US History Study Guide
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US History Study Guide 4th Six Weeks
Jacksonian Era
What was the Nullification Crisis?
Who was involved?
Explain Sectionalism:
What were the differences between the North, South, and West?
Who were the primary leaders in each section?
What was Indian Removal? (The Trail of Tears)
Why did the public support Indian Removal?
Why is Jackson called the “Common Man” president?
What is the “spoils system” and what was Jackson’s involvement with it?
Industrial Revolution
How did the mechanical reaper and the steel plow change agriculture?
What inventions affected transportation? How?
What invention affected growing cotton? How?
What invention affected communication? How? How did the factory system evolve? What inventions contributed to it’s growth?
Why did people rapidly begin moving to cities?
Who worked in the factories?
What region was most affected by factory growth?
How did Samuel Slater and Henry Cabot Lowell contribute to the growth of the factory system?
Define Textile
How did the cotton gin affect slavery?
What are interchangeable parts?
Westward Movement
Name the following regions (as appropriate), how they were acquired, and when:
Area 1:
Area 2:
Area 5
Area 3:
Area 4:
Area 5: Define Manifest Destiny:
Why was the Mexican – American war started?
Reform
Horace Mann (The Horse Man)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Abigail Adams
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Quakers
List the different reforms and what they were fighting for: