Pvhs Americanus History 1 Final

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Pvhs Americanus History 1 Final

Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: Between 1810 and 1819 there were 7 major riots; in the 1830s there were ___.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: In a single decade, 1834–1844, ____ incidents of mob violence occurred in New York.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: By 1835, there were nearly _____ drinking places in New York--one for every 50 persons over the age of 15.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: In New York, the nation’s largest city, crime rose far faster than in the overall population. Between 1814 and _____, the city’s population doubled, but reports of crime quadrupled.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Introduction: During the early 19th century, poverty, lawlessness, violence, and vice appeared to be increasing at an alarming rate.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: By _____ an estimated 2 million Americans had taken the “pledge” to abstain from hard liquor.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: In _____ the nation’s first formal national temperance organization--the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance--was born.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: By _____ the typical adult American consumed more than 7 gallons of absolute alcohol a year (compared to 2.6 gallons today).

Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: Instead of taking coffee breaks, people took a dram of liquor at ___ and again at 4 o’clock as well as drinks after meals “to aid digestion” and a nightcap before going to sleep.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Moral Reform: The New York Moral Reform Society had ________ members in 1837 and branches in New England and upstate New York.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Radical Reform and Antislavery: At the present rate of progress, predicted one religious leader in 1791, within ___ years it will “be as shameful for a man to hold a Negro slave, as to be guilty of common robbery or theft.”

Pre-Civil War Reform, Radical Reform and Antislavery: As late as the ______, no church had discouraged its members from owning or trading in slaves.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Antislavery Timeline: In what year did the following occur? The Continental Congress approves a resolution prohibiting slave importations and further American participation in the slave trade.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Antislavery Timeline: In what year did the following occur? John Laurens proposes to Congress the arming of 3,000 slaves to resist a British invasion of the South; Congress approves the proposal but the South Carolina legislature rejects it.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Antislavery Timeline: In what year did the following occur? Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Women’s Rights: In ____, after the American Anti-Slavery Society split over the issue of women’s rights, the organization named three female delegates to a World Anti-Slavery Convention to be held in London later that year.

Pre-Civil War Reform, Women’s Rights: In _____ Angelina gained national notoriety by lecturing against slavery to audiences that included men as well as women.

Tragedy of the Plains Indians, A Thrity Years War: In _____, warfare spread to Colorado, after the discovery of gold led to an influx of whites.

Tragedy of the Plains Indians, The Battle of the Little Big Horn: In ______, during a meeting under a flag of truce in Fort Robinson, Nebraska, an American soldier killed Crazy Horse by stabbing him with a bayonet.

Tragedy of the Plains Indians, The Battle of the Little Big Horn: On _____ 25, 1876, Custer's scouts had observed what they thought was a retreating Indian village along the Little Big Horn River in what is now Montana.

Tragedy of the Plains Indians, Wounded Knee I: Beginning in the _____, a religious movement known as the Ghost Dance arose among Indians of the Great Basin, and then spread, in the late 1880s, to the Great Plains.

Tragedy of the Plains Indians, Wounded Knee I: In ____, Wovoka, a Paiute holy man from Nevada, had a revelation.

Tragedy of the Plains Indians, ative Americans at the turn of the century: The ____ Dawes Act allotted reservation lands to individual Indians in units of 40 to 160 acres.

Tragedy of the Plains Indians, ative Americans at the turn of the century: The ____ census recorded an Indian population of less than 225,000, and falling.

The World before 1492: Who invented writing?

The World before 1492: Who were the first farmers?

The World before 1492: Who invented paper?

The World before 1492: Who invented the axle, the drill, and the chisel?

The World before 1492: Who invented the compass and the abacus?