Study Guide Goal 2 and Goal 4 Part 1
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What was the Louisiana Purchase and who made it?
What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition,
who helped them, and what did it accomplish?
What conflict happened in Spanish Florida, and who was it
between?
What did Andrew Jackson do in Spanish Florida?
What did the Adams-Onis Treaty establish?
Who was the 5th President? Describe his famous foreign
policy.
What did the Missouri Compromise do, and he
“engineered” it?
Define industrialization.
What did John Deere invent? What did Cyrus McCormick
invent? Eli Whitney?
How did the cotton gin change life in the South?
What was the Erie Canal and why were canals important?
Define sectionalism.
Name three parts of Henry Clay’s American System.
What is the purpose of a protective tariff?
What are “internal improvements”, and why did the South
dislike them?
How did the cases of McCulloch vs. Maryland and Gibbons
v. Ogden further divide the United States population
(increase tensions of sectionalism)?
Describe what happened in the Election of 1824 and
explain why Andrew Jackson called it a “corrupt bargain”.
What two political parties started as a result of the Election
of 1824?
What changes in suffrage helped Jackson win the 1828
election?
What was the Tariff of Abominations?
What is nullification?
How did Jackson react to South Carolina’s ordinance of
nullification?
How was the Nullification crisis solved, and what did this
event foreshadow?
What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 do?
What was the ruling of Worcester vs. Georgia, and how did
Jackson react to it?
Describe the “Trail of Tears”.
Describe Jackson’s relationship with the Second National
Bank.
Describe the two main ways that people viewed Jackson.
What are “pet banks”?
What happened in the Panic of 1837?
Who won the election of 1840, and what happened about a
month after inauguration?
What two main groups of immigrants came to the US
between 1815 and 1860?
What is nativism?
Who were the “Know-Nothings”?
What was the Second Great Awakening?
What did Mormons believe, and how did the rest of the
country react to them?
What did Transcendentalists believe?
What was the Hudson River School?
Why is Dorothea Dix important?
Why is Horace Mann important?
What was the purpose of the temperance movement?
Why is the Seneca Falls Convention important?
What rights were demanded at the Seneca Falls
Convention, and for whom?
What is abolitionism?
What did Nat Turner do?
46. How did the North react to abolitionism? How did the
South react?
47. What does “Manifest Destiny” mean?
48. Who led the Mormons West, and where did they end up?
49. What did Mexico do to gain population in the Texas area?
50. What happened as a result of Mexico making immigration
into Texas easy?
51. Why did Stephen Austin urge Texans to organize an army?
52. Why was Sam Houston important?
53. What makes the battle at the Alamo significant?
54. What happened at the Battle of San Jacinto?
55. What did “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” mean?
56. How did the United States gain the Oregon Territory?
57. The annexation of Texas caused tension between what two
countries?
58. Why did President Polk want Mexico to “fire the first
shot”?
59. Why did some people, like Frederick Douglass, oppose the
Mexican War?
60. What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
61. Why did people rush to California in 1849, and what were
they called?
62. What was the Comstock Lode?
63. What was “open range” and how was it affected by the
invention of barbed wire?
64. What was the purpose of cattle drives?
65. How did the Homestead Act entice settlers to move to the
Great Plains?
66. What were the terms of the Morrill Land Grant Act?
67. What happened at the Oklahoma Land Rush?
68. What were sod houses?
69. What became a popular idea as more people began to live
out West?
70. What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase, and what
did it purchase?
71. Where did the Transcontinental Railroad’s route finally go?
72. What two groups were majorly responsible for building the
Transcontinental Railroad?
73. What is significant about Promontory Point?
74. How did settlers treat buffalo, and how did this affect
Native Americans?
75. Describe the living conditions on Native American
reservations.
76. What happened at the Sand Creek Massacre?
77. What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn? How would
the United States react to this battle? What would be the
fate of the American Indians?
78. What was the reaction to the Battle of Little Bighorn?
79. What is Chief Joseph’s famous quote?
80. What was the Ghost Dance, and why was it outlawed?
81. Who was the Chief of the Lakota (who had beaten Custer
earlier and then lost at Wounded Knee)?
82. What was the title of Helen Hunt Jackson’s book, and what
did it talk about?
83. What is assimilation?
84. What did the Dawes Act do, and did it work?
85. What did Frederick Jackson Turner write, and what did it
say?