Textbook pages 62-69

Question 1

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 1

A paper that told Europe to stay out of their business.

Question 2

What became the center of manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 2

The northeast.

Question 3

What shipped grain and meat products into cities in the East and Europe?

Answer 3

The West

Question 4

Noah Webster wrote what book?

Answer 4

Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

Question 5

What two books did Washington Irving wrote?

Answer 5

Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle between 1819 and 1820

Question 6

when did Washington Irving live?

Answer 6

1783-1859

Question 7

When was the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 7

1820; Maine entered as a free state; Missouri became a slave state

Question 8

What were the 1820s-1850s?

Answer 8

The Age of Reform

Question 9

Name three women reformers

Answer 9

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony

Question 10

First American female doctor

Answer 10

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 11

What did Emma Hart do?

Answer 11

Founded the first high school for girls

Question 12

What did Dorothea Dix do?

Answer 12

Toured the country and raised awareness on the treatment of the mentally ill.

Question 13

Sojourner Truth

Answer 13

Speaker for abolition and women’s rights

Question 14

Harriet Tubman

Answer 14

Conductor on the Underground Railroad; helped more than 300 blacks to freedom

Question 15

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 15

Toured the north, speaking for an end to slavery; had a newspaper called the North Star for the same thing

Question 16

Andrew Jackson

Answer 16

1761-1845; Jacksonian democracy; was a slave owner and designed the Indian Removal Act

Question 17

First movement for women’s rights

Answer 17

1848 at Seneca Falls, spearheaded by Staton and Mott

Question 18

Joseph Smith

Answer 18

Founded Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, later called Mormons. Moved his group to Utah in 1846.

Question 19

Oregon Fever

Answer 19

between 1841-1845; Oregon Trail, 2000 miles

Question 20

1820, Texas

Answer 20

Moses and Stephen Austin settled 300 Americans in Texas; thousands more followed

Question 21

1835, Mexico

Answer 21

General Santa Anna sent army into Texas; 100 Texans defended themselves at the Alamo.

Question 22

March 6, 1836

Answer 22

Texans at the Alamo killed

Question 23

September, 1836

Answer 23

Republic of Texas founded

Question 24

When was the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 24

Put into effect in 1830 by Congress and Andrew Jackson

Question 25

Peter Cooper

Answer 25

1791-1883; inventor, industrialist, philanthropist; founded Cooper Union (1859)

Question 26

Nat Turner

Answer 26

1800-1831; led slaves in a rebellion in 1831. Wa hanged and states toughened their “Slave Codes

Question 27

When was the Republic of Texas annexed by who?

Answer 27

March of 1845 by the US