COMMON ASSESSMENT IV
Expansion and Development 1800-1844 Study Guide
1. Why was the election of 1800 known as “revolution of 1800” ?
2. Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of Louisiana had its origins in his desire
to acquire what?
3. Thomas Jefferson is often accused of political inconsistency since he
apparently supported state rights in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions but
acted as a supporter of federal power and loose construction of the
Constitution when he did what?
4.
The Constitution made no provision for the
acquisition of land. How did Jefferson
justify the purchase of Louisiana?
5.
Which Supreme Court case established
the principle of judicial review?
6. What contributed to the United State decision to declare war against
Great Britain in 1812?
7. What is the American System?
8. Which transportation developments opened the West to settlement and
trade between 1790 and 1830?
9. Describe nationalism and the new national
culture
10. Why was the Erie Canal in 1825 important?
11. How did New England add to the American system?
12. Parts of Henry Clay’s “American System”
13. Who opposed to the proposed American System of internal
improvements?
14.
Reasons for the proclamation of the Monroe
Doctrine
15.
What considerations influenced the
United States to go to war with England and not France in 1812?
16. Why was the election of 1824 decided in the House of Representatives?
17.
Andrew Jackson’s actions
18.
Significance of the nullification controversy
of 1832-33
19.
Consequences of the “Tariff of
Abominations” (1828)
20.
Describe Jacksonian Democracy
21.
President Jackson’ Native American policy
results
22.
In the 1830s, the factor that most directly
promoted the return of the two-party system?
23.
How did the election of 1828 mark
a turning point in presidential politics?
24.
What were the results of
antebellum technological innovations such as textile machinery, the steam
engine, the telegraph, and the use of interchangeable parts?
25.
What increased the economic
linkage of the North and the Midwest during the antebellum era?
26.
What did the forced relocation of
American Indians and the internal slave trade both have in common?
27.
How did cotton and other cash
crops in the South lead to power?
28.
The idea of glorifying women’s role as homemakers, resulting
in part from the increasing separation between home and the workplace brought
on by industrialization
29.
How did the North restrict African
American citizenship during the antebellum era?
“I think that [between] the negroes of the South and the women at
the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty
soon. But what's all this here talking about? Then they talk about
[intellect]... What's that got to do
with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and
yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half
measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as
much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from?
... From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman
God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these
women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up
again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”
--Sojourner Truth, speech
to Akron, Ohio Women’s Convention, 1851
APUSH
Period IV Test(major grade) tomorrow. Jackson DBQ(minor grade) due Friday 4pm via email.
We will begin Period V (1844-1877) Wednesday
