History 11.3

Question 1

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 1

territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million

Question 2

Mississippi River

Answer 2

A major North American river and the chief river of the United States, longest river in the U.S.

Question 3

War of 1812

Answer 3

A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France.

Question 4

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 4

warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization

Question 5

Nationalism

Answer 5

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country

Question 6

Sectionalism

Answer 6

Loyalty to one’s own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole (North, South, West)

Question 7

Market Revolution & Impact on America

Answer 7

Drastic changes in transportation (canals, RRs), communication (telegraph), and the production of goods (more in factories as opposed to houses)

Question 8

Andrew Jackson

Answer 8

(1829-1833) and (1833-1837), Indian removal act, nullification crisis, Old Hickory,” first southern/ western president,” President for the common man,” pet banks, spoils system, specie circular, trail of tears, Henry Clay Flectural Process.

Question 9

Indian Removal Act

Answer 9

(1830) a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

Question 10

Trail of Tears

Answer 10

The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.

Question 11

Worcester v. Georgia

Answer 11

Supreme Court Decision - Cherokee Nation should be protected by the federal government and not controlled by the state of Georgia. JJackson did not listen.

Question 12

Nullification Crisis of 1832

Answer 12

Under Jackson. Caused by the Tariff of 1828 (taxing rate was 48%). South Carolina is not going to pay that tax. Jackson supported states rights but sends troops into South Carolina to enforce the tariff of 1828. Nullified the Force act - congress allows Jackson to send troops to South Carolina.

Question 13

Frederick Douglass

Answer 13

(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.

Question 14

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 14

(1811-1896) American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Question 15

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 15

organized a convention for women’s rights held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848

Question 16

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 16

(1848) the first national women’s rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written

Question 17

Declaration of Sentiments

Answer 17

Revision of the Declaration of Independence to include women and men (equal). It was the grand basis of attaining civil, social, political, and religious rights for women.

Question 18

Missouri Compromise

Answer 18

“Compromise of 1820” over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

Question 19

Manifest Destiny

Answer 19

A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

Question 20

Compromise of 1850

Answer 20

Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories

Question 21

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 21

a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery

Question 22

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 22

A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn’t sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.

Question 23

John Brown

Answer 23

Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)

Question 24

Election of 1860

Answer 24

Lincoln elected President with no Southern electoral votes

Question 25

Secede/Secession

Answer 25

To formally withdraw from the union

Question 26

Border States

Answer 26

in the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri

Question 27

Habeas Corpus

Answer 27

An order to produce an arrested person before a judge.

Question 28

Gettysburg Address

Answer 28

A 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 29

Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1862. It declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free