Democratic-Republican Dominance and Westward Expansion
Study Guide
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions in short form.
1. Whom did the American people elect as president in 1800?
2. In what election was power peacefully transferred for the first time from one political party to
another?
3. Which political party dominated American politics for the twenty years following the 1800 election?
4. Who followed Thomas Jefferson as president?
5. On what country did Congress declare war during Madison’s presidency?
6. What war occurred during Madison’s presidency?
7. What four things did the American republic experience after the War of 1812?
8. Where did thousands of Americans move before the Civil War?
9. What factors caused the United States to expand its territory to the Pacific Ocean before the Civil
War.
10. What did Thomas Jefferson purchase during his presidency?
11. From what country did Jefferson purchase the Louisiana Territory?
12. How the Louisiana Purchase affect the size of the United States?
13. Whom did President Jefferson send to explore the new territories that lay west of the Mississippi
River?
14. What American Indian woman served as the guide and translator for the Lewis and Clark expedition?
15. What two European countries were at war during Jefferson’s presidency?
16. How did the United States become indirectly involved in the Napoleonic War between France and
Great Britain?
17. Why did France and Great Britain interfere with American trade?
18. Why did the British stop and board American ships?
19. Define impressment.
20. How did the Jefferson administration respond to impressment of American sailors?
21. What does embargo mean?
22. For what two things did the Embargo Act provide?
23. What was the Embargo Act’s effect on the United States?
24. Which region of the United States was most hurt by the Embargo Act and why was this true?
25. Which political party gained increasing popular support by criticizing the Embargo Act?
26. What was the Federalist Party’s position on the Embargo Act?
27. What did state governments in New England threaten to do in regard to the Embargo Act?
28. What does it mean to nullify a law?
29. What action did James Madison take regarding the Embargo Act, once he became president?
30. How did Madison’s Non-Intercourse Act differ from Jefferson’s Embargo Act?
31. Explain why the Non-Intercourse Act was almost as big a failure as the Embargo Act.
32. What two factors encouraged young congressmen from the West to call for a declaration of war
against Great Britain?
33. What was the name of this group of young Western congressmen?
34. What did the War Hawks believe the British were encouraging on the western frontier?
35. Who led the War Hawks?
36. What two things did the War Hawks hope would result from an American victory in a war against Great
Britain?
37. What action did the Madison administration finally take against Great Britain?
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What are the dates of the War of 1812?
How did regional self-interests affect the nation during the War of 1812?
How did Federalists in New England respond to Madison’s request for a declaration of war?
What was the result of Federalist criticism of the War of 1812?
Did the War of 1812 produce any major changes?
Did American public opinion believe the United States had achieved victory over the British in the War
of 1812?
What two things resulted from the American belief that the United States had won the War of 1812?
What was the Adams-Onís Treaty?
What issue continued to concern the United States during the next decade?
When did the United States government issue the Monroe Doctrine?
What was the long-term effect of the Monroe Doctrine?
What were the four important point of the Monroe Doctrine?
What continents are in the Western Hemisphere?
Define the term republic.
Define the term monarchy.
How have American presidents responded to the Monroe Doctrine’s idea that the United States would
regard as a threat to its own peace and safety any attempt by European powers to impose their system
of government on any independent state in the Western Hemisphere?
In short, what warning did the Monroe Doctrine give European nations?
If European leaders tried to influence or control the governments of Latin American nations, how would
the United States react?
According to the Monroe Doctrine, what would the United States government use to protect its power
and interests in the Western Hemisphere?
As indicated by the American purchase of Louisiana and Florida and interest in Oregon, what were two
trends in American life during the first half of the nineteenth century?
Into what regions of the United States did American settlers move during the first half of the
nineteenth century?
Why did Americans migrate (move) during the first half of the nineteenth century?
What two developments in transportation speeded up the growth of an industrial economy and
supported the westward movement of settlers?
In what year was the cotton gin invented, and for what was the cotton gin used?
Who invented the cotton gin?
What effect did the invention of the cotton gin have on the Deep South?
What resulted from American migration into Texas?
What happened at the Battle of the Alamo?
What did the Texans gain, when they later defeated the Mexican army?
For how long was Texas an independent country?
What action did the United States take in regard to Texas in 1845?
What does annexation mean?
What American belief provided political support for the territorial expansion of the Untied States?
Define the term “Manifest Destiny.”
What were the dates of the Mexican War, and what two countries were involved?
Who won the Mexican War?
What was the result of the Mexican War?
Define the term Mexican Cession.
What territory did the Mexican Cession include?
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