PHASE 5 STUDY GUIDE: MANIFEST DESTINY, THE AGE OF JACKSON
and REFORMERS
Using your notes and textbook Chapters 13-15, complete the following information. Check to
see how much you can answer without using your notes first!!!
Beside each item below, list the country, countries or continent with which the US was involved—then list the
decade in which the event occurred?
EVENT
COUNTRY, COUNTRIES, CONTINENT?
DECADE?
A. Gadsden Purchase
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B. Mexican Cession
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C. Louisiana Purchase
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D. Florida
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E. Oregon Territory
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F. The US in 1783
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Using the 7 territories listed above,
label the map to the left with the
correct letter (A-F)
Write out the correct title of the
acquisition in the correct geographic
location and its precise date!
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What was the significance about the outcome of the War with Mexico?
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INVENTIONS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE: For each inventor listed below, write his key invention or for an
invention, write the inventor. Then, briefly explain why it was important to the growth and development of
America
INVENTION
Cotton Gin
Steel Plow
Steam Boat
Erie Canal
Railroads
INVENTOR
Cyrus McCormick
Samuel Morse
Elias Howe
George Westinghouse
George Pullman
Cyrus Field
IMPORTANCE
JACKSONIAN AMERICA:
For this timeline and fill in the blank, read the events describe below. Fill in the missing word or phrase, then put the
events in correct chronological order. You may use only the CAPITAL letter of the event.
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A. Henry Clay—nicknamed “_______________________________”—proposes a deal that eases tensions and mollifies
both sides for A LITTLE WHILE
B. Andrew Jackson is elected in 1828 after a nasty rematch with ___________________________________.
C. South Carolina declares the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 void, infuriating Andrew Jackson
D. Congress raises the protective tariff—“The Tariff of ________________________ to the South
E. Congress gives AJ the right to use military force to enforce the laws; AJ sends warships to Charleston
F. Vice President John C. Calhoun proposes _________________________, which says that a state can void a law it
believes is unconstitutional.
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1. What was the name for the financial institution that AJ hated? ________________________________________
2. Why did he not like it? ________________________________________________________________________
3. How did he help destroy it? ____________________________________________________________________
4. What impact did the destruction of the bank have? _________________________________________________
5. What is the name for the first major depression in US history? _________________________________________
6. Why were more men able to vote beginning in the 1820 and 1830? _____________________________________
7. What was the tool Andrew Jackson employed so successfully to kill legislation he didn’t like? ________________
8. What was the nickname given to the informal group of advisers that Jackson used? ________________________
9. What is the name given to the practice of rewarding loyal political supporters with good govt jobs? ___________
10. What is the nickname given to the forced removal of Native Americans in the Southeast? __________________
11. With what tribe is that forced removal most closely associated? _______________________________________
REFORMERS??? For each of the people listed below, write whether they were MOST associated with
abolition, women’s rights or other (education, prison reform, temperance, transcendentalism, treatment of
mentally ill, religious reforms)
1. William Lloyd Garrison
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1A?? What was the name of his newspaper? ______________________________________________
2. Sojourner Truth
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3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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4. Dorothea Dix
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5. Harriet Tubman
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5A?? For what organization was she a “conductor”? _________________________________________
6. Frederick Douglas
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6A?? What was the name of his newspaper? _______________________________________________
7. Horace Mann
8. Catherine Beecher
9. Peter Cartwright
10. Charles Finney
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11. William Miller
12. TS Arthur
13. Brigham Young
14. Neal Dow
15. Lucrettia Mott
16. William McGuffey
17. Emma Willard
18. Walt Whitman
19. Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. Noah Webster
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NICKNAMES: Match each of the following with the correct term. Some may have more than one answer!
Henry Clay
Force Bill
No Irish Need Apply
The Bank of the United States
Texas
Gone to Texas
Tariff of Abominations
Nicholas Biddle
Black Tariff
Used by Jackson to put federal money in
Campaign theme of 1840
Martin Van Buren
John Quincy Adams
Concept of “pulling up your bootstraps and going
on”
___ Name used by opponents of Andrew Jackson
___ Name used by supporters of Andrew Jackson
___ Samuel Slater
___ Election of 1828
___ South Carolina opponents of Jackson
___ Fur trading system
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A. “Corrupt Bargain”
B. “Old Hickory”
C. “King Andrew”
D. “Revolution of the Common Man”
E. “Old Man Eloquent”
F. “Tariff of Abominations”
G. “Czar Nicholas”
H. “Pet Banks”
I. “Black Tariff”
J. “Judas of the West”
K. “Nullies”
L. “Bloody Bill”
M. GTT
N. “Log Cabins and Hard Cider”
O. “The Little Magician”
P. “Lonestar State”
Q. “Moneyed Monster”
R. “Rugged Individualism”
S. “Rendezvous System”
T. “NINA”
U. “Father of the Factory System”
FAMOUS QUOTES: Write the person or situation that each quote is describing.
A. “To the victor goes the spoils” __________________________________________________________________
B. “Every man is as good as his neighbor…” __________________________________________________________
C. “ I will hang the first man I see by the first tree I see” ________________________________________________
D. “The bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it” _______________________________________________________
E. “I shall never surrender or retreat…victory or death” _________________________________________________
F. “John Marshall has made his decision, not let him enforce it” __________________________________________
G. “Our union must be preserved” __________________________________________________________________
H. “What hath God wrought” ______________________________________________________________________
I’M A VIP, SO YOU KNOW ME!!!
A. Moses/Stephen Austin
B. Alamo
C. Sam Houston
D. Martin Van Buren
E. Santa Anna
F. San Jacinto
G. Denmark Vesey
H. Divorce Bill
I. Specie Circular
J. Whigs
K. Nativism
L. American or Know Nothing Party
M. Scabs
N. Commonwealth v. Hunt
O. Lowell Mills
P. National Road
Q. Lancaster Turnpike
R. Second Great Awakening
S. Joseph Smith
T. Seneca Falls Convention
U. Hudson River School of Art
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___ Strike breakers
___ Were used as the perfect example of factory
workers
___ First privately funded road
___ Said that labor unions were legal
___ Leader of Mexico
___ Fear of foreigners
___ Said all land purchases must be in hard money
___ Slave rebellion leader
___ First road built by the federal government from
Maryland to Illinois
___ Religious revival in 1800s
___ School of art that focused on American
landscapes
___ Political party created by fear of foreign groups
___ Political party created out of anger at Jackson
___ Last battle of war for Texas Independence
___ Leader of first groups into Texas
___ Meeting of women’s rights leaders
___ Battle for Texas Independence with Bowie and
Crockett
___ First President of Texas Republic
___ Created an independent treasury
___ Leader of the Mormons