Study Guide Quiz

  1. What were the three parts of the American System?
  2. What did Eli Whitney invent? What was a result?
  3. What president signed the IRA?
  4. Who originated the Missouri Compromise? What did it accomplish?
  5. What document warned Europeans to stay out of the W Hemisphere?
  6. Robert Fulton is famous for doing what?
  7. What effect did the cotton gin have on slavery?
  8. Who was the first person to create a water powered factory?
  9. What was the name of the treaty that gave us Florida and Oregon?
  10. What Supreme Court case ruled that the Federal Govt could not be taxed by states?
  11. What inventions helped western farmers the most – and what was the name of the two men that created them-think green?
  12. What three major innovations helping the US in transportation?
  13. What was the ruling in the Supreme Court case of Worchester v. Georgia? What happened after the ruling? What happened next?
  14. What was the name given to the art school that focused on nature?
  15. What was the Tariff of Abominations? Who liked it and who disliked it?
  16. What was Andrew Jackson’s way to try to end the BUS? Why did it not work?
  17. What belief is stated in the SC Exposition? Who originated this document?
  18. What did Andrew Jackson use as President more than any other before him?
  19. What were the reasons why Jackson did not support the BUS?
  20. Who was elected president after the election of 1832?
  21. What was Brook Farm?
  22. What was Charles Finney’s role in the 2nd Great Awakening? What were the key points of the 2nd Great Awakening?
  23. What is the Spoils System? Who was the first president to first use this system? What are positives and what are negatives about this system?
  24. What happened as a result of the Corrupt Bargain?
  25. What were the religious groups that were discriminated against?
  26. Who lead the Mormons out West and where did they stop?
  27. What did a Transcendentalist believe? Who were the three major people associated with this practice?
  28. Define Temperance
  29. What did Dorothea Dix accomplish during the reform movement?
  30. What was Horace Mann most associated with doing?
  31. What tactics did the following men use to stop slavery:

Fredrick DouglasNat Turner

William Lloyd GarrisonCharles Finney

  1. What types of people were commonly employed at a cheaper rate to work in factories?
  2. What did the following women do during the reform movement:

Grimke SistersLucretia Mott

Sojourner TruthElizabeth Cady Stanton

  1. What is a Utopia?
  2. What countries were most immigrants from during this time?