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Term 3 Exam
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What term describes a population growth creating large urban areas? | urbanization |
| Which invention came first, telephone or telegraph? | telegraph |
| Who invented the telegraph? | F.B. Morse |
| What invention helped industrial ports and trading centers up and down the Mississippi River, making moving goods and crops quicker to transport, trade, and sell? | Steamboat |
| What foreign policy established the United States as a major power in the Western Hemisphere? (Hint: Monroe was President in 1820) | Monroe Doctrine |
| What affect did the cotton gin have on the slave population? | It increased as cotton demand went up |
| Who performed the majority of hard labor on plantations in the South? | Slaves |
| Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman were important figures in the abolitionist movement, what else did they have in common? | all former slaves |
| What reform movement would the "Liberator" have been associated with? | abolitionist movement |
| Who started the newspaper, The Liberator? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Who was the author of the book, Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Dorothea Dix is associated with what reform movement? | Prison reform |
| What environmental disaster will contribute to an immigration explosion to the United States between 1841 to 1850? | Irish potato famine |
| What invention will lead to a demand in cotton, slave labor, and an increase in textile factories and manufacturing? | cotton gin |
| What reform movement would have called for the restriction and regulation of alcohol consumption and sales? | Temperance movement |
| Religious freedom is guaranteed under the Constitution. Many churches and utopian societies emerged during the early half of the 19th century. What is this time in history referred as? | Second Great Awakening |
| What caused the population to increase rapidly during the early 1800's in Lowell, MA? | Industrial factories/ jobs |
| Horace Mann believed our country would be stronger if its citizens were educated. His influence increased the growth of what institutions of learning? | public schools |
| Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of what device? | telephone |
| This "man-made river" was completed in 1825 and connected the Great Lakes region with the Atlantic coast. What is it? | Erie Canal |
| The federal government will force the Cherokee Indians off their lands in a march called the Trail of Tears, what was the law called that made this possible? | Indian Removal Act |
| What law allowed owners of slaves to pursue escaped slaves into territories and states where slavery was illegal? | Fugitive Slave Law |
| In 1849 gold is discovered in California and a population explosion will follow, what is this time called? | California Gold Rush |
| What is the belief called that expresses the idea that the United States was divinely ordained to expand from "sea to shining sea?" | Manifest Destiny |
| Who is credited with coining the phrase, "Manifest Destiny?" | John O'Sullivan |
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