Goal Five Review Questions
1. What was the Missouri Compromise?
2. What was the Monroe Doctrine?
3. What treaty gave the U.S. Florida?
4. What does the term ‘nationalism’ mean? What does ‘sectionalism’ mean?
5. What was the ‘Era of Good Feelings?
6. List the three components of Henry Clay’s American System that he believed would unite the country.
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7. What agreement greatly demilitarized the Great Lakes region?
8. Name three ways that transportation improved from the 1820s to the 1840s in America.
9. What invention increased southern planters’ reliance on slaves? Who invented it and when?
10. How did Eli Whitney change the development of industry in the United States?
11. What was the factory system? In what region of the country did it first emerge?
12. What was the slave system? In what region of the country did slavery predominate?
13. Explain how the John Marshall’s decisions in the following three court cases exemplified nationalism in
the United States:
a. McCulloch v. Maryland
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b. Dartmouth College v. Woodward
c. Gibbons v. Ogden
14. Why is the election of 1824 considered a “corrupt bargain?”
15. Who was elected in 1828 with votes from the ‘common man?’ Why was he considered the “common
man’s” president?
16. What was the Spoils System? Who started it in America?
17. What was the significance of the Tariff of 1828?
18. How did South Carolina react to the “Tariff of Abominations?” What man was behind the Ordinance of
Nullification?
19. What was Jackson’s reaction to South Carolina?
20. What was Jackson’s Indian Removal Act?
21. What was Marshall’s decision in Worchester v. Georgia? How did Jackson respond?
22. What was the Trail of Tears?
23. What did Jackson do to the National Bank and why did he call it a “monster?”
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24. What was the nickname given to Jackson during his handling of the bank? Why?
25. What was the influence of the Hudson River School of artists?
26. What was the “Market Revolution?”
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Goal Six Review Questions
1. What was Manifest Destiny?
2. Why did the Mexican government invite American settlers into Texas?
3. Who led the Americans to Texas?
4. What is the empresario system?
5. Why was there ultimately a conflict between Americans in Texas and the Mexican government?
6. Why would the slogan “Remember the Alamo” be used by Texans to urge Texans to fight?
7. During the period 1836-1846, Texas was called what name?
8. What does “54 40’ or Fight” refer to? Whose slogan was it?
9. What were the causes of the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848?
10. What was the Bear Flag Revolt?
11. Who were the major generals of the Mexican War? What areas did the fight in?
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12. What treaty granted the United States the Mexican Cession?
13. How did the acquisition of Texas, Mexican Cession, and Oregon lead to a conflict between the North
and the South?
14. What discovery in California led to a massive migration of settlers into this area?
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Goal Seven Review Questions
1. Define the following terms and explain their significance:
i. Romanticism
ii. Transcendentalism
iii. Second Great Awakening
2. Who were the two most famous transcendentalist leaders? What writings were each known for?
3. What did the transcendentalists argue in favor of?
4. Who was the great revivalist preacher in the Second Great Awakening?
5. What were the teachings of the Second Great Awakening?
6. Who were the Mormons?
7. Name the two leaders of the early Mormon movement and their contributions.
8. Who was the leader of the first public education movement in the United States?
9. Who was the leader of prison reform and reform for the mentally ill?
10. What group emerged before the Civil War to oppose slavery?
11. What were utopian communities? Name two utopian communities.
12. Why did most utopian communities fail?
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13. What did Thoreau argue in his essay, “Civil Disobedience”?
14. Name three famous women’s rights supporters in the mid-1800s.
15. What event is considered the starting point of the Women’s Rights or suffrage movement?
16. What document was written at the first women’s rights convention? What did it argue?
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