Unit 4 Significant Slideshow Items

Question 1

“American System”

Answer 1

Clay: tariffs, new infrastructure, Bank of US re-charter

Question 2

Rush-Bagot Treaty provided for large

Answer 2

demilitarization of lakes

Question 3

Missouri Compromise

Answer 3

MO= slave state, Maine= free, 36 30’= future boundary

Question 4

“Know-Nothing Party” opposed ________ + the election of _____ ______ __________

Answer 4

immigration; Roman Catholic politicians

Question 5

Lowell Girls

Answer 5

little girls who worked in factories

Question 6

Samuel Slater

Answer 6

“Father of the American Industrial Revolution”

Question 7

Erie Canal linked

Answer 7

Great Lakes (NY) with the Hudson River

Question 8

Nat Turner led the

Answer 8

most famous slave revolt in US history

Question 9

1820s was an era defined by the

Answer 9

“Rise of the Common Man”

Question 10

Jackson lost 1824 election despite popular vote win and claimed there had been a

Answer 10

“corrupt bargain”

Question 11

Jacksonian Democracy ended the

Answer 11

“Era of Good Feeling”

Question 12

The “Era of Good Feelings” occurred during

Answer 12

Monroe’s presidency

Question 13

Jackson openly used the

Answer 13

“spoils system”

Question 14

1830 Indian Removal Act forced the

Answer 14

relocation of lands west of Mississippi River

Question 15

“trail of tears”

Answer 15

when the indians relocated, 4k died en route to OK

Question 16

Second Great Awakening was a

Answer 16

religious revival that sparked the early reform period

Question 17

temperance movement

Answer 17

wanted to ban alcohol

Question 18

Dorothea Dix sought better treatment for the

Answer 18

mentally ill and prisoners

Question 19

Horace Mann started

Answer 19

public school

Question 20

Seneca Falls Convention demanded

Answer 20

true universal suffrage

Question 21

Manifest Destiny

Answer 21

god’s will for US to expand across continent to the pacific

Question 22

______ ____ _________ ended the Spanish-American War

Answer 22

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Question 23

Mexican Cession

Answer 23

US paid $15M for most of present-day southwest