UNIT 3 REVIEW SHEET SSUSH6 – SSUSH8

Remember, this is a comprehensive exam. I would HIGHLY recommend going over Unit 1 and Unit 2 study guides. If you only study this, you will be missing approximately half of the exam.

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  1. Explain the importance of the Northwest Ordinance.
  2. What are several key issues covered…
  3. Describe diplomacy in reference to how Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory.
  4. Who purchased the land?
  5. From who?
  6. What did this purchase do, geographically, for the US?
  7. What was the Erie Canal?
  8. What was the importance of the Erie Canal on New York?
  9. What did it help to usher in?
  10. Who benefitted from the canal?
  11. What was the Monroe Doctrine?
  12. The Monroe Doctrine is an example of what for the United States?
  13. What was the Industrial Revolution?
  14. How did it affect the North/South differently?
  15. What was the importance of the cotton gin?
  16. Who developed the cotton gin?
  17. What else did this person invent?
  18. How did the cotton gin affect slavery?
  19. What was the Manifest Destiny belief?
  20. Did everyone agree with this sentiment?
  21. Most notably, this country disagreed with this idea and it led to war.
  22. Define the following:
  23. Temperance
  24. Abolitionism
  25. Public school
  26. Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and what was her importance?
  27. Explain the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention on Women’s rights.
  28. Explain Jacksonian Democracy and how it affected the US.
  29. How was he elected…(suffrage expansion…)
  30. How did this time period show us the rise of “politics” as we know it?
  31. What is Nationalism?
  32. Know all of the following and their significance:
  33. Nat Turner
  34. Williams Lloyd Garrison
  35. Frederick Douglass
  36. Grimke Sisters
  37. Explain the Missouri Compromise and the importance of this document on the development of the US.
  38. How did it affect slavery in the west?
  39. What did it not do?
  40. What was the Nullification Crisis and how did it affect states’ rights?
  41. Who was at the head of the nullification crisis and he was a staunch supporter of what kind of rights?
  42. Who was adamantly against the nullification of federal law?
  43. What is Sectionalism?
  44. Know about the War with Mexico.
  45. Why we fought with them after the annexation of Texas.
  46. What the Wilmot Proviso said and did it pass…
  47. Give the key components of the Compromise of 1850. Why was this necessary after the Missouri Compromise?
  48. Why was this document even necessary?