Complete the following worksheet using your textbook to help you. The pages you should be
referencing are listed there to help you. Please be sure to complete all work on your own. This sheet
should be printed out and then completed in YOUR OWN HANDWRITING. Do not print your typed
answers, as you will not receive full credit.
PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE THREE PARTS TO THIS ASSIGNMENT!
Part 1:
Define the following words:
Whigs
Second Seminole War
Transcendentalism
Temperance Movement
Abstinence
Segregate
Utopian Community
Abolitionist Movement
Emancipation
Underground Railroad
Gag Rule
Seneca Falls Convention
Irish Potato Famine
Naturalize
Discrimination
Annex
Mexican War
Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo
Gadsden Purchase
Wilmot Proviso
Part II: Use the selected definitions from chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10 to help form your answers. For each
question or prompt you will need to answer in with at least 3-4 sentences
1. Explain the meaning of manifest destiny and how it would shape the young nation in its
expansion efforts. (pg 253)
2. What was the Spanish War for Independence? What was the Battle of the Alamo? Explain how
the growth of Americans living in Texas territory eventually led to annexation. (pgs 262-263)
3. What was the Industrial and Market Revolution in the U.S. like? What industries were included?
How did this lead to the growth of cities in the Northeast, as well as the formation of labor
unions? (pgs 272-283)
4. How was transportation revolutionized? Roads? Rivers? Canals? What was the most famous
canal to be developed at this time? How was railroad innovations born out of this era? (274-277)
5. What was the cotton belt? What was Turner’s Rebellion? How did this lead to harsher
restrictions on the slaves? Why? (pgs 285-289)
6. Explain the Second Seminole War and why it was fought. (pg 302)
7. What was the California Gold Rush? How did it help to establish areas in the west? What would
happen when areas “dried up”? (pgs 253-256)
8. What was the Transcendentalist Movement? Which great literary writers came out of this
period? Why? (pgs 311-312)
9. How did the temperance movement lead to reform in Education (by whom), Prisons and
Communities? What were utopian communities? (pgs 313-315)
10. What was Mann’s goal? (pg 314)
11. Who were the abolitionists and why were they so insistent? Did they receive any pushback?
Why? (pg 318)
12. Why was the Country of Liberia opened and who was it opened by? What was it meant to do?
What does the name mean? (Pgs 318-319)
13. Who was Fredrick Douglas? What was his goal? Why is his story unique in terms of education?
(pg 320-321)
14. What was the role of women in the abolitionist movement? How did this lead to movements
like the underground railroad? (pgs 321-323)
15. What was the Underground Railroad? Who is the credited leader of this movement? What did it
do? What were the various routes that could be taken? (pgs 322-324)
16. Why was the gag rule passed? Who were they trying to quiet? (pg 325)
17. Who was Catherine Beecher? Dorothea Dix? Elizabeth Cady Stanton? Sojourner Truth? What
movement were they part of? How were abolitionist and suffragettes similar? (327-330)
18. What did they hope to accomplish at the Seneca Falls Convention? Were they successful? (pgs
329-330)
19. How did the Irish Potato Famine increase immigration to the U.S.? How did this lead to
discrimination against the Irish and German immigrants? Why? (pgs 332-333)
20. When was Texas annexed by the U.S.? Why did this happen? Why was it controversial?
21. What was Polk’s role in the Texas territory? How did this lead to a war with Mexico? What was
the role of the Californian’s at the time? How was the war resolved? (pgs 351-353)
22. What areas were eventually taken from Mexico and given to the U.S.? (pgs 352-353)
Part III: Use the link listed below to experience what it was like to be a slave on a plantation. You are
going to travel on the Underground Railroad to hopefully escape to freedom. There are many risks that
are involved and you must be very careful. Please make sure you read all sections as you go along the
journey. Click on the different characters and touch points to get a more holistic view of the
occurrences. For each step listed below provide details (In your own writing) what the experience is
like. Once you’ve reached the end you will be prompted to answer a series of questions. This is the only
section that should be completed in typed writing. After answering the questions and prompts you will
print out the page and attach it to this packet.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/index.htm
Step 1: Click “Begin Journey”
Step 2: You’re on the plantation. Explore and learn about the roles of each person as well as their
experiences.
Step 3: Escape! You are on your way to freedom, but there are many dangers as well as many routes
that can be taken.
Step 4: You’ve reached safety, but now you are a fugitive slave which means that you are in danger, and
so are those who have helped you.
Step 5: You’ve reached freedom in the North, but are you truly free?
Step 6: Be sure to tell your story! Don’t forget this step, this is how you will share the experience (and
complete the assignment.)