Use the list to answer the question. • Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) ​ • Josiah Henson, The Life of Josiah Henson (1849) ​ • Henry Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851) ​ • Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853) ​ • James Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849) What BEST describes the authors of the works on this list?

It is the duty of a government, to do all in its power to promote the present and future prosperity of the nation, over which it is placed. This prosperity will depend on the character of its citizens. . . . If this is the case, then it is the duty of our present legislators to begin now, to form the characters of the next generation, by controlling that of the females, who are to be their mothers. . . . ​ —Emma Willard, A Plan for Improving Female Education, 1819 Emma Willard argues that the education of women supports which traditional American value?

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance wheel of the social machinery. . . .The greatest of all the arts in political economy is to change a consumer into a producer; and the next greatest is to increase the producing power,—and this to be directly obtained by increasing his intelligence. Excerpt from Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education as Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1848

Use the list of events to answer the question that follows. 1831 – William Lloyd Garrison began publishing The Liberator 1845 – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass published 1852 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin published by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1859 – John Brown arrested after leading a raid at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia This list identifies events that were important in the movement for what goal?

Use the information to answer the question that follows. From the 1790s to the 1830s, a religious movement called the Second Great Awakening influenced American society. Methodists and Baptists were the leading religious groups in this revival, but members of other religious groups were affected, as well. Thousands attended camp meetings, where preachers led people in prayer. Many of the social reform movements of that time—such as the abolitionism and temperance—were led by people inspired by their religious experiences as a result of this movement. Which statement BEST explains how American democracy made the Second Great Awakening possible?

The influence of the Second Great Awakening is demonstrated by this excerpt because citizens were expected to Democracy is self-government, and can never be safe or useful except . . . to enforce by the power of public sentiment, the practice of those virtues which are indispensable to the highest good of any community. —Charles Grandison Finney, 1851

Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows. NONE BUT AMERICANS FOR OFFICE Such is one of the planks of our platform . . . . America, we take it, is the land of Americans. It is theirs. Its offices, its destiny, its genius, its laws, institutions, should all be in their hands and keeping. Not an office in this whole land should be filled by any but Americans. There is a full supply. They are capable. They are intelligent, patriotic and all that. Then where is the logic, justice, even decency, of permitting foreigners to hold these places. —The Know-Nothing: and American Crusader, July 29, 1854 What viewpoint is expressed in this excerpt?

Use the information in the table to answer the question that follows. Rebellions and Conspiracies in America Event Year Location The Stono Rebellion 1739 South Carolina Gabriel’s Rebellion 1800 Virginia Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy 1822 South Carolina Nat Turner’s Revolt 1831 Virginia

Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows. AMERICAN PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES ADOPTED AT PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1856 . . . 3. Americans must rule America, and to this end native-born citizens should be selected for all State, Federal, and municipal offices of government employment, in preference to all others. . . . 9. A change in the laws of naturalization, making a continued residence of twenty-one years, of all not heretofore provided for, an indispensable requisite for citizenship hereafter, and excluding all paupers, and persons convicted of crime, from landing upon our shores; but no interference with the vested rights of foreigners. —The True American’s Almanac and Politician’s Manual for 1857 The points of this platform represent the political goals of what party?

Why did Andrew Jackson’s administration support the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states?

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual. —Margaret Fuller, c. 1840 Based upon the quote, which action would be MOST supported by Transcendentalists such as Margaret Fuller?

. Use the information to answer the question that follows. In 1848, people gathered at a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss equal rights for women. In her opening speech, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, “we are assembled to protest against a form of government existing without the consent of the governed.” The convention later wrote and adopted a “Declaration of Sentiments” that stated, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal . . . .” It also declared, “We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the state and national legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf.” The Seneca Falls Convention demonstrates the importance of what feature of a constitutional republic?

Use the excerpt to answer the question. Every member of every Northern legislature is bound by oath, like every other officer in the country, to support the Constitution of the United States; and the article of the Constitution which says to these States that they shall deliver up fugitives from service is as binding in honor and conscience as any other article. ​ —Daniel Webster, “Seventh of March” speech, 1850 Which issue caused Daniel Webster to make the remarks in this speech?

. Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. . . . The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory. . . . What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852 What understanding did Frederick Douglass wish to convey in his speech, What to a Slave is the Fourth of July

. Use the list below to answer the question that follows. Legislation of the ​ Radical Reconstruction Congress • Civil Rights Act of 1866 • Reconstruction Act of 1867 • Habeas Corpus Act of 1867 • Fourteenth Amendment What was the MAIN purpose of this legislation?

How did President Thomas Jefferson overcome his doubts about the constitutionality of purchasing Louisiana from France?

Use the list to answer the question that follows. • Three-Fifths Compromise (1787) • Missouri Compromise (1820) • Compromise of 1850 • Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) These legislative decisions were intended to address which concern?

Use the information to answer the question that follows. In the 1832 Worcester v. Georgia case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was a distinct community that had rights similar to the rights of a foreign country. Chief Justice John Marshall argued that the state and national governments’ interactions with the Cherokee had to respect those rights. President Andrew Jackson disagreed with the Supreme Court’s decision. He refused to order troops to leave Cherokee territory and worked instead to force the Cherokee to leave Georgia. Which statement BEST describes the significance of President Andrew Jackson’s response to the Supreme Court’s decision?

Which of the following statements was included in the Supreme Court decision of Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)?