Second Semester Final Exam Review Guide
Unit 3 – A Growing Nation
1. Explain how advances in transportation helped to unite the
nation.
Page 328- 339
2. What are some of the things that happened as a result of
Industrialization in the U.S.? Page 325
3. Explain how New England’s geography made it an ideal
place to set up factories. Page 326
4. What effect did the invention of the cotton gin have on the
U.S.?
Page 332
5. What is Jacksonian Democracy? What effect did it have on
political participation in the U.S.? Page 354
6. What two choices did Jackson give the Native Americans?
Page 359
7. What was the Missouri Compromise? What did it attempt
to do?
Page 342
8. What was Manifest Destiny?
Page 391
9. Define the following:
annex –
cede –
10. What was the doctrine of nullification?
Page 365
11. How did Andrew Jackson react to the Nullification Crisis?
Page 367
12. What did the North and the South think of tariffs and why?
Page 363-364
13. Why did Jackson want to get rid of the Second Bank of the
United States?
Page 368-369
14. What is the spoils system?
Page 357
15. Why did immigrants want to come to the United States in
the mid-1800’s?
Page 407
16. What effect did immigrants have on American culture?
Pages 410-412
17. Was American culture mostly united or divided during the
1840’s? Explain.
Page341 and 441-442
18. What was the direct cause of the Mexican War?
Page 391-394
19. How did political campaigns change from 1815-1840?
Page 371 and 420
20. What purpose do political parties serve?
Page 288
Unit 4 – The Civil War
1. Explain the idea of states’ rights. Page 291 and 458
2. Explain how the country was united during the Mexican
War.
Page 390
3. What problems are going to come up with the large amount
of land that the U.S. gained as part of the Mexican Cession?
Page 394 and Page 443
4. Why did the South want slavery to expand to the West?
Page 441-442
5. Explain all the parts of the Compromise of 1850. How did it
create tension between the North and the South?Page 444-445
6. Define the following:
Secede –
Popular sovereignty –
Abolitionists-
7. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? How did it create
tension between the North and the South?
Page 447
8. Explain the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case?
How did the decision create tension between the North and the
South?
Page 451-453
9. Why did the states in the South secede after Lincoln was
elected President? Page 457
10. At the beginning of the war, what was the major goal of
Lincoln and the Union? How did that goal change after
Antietam?
Page 468 and page 487
11. List three advantages that the North had at the beginning
of the war.
Page 467
12. Explain why Lincoln would suspend the writ of habeas
corpus in Maryland at the start of the Civil War? Page 492
13. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? What effect
did it have on the rest of the Civil War? Page 488
14. Explain why each of the following battles is important:
Fort Sumter Page 465 –
Gettysburg Page 497–
Vicksburg Page 500 –
15. Where was the final surrender of the Civil War signed?
Page 503
16. What are the three goals of Reconstruction?
Page 517-518 Chart on Page 507 Immediate Effects
17. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Page 571 and 524-525
18. What did each of the following amendments do?
13th Amendment Page 505 –
14th Amendment Page 519 –
15th Amendment Page 530-533 –
19. Why were these amendments important in helping to unite
American culture?
Page 533
20. It what ways was Reconstruction successful in providing
rights to African-Americans? In what way was Reconstruction
a failure in granting rights to African-Americans?
Page 533
BE ABLE TO ELABORATE ON THE 4 GOALS OF RECONSTRUCTION AND
HOW EFFECTIVE THEY WERE DURING THAT TIME PERIOD
CHAPTER 18
BE ABLE TO ELABORATE ON THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION &
HOW IT TURNED THE TIDES OF THE WAR!
Page 488