Westward Expansion and Reform Review
Question / Answer1. What state was added through a treaty with Spain? / Florida
2. The US had a war with which country to gain control of California and the southwest? / Mexico
3. Which state was an independent republic for nine years before it joined the US? / Texas
4. What country shared the Oregon territory with the US until it was divided in 1846? / Great Britain
5. The Mexican Cession added the Southwest and which state to present day US? / California
6. What is the belief of Manifest Destiny? / Expansion was good for the country
7. Oregon and Santa Fe are examples of what kind of trails? / Overland trails
8. What event caused thousands of people to move to California in 1849? / Gold Rush
9. What was the biggest advantage of the Erie Canal? / Allowed easier travel for those far away from water
10. What invention did Jo Anderson and Cyrus McCormick make to help the farmer? / reaper
11. Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin led to a greater demand for ______. / slaves
12. What allowed boats and locomotives to be faster before the Civil War? / Steam engine
13. Abolitionists believed that slavery was ______. / Morally wrong, cruel and inhumane
14. What movement declared “all men and women are created equal”? / Suffrage movement
15. What was the most important right denied to women during the suffrage movement? / Right to vote
16. Who are the three women associated with the suffrage movement? / Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Isabel Sojourner Truth
17. Who was a white abolitionist to call for the “immediate and complete emancipation” of enslaved people? (He wrote The Liberator) / William Lloyd Garrison
18. Who purchased his freedom from his slaveholder and started an abolitionist newspaper called The North Star? / Frederick Douglass
19. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were best known for their struggle to ______. / Women’s rights
20. What were the seven reasons for westward expansion? / Manifest Destiny, land (cheap, available and fertile), eastern overcrowding, transportation was cheaper and easier, slaves wanted freedom, gold (economic opportunity), overland trails
21. What is the main goal of an abolitionist? / End slavery immediately
22. To give up or hand over territory to another is called ______- / cede
23. What did the cotton gin do? / Removed seeds from cotton
24. Who invented the cotton gin? / Eli Whitney
25. Robert Fulton improved what invention? / steamboat
26. What former slave was a leader in the abolition and suffrage movement and said “Ain’t I a Woman? / Isabel Sojourner Truth
27. What does emancipate mean? / free
28. List the three abolitionists from this unit. / Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and William Lloyd Garrison
29. What did the reaper do? / Allowed farmers to harvest wheat and grains faster
30. Draw a map of the US and label the five territories added to the US between 1801-1861. Include how we got each territory.
Essay- On test day, be prepared to write a two paragraph essay. In the first paragraph, include the seven reasons for going West. In the second paragraph write about whether you would have gone West or not in the 1800s and list two reasons why you would or would not go West.
Rubric:
___Introductory Sentence in each paragraph-2 points
___Concluding Sentence in each paragraph-2 points
___Seven reasons for going West identified-7 points
___Two reasons given to explain why or why you would not go West-2 points
___Essay is legible with few mistakes-2 points
Total ______/15 ______