7th SS Chapter 6.1 - 6.4 Study Guide

Question 1

In what sort of groups did pioneers usually travel west?

Answer 1

wagon trains?

Question 2

What are locks? (in reference to canals)

Answer 2

Locks allow canal boats to rise in steps. When the boat enters a lock chamber, the lower gates close, the upper gets open, and water flows into the chamber raising the boat.

Question 3

Who was a chief supporter of state sovereignty?

Answer 3

John C Calhoun / Southerners ?

Question 4

Who felt tariffs caused the price of manufactured goods to rise?

Answer 4

Southerners?

Question 5

Another name for toll roads?

Answer 5

Turnpikes

Question 6

Who designed the Clermont?

Answer 6

Robert Fluton

Question 7

What did DeWitt Clinton design?

Answer 7

Erie Canal

Question 8

What is another name for toll roads?

Answer 8

Turnpikes

Question 9

What type of engines were used to power boats at this time?

Answer 9

steam engines

Question 10

The Erie Canal is made up of a series of ?

Answer 10

locks

Question 11

What is the spoil’s system?

Answer 11

The practice of giving supporters government jobs

Question 12

Which road connected Ohio with the East?

Answer 12

National Road

Question 13

Who won the presidential election of 1824?

Answer 13

John Q. Adams

Question 14

What did the Force Bill do?

Answer 14

x

Question 15

What is a corduroy road?

Answer 15

They are roads made of logs. They were known by this name because the lines of the logs looked like corduroy cloth. These roads kept the wagons from sinking into the mud but they made for a very noisy and bumpy ride.

Question 16

Which president was from the common people, he was raised in poverty by his mother?

Answer 16

Andrew Jackson

Question 17

Which group decided the presidential election of 1824?

Answer 17

The House of Representatives

Question 18

How did John Tyler become president?

Answer 18

When President Harrison died of pneumonia soon after taking office.

Question 19

Where (what state) did the Trail of Tears begin?

Answer 19

Mississippi

Question 20

What president’s popularity with the common man changed American politics?

Answer 20

Andrew Jackson

Question 21

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 21

to withdraw from

Question 22

What did the Indian Removal Act allow the government to do?

Answer 22

It allowed the government to give land west of the Mississippi to Native Americans in exchange for their lands to the east,

Question 23

What group chartered the Bank of the United States?

Answer 23

Congress

Question 24

How did John Q Adams believe the American economy should shift?

Answer 24

economic growth through internal improvements - new roads and canals