Name: _____________________________________ Pd. _______
Smiley
U.S. History
Review Sheet – Unit 4 – Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny and Reform
Each unit this year we will cover a set of ideas from the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS). These are the
state standards that will guide the creation of the county and state end-of-the-semester tests in this course. For
your convenience, I am including the standards with each study guide to help you think holistically about the
information we cover in each unit. You need to hang on to these sheets – they will be important for end of the
semester (and year) review.
SSUHS7 Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and national
impact in the first half of the 19th century, and the different responses to it.
□ a. Explain the impact the Industrial Revolution as seen in Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin and his
development of interchangeable parts for muskets.
□ b. Describe the westward growth of the United States including the emerging concept of Manifest Destiny.
□ c. Describe reform movements, specifically temperance, abolitionism, and public school.
□d. Explain women’s efforts to gain the suffrage, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the
Seneca Falls Conference.
□ e. Explain Jacksonian Democracy, expanding the suffrage, the rise of popular political culture, and the
development of American nationalism.
SSUSH8 The student will explain the relationship between growing north-south divisions
and westward expansion.
□ a. Explain how slavery became a significant issue in American politics, including the slave rebellion of Nat Turner
and the rise of abolitionism (William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas and the Grimke sisters).
□ c. Describe the Nullification Crisis and the emergence of states’ rights ideology, including the role of John C.
Calhoun and development of sectionalism.
□ d. Describe war with Mexico and the Wilmot Proviso.
□ e. Explain how the Compromise of 1850 arose out of territorial expansion and population growth.
SSUSH9 The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals relating to the causes, course, and
consequences of the Civil War.
□ a. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott case, and John Brown’s Raid.
Key terms: (Don’t just memorize definitions; put these in context of the times)
1. Factors leading to Industrialization 23. Options for dealing with slavery in the
2. Patents territories
3. Interchangeable parts (Whitney) 24. Wilmot Proviso
4. Cotton gin (Whitney) 25. Popular sovereignty
5. Transportation and communication 26. Compromise of 1850
improvements 27. Kansas Nebraska Act
6. Sectionalism 28. John Brown
7. Election of 1824 and then corrupt bargain 29. Republican Party – beliefs and key people
8. Election of 1828 30. Dred Scott case (Scott v. Sandford ) (1857)
9. Andrew Jackson 31. Movement for women’s rights
10. Expansion of suffrage 32. Seneca Falls Conference
11. Jackson and the National bank 33. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
12. Jackson and the tariff 34. Grimke sisters
13. Calhoun – nullification (States’ rights) 35. Dorothea Dix
14. Compromise of 1833 (Clay) 36. Temperance movement
15. Jackson and Indian Removal 37. Reforms in public schools – Horace Mann
16. Trail of Tears 38. Abolition
17. Democratic Party – beliefs and key people 39. Nat Turner’s revolt
18. Whig Party –beliefs and key people 40. William Lloyd Garrison
19. William Henry Harrison 41. Frederick Douglass
20. Manifest Destiny (Polk) STUDY THE MAP 42. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
21. Independence of Texas – Alamo 43. Harriet Tubman
22. War with Mexico and Treaty of Guadalupe 44. Transcendentalism
Hidalgo 45. Important American authors