Ch 5 Study Guide

American History

 

  1. How did the Erie Canal help transportation in American?

 

 

  1. Where did the National Road run?

 

 

  1. How did the steam engine help transporation?

 

 

  1. What was the Industrial Revolution? Where did it start?

 

 

 

  1. What are interchangeable parts? Who gets credit for promoting its use in America?

 

 

 

  1. How was communication advanced during this time period? Who invented it?

 

 

  1. Who were the Nativists? What was their main stance? Why did they feel this way?

 

 

 

  1. What became the new #1 crop in the south in the early 1800s?

 

 

  1. What did the cotton gin do? Who invented it?

 

 

  1. What did the cotton gin allow planters to do?

 

 

  1. Why didn’t more southerner own slaves?

 

 

  1. What % of southerners owned slaves?

 

 

  1. Who was Nat Turner? What did he do? What impact did his actions have on the south?

 

 

  1. Describe the 3 parts to the Missouri Compromise? Why did it have to take place?

 

 

 

 

  1. What did the north and the south feel about the expansion of slavery?

 

 

 

  1. Describe the Nullification Crisis? What caused it? How did it end?

 

 

 

 

  1. What did Nullification mean in regards to South Carolina?

 

 

  1. What did President Jackson feel about Nullification? How is this ironic considering his party and where he came from?

 

 

 

 

  1. What was the Indian Removal Act?

 

 

  1. What did the Supreme Court say about the Indian Removal Act? What effect did its ruling have? Why?

 

 

 

  1. Who were the Whigs?

 

 

  1. Who were the Mormons? Who led them in the beginning and to the promised land? Where did they end up?

 

 

 

  1. Who are abolitionists? Where did many of them come from?

 

 

  1. Why did some northerners not support Emancipation?

 

 

  1. What is Manifest Destiny?

 

 

  1. Why did many Americans move to Mexican Texas? What did they have to do in order to live there?

 

 

 

  1. What did the Mexicans do that angered the American settlers?

 

 

  1. What was the result of the Mexican/Texan clash?

 

 

 

  1. What were 2 arguments against the US annexing Texas?

 

 

 

  1. What did the annexation of Texas by the US cause?

 

 

  1. What ended the Mexican War? What were its terms?

 

 

 

  1. What was the Gadsden Purchase? What is a possible reason for this happening?