ss part 3

Question 1

Spoils System

Answer 1

Jackson fired many workers in white house and gave the job to his supporters and friends (who were not qualified for the jobs)

Question 2

Indian Removal Act

Answer 2

Act forced Native Americans to relocate to Indian Territory (modern day Oklahoma) Jackson presented it to NA like it was something positive

Question 3

Manifest Destiny

Answer 3

The belief that Americans had the right to move westard and take land

Question 4

Why did some Americans travels west?

Answer 4

For religion, bigger land, gold

Question 5

How did Americans travel west?

Answer 5

Americans traveled west by riding in wagons on trails (Oregon Trail) sailed

Question 6

Annexation

Answer 6

To take control of an area and add it to a country

Question 7

Why did many Americans go to California in the 1840’s-1850’s?

Answer 7

-Went to find gold during gold rush
-California became a state when so many people moved over there

Question 8

Erie Canal

Answer 8

-Man-Made waterway
-Connected water ways from NYC to the Great Lakes region
-Took more than 8 years to build
-Many workers suffered from diseases and died from construction accidents

Question 9

How did the cotton gin impact the south?

Answer 9

-Made cleaning cotton much easier and faster
-Made cotton popular
-More slaves

Question 10

Three overall causes of war

Answer 10

Economic Changes
—slavery+agriculture vs. manufacturing+factories
States rights
—more power to states
Sectionalism

Question 11

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 11

-Harriet Beacher Stowe
-Book that exposed horrors of slavery

Question 12

Secession

Answer 12

When States Leave the Country

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 13

-Northerners supported him
-President during Civil War
-16th president
-Republican

Question 14

What two sides fought in the Civil War?

Answer 14

Union (North) + Confederacy (South)

Question 15

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 15

Anything part of the confederate states were free
-established abolishment of slavery as a goal of the union

Question 16

Gettysburg Address

Answer 16

Lincoln gave a very small speech, remembered as one of the best in history. Saying we’re not going to give up.

Question 17

What were the two goals of the Union during the Civil War?

Answer 17

-Abolish slavery
-Reunite the country

Question 18

Andrew Jackson

Answer 18

-7th U.S. president
-He came from a poorer area (common man)
-Farmers and westard settlers supported him
-Expanded power of the president