Unit 5 Test Review:
Group Challenge
Unit 5 Review
■Groups will be presented a prompt
& will list as many correct answers
as possible within 1 minute
–Groups earn 1 point per correct
response
–If any part of the response is
incorrect, teams receive no
points for that round
■The winning group earns 105,
others earn 100, 95, 90, 85…
Prompt
Answer these questions:
■Name 2 of the major westward
trails.
■List 3 reasons for Manifest
Destiny.
Answers
■The Oregon Trail, The Santa-Fe
Trail, the Mormon Trek and the
California Trail
■The Louisiana Purchase,
economic potential in the western
territories, improved
transportation, growth in
population
Prompt
Identify these people:
#1 William Lloyd Garrison
#2 Frederick Douglass
#3 John Brown
#4 Dred Scott
#5 Harriet Beecher Stowe
#1 Garrison: Abolitionist; American Anti-Slavery
Society; The Liberator; Immediate emancipation
#2 Douglass: Abolitionist; Former slave; The
North Star newspaper
#3 John Brown: Abolitionist from VA; Harper’s
Ferry Raid; Martyr who died to free slaves
#4 Dred Scott: Slave who sued for freedom;
Supreme Court declared Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional; Slavery open to all
#5 Stowe: abolitionist; wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Prompt
Identify these sectional events:
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
Nullification Crisis of 1832
Wilmot Proviso of 1848
Popular Sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Presidential Election of 1860
#1 Nullification: Issue over tariffs; South argued
that tariffs benefitted only North; Calhoun from
SC threatened nullification & secession
#2 Wilmot Proviso: failed proposal to limit
slavery from areas of Mexican Cession
#3 Pop Sov: “people vote”; allowed residents
of a territory to decide on slavery or not
#4 Kansas-Neb: Law that gave popular
sovereignty to Kansas; Removed the Missouri
Compromise line (36°30’); Led to Bleeding
Kansas; Made South happy
#5 1860 election: Republican Lincoln won
without a single Southern vote; SC seceded
Prompt
Name at least 2 parts of each
sectional compromise
#1 Missouri Compromise of 1820
#2 Compromise of 1850
#1 Missouri Compromise of 1820:
Missouri is slave state
Maine a free state
Slavery outlawed above 36°30’ line
#2 Compromise of 1850:
California is a free state
Popular sovereignty in New Mexico & Utah
No slave trade in Washington DC
Strict fugitive slave law—this made
Northern abolitionists really mad
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
Prompt
Identify these terms
Sectionalism
Manifest Destiny
Secession
Cession
Free-Soil Party
Antebellum
#1 Sectionalism: division between North &
South; Putting interests of a region over nation
#2 Man Destiny: Desire to spread West from
Atlantic to Pacific; “Obvious future”
#3 Secession: Break away from the USA; Like SC
did after Lincoln’s election
#4 Cession: To give up land; Like Mexico did
during the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
#5 Free-Soil: People who want to stop the
spread of slavery into the West, but who do not
think Congress can take away peoples’ property
#6 Antebellum: “Before the war”; Era from 1800
to 1860 (or 1820-1860)
Prompt
Compare the North & South
North
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
South
Specialized regional economy?
Transportation?
Types of workers?
States rights or national gov’t?
Political party by 1856?
North
South
■ Industry; Textiles
■ King Cotton
Economy?
■ Roads, Canals,Transportation?
RRs
■ Little transp.; Rivers
■ Hired workers:
■ Slave labor
Types of Workers?
Women; Immigrants
■ Strong national gov’t ■ States’ Rights
Government?
(tariffs, BUS, transp.)
(nullification)
Political Party?
■ Republican Party
■ Democratic Party
Prompt
Manifest Destiny:
How did the USA acquire each?
#1 Texas in 1845
#2 Oregon in 1846
#3 Mexican Cession in 1848
#4 California in 1848
#1 Texas: Annexed 9 years after Texas gained
independence from Mexico (Texas Revolution)
#2 Oregon: Treaty with Britain to settle border
at 49° rather than 54°40’ (“54°40’ or fight!”)
#3 Mexican Cession: Lands in SW gained in
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo after MexicanAmerican War (War caused by territorial border
dispute in Texas between USA & Mexico)
#4 California: Broke from Mexico during
Mexican-Am War; Annexed by USA; Included as
part of Mexican Cession; Became a state during
Compromise of 1850
Prompt
Name 1 thing about each rebellion
#1
#2
#3
#4
Bacon’s Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
Nat Turner Rebellion
(1676)
(1787)
(1794)
(1831)
#1 Bacon’s: Poor Virginia colonists attacked by
Indians; Wanted protection from VA’s governor;
Revealed the power of the elite in colonial era
#2 Shays’: Poor MA farmers used violence to
keep their farms from being foreclosed; Nat’l
gov’t couldn’t stop it; Revealed weakness of AOC
#3 Whiskey: Poor PA farmers didn’t want to
pay tax during Washington’s presidency; Rebels
put down by GW; Showed power of nat’l gov’t
#4 Nat Turner: Slave rebellion; Killed 60 whites;
Southerners reacted with harsher treatment of
their slaves