Answer the Following Questions

question 43

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions :
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• A)The Old South gentry that built impressive mansions,adopted the manners and values of the English landed gentry,and feared federal government interference with their slave property.
• B)A society in which the institution of slavery affects all aspects of life.
• C)A term coined by Major Stephen H.Long in 1820 to describe the grasslands of the southern plains from the 100th meridian west to the Rocky Mountains,which he believed was "almost wholly unfit for cultivation."
• D)The 1836 defeat by the Mexican army of the Texan garrison defending the this fort in San Antonio.Newspapers urged Americans to remember this fort in a famous slogan,and American adventurers,lured by offers of land grants,flocked to Texas to join the rebel forces.
• E)Form of voting that allows the voter to enter a choice in privacy without having to submit a recognizable ballot or to voice the choice out loud to others.
• F)A form of Protestantism that was devised by Christian slaves in the Chesapeake and spread to the Cotton South as a result of the domestic slave trade.It emphasized the evangelical message of emotional conversion,ritual baptism,communal spirituality,and the idea that blacks were "children of God" and should be treated accordingly.
• G)A creole language that combined words from English and a variety of African languages in an African grammatical structure.Though it remained widespread in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry throughout the nineteenth century and is still spoken in a modified form today,Gullah did not take root in the Cotton South,where lowcountry slaves were greatly outnumbered.
• H)A system of labor common in the rice-growing regions of South Carolina in which a slave was assigned a daily task to complete and allowed to do as he wished upon its completion.
• I)A term coined by John L.O'Sullivan in 1845 to express the idea that Euro-Americans were fated by God to settle the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
• J)An emigrant route that originally led from Independence,Missouri,to the Willamette Valley in Oregon,a distance of some 2,000 miles.Alternate routes included the California Trail,the Mormon Trail,and the Bozeman Trail.Together they conveyed several hundred thousand migrants to the Far West in the 1840s,1850s,and 1860s.
• K)The elite Mexican ranchers in the province of California.
• L)Democratic candidate Governor James K.Polk's slogan in the election of 1844 calling for American sovereignty over the entire Oregon Country,stretching from California to Russian-occupied Alaska and shared with Great Britain.
• M)A short-lived republic created in California by American emigrants to sponsor a rebellion against Mexican authority in 1846.The army of this Republic was quickly absorbed into the California Battalion of the U.S.Army under the command of John C.Frémont.