| Question | Answer |
| Define manifest destiny. | The belief that God wanted the US to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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What were some of the ways that the US expanded during the early and mid 1800s? | Louisiana Purchase, Oregon Trail, War with Mexico, Gadsden Purchase
| What was the Monroe Doctrine? | US told Europe that it could not colonize or interfere with any country in the Western Hemisphere.
| How did westward expansion impact white men? | It gave them more land and opportunities.
| How did westward expansion impact Native Americans and Mexicans? | It caused them to lose land and face discrimination.
| How did the Erie Canal help westward expansion? | Easier to move people and goods to the midwest.
| How did the telegraph help westward expansion? | Communicate over long distances.
| How did the steel plow help westward expansion? | Break through tough prarie sod and dirt.
| How did the mechanical reaper help westward expansion? | Easier and quicker to harvest wheat.
| How did the cotton gin and interchangeable parts increase sectionalism? | One made the South more dependent on slavery while the other made the North more dependent on factories.
| How did westward expansion increase sectionalism? | There was a fight over whether new states should be free or slave.
| How did Congress try to resolve the issue over new states? | Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850
| Were the compromises over the expansion of slavery successful? | No, fighting over slavery will continue until the Civil War.
| How did the government increase its power during the early to mid 1800s? | Louisiana Purchase, Marbury v. Madison, and the Trail of Tears all increased the power of the federal government.
| How did Andrew Jackson increase democracy? | He pushed for the common man to be able to vote by dropping property requirements.
| How did Andrew Jackson limit rights? | He enforced the Indian Removal Act, causing the Cherokee to walk the Trail of Tears.
| What were some of the reform movements that grew during the 1800s? | Temperance, women's rights, prison reform, education reform, utopian communities, abolitionism.
| Define nativism. | The support of native born over immigrants. |
