Unit 5 Review cards. Reform, Industry, and Westward Expansion

Question 1

Define Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

America’s destiny to stretch across the entire continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. (Westward Expansion)

Question 2

What did President Polk do?

Answer 2

Brought in lots of land to accomplish Manifest Destiny.

Question 3

Define Gold Rush

Answer 3

Many people moved to California in search of Gold. (49ers)

Question 4

Mass production

Answer 4

Factories made bulk and it made it easier for products to be made quicker.

Question 5

Define Reform

Answer 5

A movement that helps society

Question 6

Define suffrage

Answer 6

Women’s right to vote

Question 7

Define Union

Answer 7

Labor group trying to get reform

Question 8

Define Urbanization

Answer 8

Moving to a city

Question 9

Define the Free Enterprise System

Answer 9

Market economy. People get to choose the price. People can buy, sell, and trade.

Question 10

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 10

-Doubled the Size of the U.S. overnight
- Gained land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
- Gave control over the Port of New Orleans

Question 11

Texas Annexation

Answer 11

If Texas was annexed it would create unbalance between slave and free states. Texas was annexed on December 29, 1845. North did not want Texas but the South did because of slavery.

Question 12

Florida Cession (Adam Onis-Treaty)

Answer 12

-U.S. argued with Spain to gain Florida
-The U.S. thought that Florida as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
-The U.S. captured Spanish forts so Spain gave up claims about Florida.
-Gained Florida in 1819
-Control entire Atlantic Coast

Question 13

Mexican War/Mexican Cession

Answer 13

-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended war
-War started because of Texas’s annexation
-Fought over the border line of Texas
-Treaty gave the U.S. parts of California and New Mexico
-War ended in 1848
-Helped America expand west

Question 14

Oregon Territory

Answer 14

-Acquired by treaty signed with Britain and U.S. in 1846. It gave the U.S. all of Oregon land south of the 49th parallel
-President Polk wanted more land to fulfill Manifest Destiny
-Britain and U.S. fought over border

Question 15

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 15

-IN 1853 the U.S. completed it’s expansion towards the southwest with the Purchase.
-Purchase was an agreement to buy a strip of land that could be used to build a railroad from the South to the Pacific Coast
-James Gadsden was responsible for the deal
-He agreed to pay 10 million $for the land that was almost as big as Pennsylvania

Question 16

Mormon Trail

Answer 16

Who - large groups of settler and mormons
Why - to search for religious freedom and not face persecution
Where - Salt Lake City Utah

Question 17

Oregon Trail

Answer 17

Who - farmers and settlers
Why - moved for cheaper land
Where - Oregon Country

Question 18

Horace Mann

Answer 18

-campaigned for better, free, and public education
-he was from Massachusetts
-he made an elementary school for children free and compulsory
-he introduced the first schools to train teachers

Question 19

Dorothea Dix

Answer 19

-Fought for better prison conditions and for better hospitality for the mentally ill

Question 20

Fredrick Douglas

Answer 20

-abolitionist, author, newspaper editor
-Spoke out powerfully in the open against slavery and racism

Question 21

Harriet Tubman

Answer 21

-helped the Underground Railroad
-escaped slavery in 1849
-returned to her family and helped them escape slavery as well
-was a scout, spy, and nurse in the CIvil War

Question 22

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 22

-mother of four
-fought for women’s rights

Question 23

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 23

-spoke out and protested for women’s rights

Question 24

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 24

-Wrote UNcle Tom’s Cabin that showed how harsh slavery was
- her book energized anti-slavery forces in the Northern states, while causing widespread anger in the Southern states

Question 25

Sojourner Truth

Answer 25

-Isabella Baumfree
-She ran away from slavery in 1827
-became a preacher then changed her name in 1843
-she helped anti-slavery movements and was also involved with women’s rights and the bWomen’s Rights Convention.

Question 26

Temperance emovement

Answer 26

-Banned Alcohol

Question 27

Education reform

Answer 27

Helped get education for the poor and wealthy so that children could learn together
-introduced teacher training school as well

Question 28

Abolitionism

Answer 28

-The ban of slavery

Question 29

Women’s Rights

Answer 29

• women weren’t treated equally to men
• women protested for many rights involving jobs, and voting.
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  -Susan B. Anthony
  -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  -Lucretia Mott
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  | All protested for rights

Question 30

Prison/hospital reform

Answer 30

• helped get better prison conditions
• helped get better living conditions for the mentally ill
  -asylums were built

Question 31

Labor reform

Answer 31

-helped get better working conditions
-helped workers get better pay
-helped children stop working

Question 32

The second great awakening

Answer 32

-made people think that they could be revived through mass religious meetings.
-creation of Methodist church
-stimulated many reform movements

Question 33

Underground raiload

Answer 33

-Secret system with safe houses for slaves that ran away and needed to get away from there masters when there was a bounty on there head.

Question 34

Differences between the north and south

Answer 34

North:
* had more factories to create mass production

South:
* relied more on agricultural factors and used slaves for work

Question 35

Steel plow

Answer 35

broke up tough soil, buried crop residue, and helped control weeds

Question 36

Telegraph

Answer 36

Helped communicate faster over longer distances

Question 37

Cotton gin

Answer 37

Separated the sticky cotton seeds from the actual fibers used in clothing.
- made it easier for mass production

Question 38

Steam engine

Answer 38

Large engine that helped power trains, boats, and factories

Question 39

Steam boat

Answer 39

-MAde travel easier and faster
-helped transport goods faster and easier as well

Question 40

Textile mill

Answer 40

produced cotton, woolens, and other types of fabrics

Question 41

Power loom

Answer 41

a device designed to make the weaving process a lot easier and faster.

Question 42

Railroad

Answer 42

-MAde travel easier and faster
-helped transport goods faster and easier as well

Question 43

Mechanical reaper

Answer 43

Helped harvest many crops easier and faster