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Test 12/6/10
December 6th 2010
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8th Grade
12/06/2010

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What region was "54-40 or fight" about?
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Oregon
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The mexican war started when ___?____ became a state
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Texas
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What president strongly supported the annexation of Texas?
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Polk
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We bought the ____?_____ from Mexico
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Gadsden Purchase
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The 49th parallel became the border between the U.S. and _?_
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Canada
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What type of state did Texas become (angered many northeners)
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Slave
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Who was the American General who took Veracruz and Mexico City?
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Scott
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we bought the Gadsden Purchase to get land to build a ?
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railroad
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Who was Mexicos general/president?
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SantaAnna
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What treaty ended the Mexican War?
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Guadaluape Hidalgo
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Name of Californias rebillion against Mexico during the Mexican War?
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Bear Flag Revolt
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The belief that the U.S. should spread to the Pacific coast?
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Manifest Destiny
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land we recieved as a result of the Mexican War
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Mexican Cession
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American General who helped California?
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Kearny
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General who was sent to the north bank of the Rio Grande River
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Taylor
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One fo the early Rocky Mountain fur trappers who was once attacked by a grizzly bear was?
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Jedediah Smith
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some of the first non indian to travel to the Rocky Mountains as fur trappers and explorers were known as ?
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Mountain Men
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Mountain Men got togther at an event called __?____ to trade and socialize
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rendezvous
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What trail was mostly used for trade adn had few settlers travelling on it?
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Sante Fe Trail
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Many settlers went on the _?_ trail?
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Oregan trail
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Some of the first people to go were not actually settlers but _?_
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Missionaries
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A group that travelled west to get religous freedman was ?
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Mormans
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Mormons were started by _?_
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Joseph smith
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Mormoms went west under the leadership of _?_
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Brigham Young
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The mormon tail led to the state that is now _?_
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Utah
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Mormons built a new settelment called _?_ alont the shores of Great salt Lake
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Salt Lake City
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What was the largest immigrant group in the 1800's?
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germans
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what spread easily in the unsanitary dirty crowded tenemants where many immigrants first settled?
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Disease
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What political party started due to their opposition to immigrants?
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Know-Knothing Party
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What 2 woman led the Seneca Falls Convention?
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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What word means the right to vote?
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suffrage
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Who helped make the womans rights movment into a national movement>
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Susan B Anothony
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Who did Mexico win independece in 1821?
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Spain
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Who was the Alamo defended by?
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William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crocket
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Who was the presidant of Texas when it was and INDEPENDENT COUNTRY?
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sam Houstan
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When did California Become a State?
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1850
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Abolition was?
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movement to end slavery
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what did William Lloyd Garrison do?
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published the Liberator
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the norths reason for slavery was?
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fear that ex slaves would take jobs
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What was the souths reason for slavery?>
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Salvery good for blacks better of than norths 'wage slaves' (factory workers)
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Dorothy Dix did what?
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helped the mentally ill
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The temperance movment was against what?
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alchohol
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Who was Horace Mann
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leader for free public schools
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What was the leading textbook?
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Mcguffeys reader
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Samuel Gridley Howe was for what>
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blind education
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Thomas Gallaudet was for what?
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Deaf education
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