{ U.S HISTORY

Standard 2 review

The student will demonstrate an understanding of how

economic developments and the westward movement

impacted regional differences and democracy in the early

nineteenth century.

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Summarize the impact of the westward movement on

nationalism and democracy, including the expansion of the

franchise, the displacement of Native Americans from the

southeast and conflicts over states’ rights and federal power

during the era of Jacksonian democracy as the result of

major land acquisitions such as the Louisiana Purchase, the

Oregon Treaty, and the Mexican Cession.

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Louisiana Purchase / Lewis and Clark Expedition

1803 – Jefferson purchased Louisiana from FRANCE. He sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Purchase and to find a NORTHWEST Passage.

President Jackson’s policy of INDIAN REMOVAL forced the Cherokee to move to Oklahoma. Many of the Cherokee died on the journey which was known as the TRAIL OF TEARS.

Explain how the Monroe Doctrine and the concept of

Manifest Destiny affected United States’ relationships with

foreign powers, including the role of the United States in

the Texan Revolution and the Mexican War.

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Louisiana

Purchase

(1803) from France

Territory of the

Original 13 States Mexican

Cession

Hawaii

Annexation

No more European colonization

Manifest Destiny

Expansion leads to WAR

The Republic of Texas was ANNEXED by the United

States. This led to a territorial dispute with

Mexico that triggered the MEXICAN WAR.

The U.S. acquired the

MEXICAN Territory as a result of the Treaty of

GUALDALUPE HIDALGO.

Compare the economic development in different regions

(the South, the North, and the West) of the United States

during the early nineteenth century, including ways that

economic policy contributed to political controversies.

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NORTH SOUTH WEST

Economy

Factories and manufacturing

Plantations, cotton

Big farms, cattle ranches

Political Leaders

Whig party, business owners

John C. Calhoun, democrats, and plantation owners

Democrats and cattle owners

Political Issues

No slavery Yes slavery Few slaves

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Compare the social and cultural characteristics of the

North, the South, and the West during the antebellum

period, including the lives of African Americans and

social reform movements such as abolition and women’s

rights.

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Movement Key Figures Goal

Second Great Awakening

Charles G. Finney Religious movement

Antebellum Reform Movements

Movement Key Figures Goal

Abolitionism William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, Fredrick Douglass, Nat Turner,

Sarah Grimke

Outlaw slavery

Antebellum Reform Movements

Movement Key Figures Goal

Temperance Prohibit drinking alcohol

Antebellum Reform Movements

Movement Key Figures Goal

Women’s Rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott

Seneca Falls Convention

Antebellum Reform Movements