Key Vocabulary
This word means “the right to vote.”
What is suffrage?
This is why reform movements grew in the 1800s: it caused new social problems.
What is industrialization?
This belief said the U.S. was “meant” to expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This British colony gained self-rule peacefully in the late 1800s.
What is Canada?
Progress didn’t benefit everyone equally because these groups were often excluded from rights.
Who are women and minorities?
This invention allowed instant long-distance communication.
What is the telegraph?
This British movement demanded voting rights for working-class men.
What is the Chartist Movement?
This forced relocation of Native Americans caused thousands of deaths.
What is the Trail of Tears?
A ______ is a self-governing country within the British Empire.
What is a dominion?
Name one way technology improved life in the 1800s (from the study guide).
What is faster communication / improved transportation / increased production?
Define this: a self-governing country within the British Empire.
What is a dominion?
This women’s rights leader was a major reform voice in the 1800s.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This major war was caused mainly by disagreement over slavery.
What is the American Civil War?
Britain often allowed these colonies to govern themselves (but denied it to others).
What are white settler colonies?
One effect of U.S. westward expansion was more land/power for the U.S., but this happened to Native Americans.
What is Native Americans were forced off their land?
This British movement demanded political reforms like expanding the vote.
What is the Chartist Movement?
Give one example of how democratic ideas expanded in the 1800s.
What is the expansion of voting rights / women’s rights movements / democratic reform?
This group was forced off their land during westward expansion.
Who are Native Americans?
Britain treated settler colonies differently by giving them this (that many others did not get).
What is self-rule?
Give one example of inequality that still existed as democracy expanded.
What is women’s lack of voting rights / mistreatment of Native Americans / slavery?
In one sentence: define Manifest Destiny.
The belief the U.S. was meant or destined to expand west
In 1–2 sentences, explain why progress didn’t benefit everyone equally in the 1800s.
What is progress did not benefit everyone equally because women, minorities, and other groups were excluded from rights and opportunities?
In 1–2 sentences, explain one effect of westward expansion in the U.S.
What is westward expansion increased U.S. land and power but caused suffering and displacement of Native Americans?
In 1–2 sentences, explain how Britain treated settler colonies differently.
What is Britain allowed white settler colonies to govern themselves but denied this to others?
EXTENDED RESPONSE: Explain how democracy expanded and inequality still existed. Use two examples.
What is democracy expanded through voting rights, reform movements, or self-rule, while inequality continued through the treatment of women, Native Americans, or enslaved people.