1. Name: __________________________________ Date: ______________ Study Guide Always work your answers into COMPLETE sentences!! (Exceptions: Fill-in the blank answers, listing and labeling) SOL US I 8a 1. Why was the Louisiana Purchase important? 2. From what country did we buy the Louisiana Purchase? __________________ 3. Which president authorized the Louisiana Purchase? ___________________ 4. Who did the president authorize to explore the Louisiana Purchase? __________________________ and _______________________ 5. The expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase would travel from what river to what ocean? ______________ River to the _____________________ Ocean 6. How AND from what country did the United States obtained Florida? 7. What is the only state that was also an independent republic? ____________________ 8. The Oregon Territory was divided between what two countries? __________ and ____________ 9. How did the southwest territory become part of the United States? _______________________________________________________________________________ 10. Label the territory expansion 1. 13 Original Colonies 2. __________________________________ 3. US in 1783 4. __________________________________ 5. __________________________________ 6. Gadsden Purchase 7. __________________________________ 8. __________________________________

2. SOL US I 8b 11. Define migration: 12. What is Manifest Destiny? 13. What are the factors that influenced westward migration? (List all six) > ___________________________________________________________ 14. The factors of westward migration fall into one of two categories. What are those categories? 15. What was the starting point for the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails for travelers traveling west? 16. The northwestern route would take you along the __________________ Trail 17. The southwestern route would take you along the _________________ Trail 18. What canal would connect the waters of the Hudson River in New York to one of the Great Lakes. SOL US I 8c 19.What/Who is an inventor? 20.What is an Entrepreneur?

3. 21. Who invented the cotton gin? 22. Why was the cotton gin important? 23. What was the negative impact of the cotton gin? 24. Who gets credit for inventing the reaper? 25. Why was the reaper important? 26. Who get credit for improving the steamboat? 27. Why was the steamboat important? 28. What invention help to provided faster land transportation? 29. Prior to the Civil War, most industrialization occurred in what part of the country? 30. Based on your answer above (# 29), how did the equipment produced impact another region of the country? 31. Which invention would actually increase the need for slaves? 32. The four inventions we discussed above would help increase __________________________ and ________________________________?

4. SOL US I 8d - Abolition Movement Questions 33. What is abolitionism? 34. What was the main demand of abolitionists? 33. Why did abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong (list the 3 reasons)? > ___________________________________________ > ___________________________________________ > ___________________________________________ 35. Who was born into slavery, later escaped and help set up and work on the Underground Railroad? 36. Who was editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society? 37. Who was born into slavery, learned to read and later escape to the north. Also became a writer and spokesmen for the abolition of slavery? Suffrage Movement Questions 38. What is the women’s suffrage movement? 39. What “statement” did supporters of the women’s suffrage movement declare? 40. How was this statement different from the original statement in the Declaration of Independence? 41. What were the basic rights that women were denied (list the 4 reasons)? > ___________________________________________ > ___________________________________________ > ___________________________________________ > ___________________________________________

5. 40. Who is the former slave would speak out against slavery and for women’s rights? 41. Who would work for over 45 years for the women’s suffrage movement, but would die 14 years before the women would gain the right to vote? 42. Who was a leading figure in the women’s suffrage movement who delivered the famous “Declaration of Sentiments” at Seneca Falls NY in 1848? 43. List the three people we discussed under the abolitionist movement? > __________________________________ 44. List the three people we discussed under the women’s suffrage movement? > __________________________________