VA & U.S. History
Due Date – Friday, 10-9-15
Unit 5: The Young Republic (Chapters 6 & 7)
Standards of Learning: VUS.5e, .6 & .7a/b
This sheet is your study guide and homework for Unit 5. Studying the terms & questions below,
as well as, the ability to explain the following concepts are necessary to do well on the Unit 5
Test. Remember for each term and concept to cover the 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, and
why) along with the 1 H (how) when studying and answering. Identify/define the following terms
& concepts and answer the homework questions on a separate sheet of paper and hand in the on
the 9th. A completed study guide/home work assignment is worth 5 points on the Unit 5 Test.
Key people, places and things to know & define for this unit:
Daniel Webster
Know-Nothings
Frederick Douglass
Cyrus McCormick
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
General Santa Anna
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
John C. Frémont
Mexican War
William Henry Harrison
John C. Calhoun
National Colonization Act
American Colonization Society
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
William Lloyd Garrison
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention
2nd Great Awakening
Indian Removal Act
Tariff of Abominations
Bear Flag Republic
Sojourner Truth
Stephen Austin
Winfield Scott
empresarios
Sam Houston
Transcendentalism
Santa Fe Trail
Manifest Destiny
Panic of 1837
Trail of Tears
utopia
Tejanos
cede
envoy
Alamo
mestizo
squatters
abolition
suffrage
nativism
secede
John Sutter
annexation
nullification
secularize
Kit Carson
vaquero
overlander
emancipation
romanticism
temperance
spoils system
Key Concepts:
1. Describe politics under President Andrew Jackson then analyze the term “Jacksonian
Democracy.” How democratic was the time period and is the cartoon of Jackson on
page 271 a fair representation of his time in office?
2. How did the system of checks and balances fail during the handling of the Indian
Removal Act and the Trail of Tears?
3. Explain how the United States dealt with Mexicans and Native Americans in our
quest to fulfill our “Manifest Destiny?” (Use specific examples to support your
response).
4. Outline the reform movements that targeted women’s suffrage and the abolition of
slavery. How far had the political process evolved from the Election of 1800?
Home Work:
Chapters 6 & 7 Assessments, pages 249-251 & pages 277-279 (41 Questions Total)