Westward Expansion 1
What do we call the idea that the United States is entitled to the land to the West?
Manifest Destiny
What were 2 of the major economic activities in the West?
2 of the following: Mining, agriculture, railroads
What is the abolition movement about?
The abolition of slavery
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which highlighted many of the struggles and hardships of slavery?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is suffrage?
The right to vote
Which land acquisition doubled the size of the United States and gave control of the Mississippi River?
Louisiana Purchase
How were Native Americans affected by Westward Expansion?
They were moved to reservations in the West or killed.
What was the Temperance Movement about?
Limiting the consumption of alcohol
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were members of which group that focused on nature and individualism?
Transcendentalists
What is nativism?
Anti-immigrant
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Which land acquisition included border disputes that turned into a war?
Texas
What was Dorothea Dix known for?
Prison and hospital reform
Much of the literature and songs from this era were about what topic?
Reform movements, specifically abolition
How did Frederick Douglas contribute to abolition?
He published an abolitionist newspaper and shared his personal accounts from when he was enslaved.
How did the Missouri Compromise help ease sectional tensions, at least for a while?
It maintained a balance of slave and non-slave states.
Which land acquisition made the Mexican Cession more accessible?
Gadsden Purchase
How did industrialization help cause the Reform Era?
Many of the reforms such as the labor movement, women's rights, and abolition were caused by the negatives of industrialization such as long hours, dangerous conditions, and low pay.
The Hudson River School helped develop an American identity that focused on what?
Landscapes, nature
Who helped reform education by advocating for public schools and required attendance?
Horace Mann
Which section of our country was added in order to complete the Southern Transcontinental railroad?
The Gadsden Purchase
What was the law that gave free land to settlers as long as they promised to move there and settle it?
The Homestead Act
What did we call the religious revival that inspired people to improve society and themselves?
Second Great Awakening
What did we call the movement of writers and thinkers that focused on nature and morals rather than logic?
Transcendentalism
What was the Declaration of Sentiments arguing for?
Women's rights