Expansion & Manifest Destiny
This idea claimed the United States had a God-given right to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This law tried to keep the balance between free and slave states by splitting Missouri and Maine.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Marbury v. Madison granted what power to the judicial branch?
What is Judicial Review
This system kept many freedmen in poverty after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
This religious movement inspired many reform efforts in the 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Explain one reason why the United States wanted to expand westward in the 1800s.
access to land, resources, economic opportunity, or spreading democracy
Explain why the expansion of slavery into new territories caused conflict.
upset balance of power, economic differences, moral disagreements
Explain what made the Election of 1800 significant.
first peaceful transfer of power between political parties
Explain one cause of the Market Revolution in the early 1800s.
New transportation (canals/railroads), technology, expansion of markets
Explain one goal of the women’s rights movement in the 1800s.
voting rights, property rights, equality
This event led to the United States gaining California and the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Supreme Court decision said African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This law allowed settlers to decide the issue of slavery, leading to violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Explain how the growth of railroads changed the U.S. economy.
-created a national market by allowing goods to move quickly and cheaply
-increasing trade
-connecting regions
-promoting industrial growth
This 1848 meeting focused on women’s rights and equality.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Explain one consequence of westward expansion for Native Americans.
forced relocation, loss of land, assimilation, violence, Trail of Tears
Explain what “popular sovereignty” meant in the context of slavery.
people in a territory vote on slavery
Explain the compromise that ended Reconstruction.
federal troops removed from South in exchange for Hayes becoming president
What is the Panic of 1819?
An economic crisis in 1819 that caused widespread unemployment and bank failures.
written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it opened Northerners eyes to the horrors of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This migration event in 1848 caused a rapid population increase in California.
What is the California Gold Rush?
The Supreme Court case that declared separate facilities did not violate the Constitution as long as they were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Protective tariffs that favored Northern industry while hurting the Southern agricultural economy caused what event?
What is the Nullification Crisis
Explain one way in which industrialization increased inequality in the United States.
wealth gap, poor working conditions vs wealthy owners
What are the three Reconstruction Amendments and what do they do?
13th Amendment - Ends slavery in the United States
14th Amendment - Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen & States must provide equal protection under the law
15th Amendment - Cannot deny the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude