Unit 3 Study Guide
a. Identify and evaluate the political and territorial changes resulting from westward expansion of the United States in the early nineteenth century
1. Why did Northerners object to the 1846 war with Mexico?
2. What was the memorable battle cry of the Texas Revolution?
3. According to those who opposed the war with Mexico, what was the primary reason for it?
4. What was the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo? Who did it benefit, and what did they get?
5. What effect did the Mexican-American War have on Politics in the U.S.?
b. Analyze the evaluate federal and state policies toward American Indians in the first half of the nineteenth century
1. What was the ruling in the Worcester v Georgia case of 1832?
2. What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
3. What President was considered responsible for the trail of tears?
c. Identify and evaluate the major events and issues that promoted sectional conflicts and strained national cohesiveness in the antebellum period
1. What was the implication of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
2. What was the final major legislative effort to prevent the Civil War?
3. At the DNC of 1860, what issue split the Democratic Party?
4. What and who was involved in the “nullification” issue in South Carolina?
5. What issue dominated congressional deliberations over the admission of Texas as a state?
d. Identify significant religious, philosophical, and social reform movements of the nineteenth century and their impact on American society
1. What was transcendentalism? What were some of its fundamental beliefs?
2. Who was considered the father of public education? And claimed the education is the “great equalizer”?
3. In antebellum America, what though gave impulse to the widespread desire for social reform?
a. The Romantic assumption that human nature was essentially good and institutions could be changed for the better.
b. The Calvinist conviction that people were essentially sinful and new forms of social control had to be designed and implemented.
c. The transcendentalist belief that individuals who enjoyed an original relationship to the universe could transform society.
d. The utopian argument that men and women could begin to change the world by establishing small, perfect communities.
e. Identify the major characteristics of the abolition movement in the antebellum period, its achievements, failures, and Southern opposition to it
1. Who was John Brown, what cause did he fight against?
2. What was meant by “Bleeding Kansas”?
3. What was the main goal of the American colonization Society?
4. Know the impacts of Frederick Douglas and William Lloyd Garrison.
5. What was the Underground Railroad?
f. Analyze the women’s rights and suffrage movements and the impact of women on other reform movements in the antebellum period
1. Who was known for working to improve treatment of people with mental illnesses?
2. What was the temperance movement?
3. Who was Harriet Tubman?
4. Why was Harriet Beecher Stowe blamed for the Civil War?
5. What was the main factor in the in the rise of feminism during the antebellum period?
g. Compare and contrast the economic, social, and cultural differences of the North and South during the Antebellum period
1. What was the “peculiar institution”?
2. What was one advantage the North had over the South at the start of the Civil War?
3. What drove the economies of the North and the South during the Antebellum period?
4. What was the significance of the Panic of 1857?