Study Checklist – American History Honors (Chapter 9 and documents)
- Immigration and Nativism
- Inventors and Inventions: John Deere; Samuel Morse;
Cyrus McCormick; Charles Goodyear; I.M. Singer; Elias Howe
- Improved standard of living as a result of industrial
revolution (9.1)
- Transportation: roads, canals, railroads
- Significance of the transportation revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Native Americans (make sure you read 9.2) – Middle
Ground, resistance, Native American life, Treaty of Fort Laramie (sign of
things to come?)
- Trails to the West: Oregon,
Santa Fe, California, and others
- Mormons – Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
- Why did Americans settle in Texas?
- Stephen Austin; Sam Houston; Alamo and Goliad; Texas War for Independence;
Santa Anna
- Why did the U.S.
not immediately annex Texas?
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
(1842)
- Problems in the Tyler
Administration and the Election of 1844
- Liberty
Party
- “Fifty-four forty or fight”; Oregon Treaty of 1846
- Texas
annexation and the border dispute
- Causes of the Mexican-American War; John Slidell’s
failed mission to Mexico
- Whig criticism of the war; Wilmot Proviso; spot
resolutions
- Generals in the Mexican-American War: Kearny, Frémont, Taylor, Scott
- Details of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo;
significance of the Mexican-American War
- Ostend Controversy; later expansionist efforts…
- Gadsden Purchase
- Election of 1848 – Zachary Taylor
- California Gold Rush (and implications for
sectionalism)