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Unit 3 Study Sheet
Describe the following persons:
Andrew Jackson
David Walker
Stephen F. Austin
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Juan Seguin
Charles Grandison Finney
Joseph Smith
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dorothea Dix
Samuel F. B. Morse
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stephen A. Douglas
Zachary Taylor
Brigham Young
Abraham Lincoln
Van Buren
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Charles Sumner
James Buchanan
Walt Whitman
John Brown
the Grimke sisters
Horace Mann
John C. Breckinridge
Define/Explain the following terms:
Popular Sovereignty
Tejanos
Peggy Eaton Affair
Revivalism
Transcendentalists
Forty-niners
Force bill
Gag Rule
Election of 1840
Free-Soil Party
Whigs
Amistad
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Nullification Crisis
Nicholas Biddle and the “Bank War”
“spoils system”
Wilmot Proviso
“Tippecanoe and Tyler, too”
Promised Land-Negro Sermons
Free Blacks
The American Colonization Society
Bleeding Kansas
Fort Sumter
Kansas-Nebraska Bill
Dred Scott Case
Harper’s Ferry
Panic of 1857
Yeoman Farmer’s
filibustering
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The American Anti-Slavery Society
Mormon migration
Gadsden Purchase
Seneca Falls Convention
Manifest Destiny
Oneida Association
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Know-Nothings
Election of 1860
Short Essay: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.
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Discuss Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy?
Explain what the 1828 Tariff of Abominations was?
What was the “Cult of Domesticity” or the “Cult of True Womanhood?”
Over what issue did abolitionists disagree? What was the result of this
disagreement?
Long Essay: Please answer the following questions in two or more paragraphs.
1. Many southerners’ claimed that slavery was necessary and good, while most
northerners disagreed. Explain their respective attitudes?
2. Discuss what life was like on the plantation for black slaves according to your
textbook and your Jacobs monograph? Include characteristics of slave families,
kinship and community.
3. Detail Texas’ progress from Mexican rule to independence and finally annexation
by the United States in 1846.
4. How was the concept of internal expansion relative to the United States in 1830’s
and 1840’s? Explain why the United States went to war with Mexico in 1846?