Westward Expansion Study Guide

March 11, 2015

Westward Expansion Study Guide

• 1. FEDERALISTS: Leaders-John Adams (2nd President) and Alexander Hamilton

• Believed in a STRONG national government and commercial economy

• Bankers and businessmen in the North –Richer folks

• Supported Britain

• 1. Leaders-Thomas Jefferson (3rd Press), James Madison (4th Press)

• Believed in a WEAK national government and an agricultural economy

• Farmers, artisans, frontier settlers in the South

• Supported France

2. First American presidential election in which power was peacefully transferred from one party to another

3. Doubled the size of the United States

Lewis and Clark• 4. British Interference with trade routes and

westward expansion past App Mts., Impressment policy, Led to an American claim of the Oregon Territory with Britain

• Increased migration into Florida which was later acquired in a treaty with Spain

– 5. No further colonization by European powers on the American continents

– Western Hemisphere countries were republics not monarchies.

– Any violation would be seen as a threat by the United States

– United States would not interfere in European affairs

6. Railroads and canals used to ship goods to Eastern markets and American settlers moved west seeking economic opportunity in the form of land to own and farm

7. They were forced to march far away from their homes and be confined to reservations. 8. Battle of the Alamo-1836 –Band of Texans fought to the last man.

9. (Mexican Cession) that included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of Colorado and New Mexico

10. Cotton Gin11. American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast• 12. Increased voter participation-poor white

males could vote• Interest group politics-relating to common

man• Changing style of campaigning-must appeal

to common man- Andrew Jackson

13.Spoils System14. Whigs and Know-Nothings15. North-eliminate foreign competition16. South-because that made the price of

imports from Europe more expensive

17. Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and Kansas-Nebraska Act

18. states could NULLIFY (VOID )The Tariff of 1832(tax on imported goods) and other acts of Congress

19. William Lloyd Garrison

20. A person against slavery

21. Southerners’ feared more slave rebellions

22. led to harsher laws against slaves • Southerners who were abolitionists were silent

23. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT--Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott.

24. Wrote the Seneca Falls Declaration in 1848-modeled after DOI listing the rights denied women.