Vocabulary:
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Indian Removal Act
Spoils System
Worcester v. Georgia
Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations)
Doctrine of Nullification
Whig Party
Panic of 1837
Manifest Destiny
Mountain Men
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Missouri Compromise
Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
Lincoln-Douglass Debate
Dred Scot v. Sanford
Fort Sumter
Conscription
Battle of Gettysburg
Siege of Vicksburg
Ironclad
The Monitor
Total War
Appomattox Court House
Battle at the Alamo
Fugitive Slave Law
Reconstruction
Suffrage
Caucus
Platform
Expansionism
Annexation
Ostend Manifesto
Bull Run
Antietam
Blockade
National Road
Patriarchal System
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Lowell Mills
Erie Canal
Market Revolution
Putting-out System
American Labor Movement
Temperance Movement
Revivals
Seneca Falls Convention
Underground Railroad
California Gold Rush
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Emancipation Proclamation
Big City Machines
Important People:
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Andrew Jackson
Cherokee Indians
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglass
Santa Anna
Davy Crockett
Sam Houston
John Slidell
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Mormons
James K. Polk
John Tyler
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Dorothea Dix
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Buchanan
Questions:
1. What were the provisions of the Spoils System?
2. How could Andrew Jackson be best described?
3. What state were Native Americans forced to relocate to due to the Indian Removal Act?
4. How did Cherokee Indians react to the forced migration to the West?
5. What percentage tax was put on imported goods because of the Tariff of Abominations?
6. What did Daniel Webster say in his speech to the Senate?
7. What was South Carolina’s reaction to Jackson lowering the tariff in 1832?
8. What institution does Jackson not agree with and why?
9. What was the alternate name of the National Republican Party who opposed Andrew Jackson?
10. Why did Americans venture west? (Should be at least 3 reasons)
11. Why did Americans feel welcomed into Mexican territory after years of opposition?
12. Why did pioneers go to Texas?
13. Why were there tensions between Mexico and the United States?
14. What happened at the Alamo?
15. Which individuals were involved in the Battle at the Alamo?
16. What was the reason that John Slidell went to Mexico in 1845?
17. What was the major source of income for the South pre-Civil War?
18. How did native-born Americans response to the increase of immigrants?
19. What were the facts surrounding the case of Dred Scot v. Sanford?
20. What advantages did the Union have in the beginning of the Civil War?
21. What was the original goal of the Union at the beginning of the Civil War?
22. How did Jefferson Davis respond to being elected president of the Confederacy?
23. What was Grant’s philosophy of war during the Civil War?
24. How many people died in the Civil War?
25. Who had control over 80% of the nation's economy at the beginning of the Civil War?
26. What was the goal of the invasion of Maryland in September of 1862 for the Confederacy?
27. Why were improvements to transportation necessary in the early 1800s?
28. Due to industrialization what things did the “common man” begin to enjoy?
29. Why were there strikes in the 1820’s & 1830’s?
30. What were the values promoted by the middle-class during the Market Revolution?
31. What did immigrants do in America as they began to settle in the early 1800s?
32. What was one of the effects of the rapid growth of cities in the early 1800s?
33. What was the goal of social reformers?
34. How did the emergence of public education change life in America in the early 1800s?
35. What was the first college to admit African American and female students?
36. Explain how the mentally ill were treated in the United States during the early 1800s?
37. Who were considered expansionist presidents?
38. What country occupied the Oregon Territory with the United States?
39. What was the Free Soil Movement?
40. What were the components of the Compromise of 1850?
41. Who first proposed the Compromise of 1850?
42. Why did South Carolina push to secede from the Union?