1. Unit 4 Study Guide
1. What was the western border of the U.S. after the Revolutionary War?
2. What lands did Jefferson acquire for the nation?
3. Who did Jefferson send to explore these new lands?
4. The Adams-Onis Treaty acquired what territory from Spain?
5. Who invented the steel plow?
6. Who invented the telegraph?
7. Who invented vulcanization of rubber for tires?
8. Who invented the mechanical reaper?
9. What did Eli Whitney do?
10. How did the cotton gin affect slavery?
11. Who won the election of 1824?
12. How was this person chosen to be President?
13. Who won the election of 1828?
14. Who was commonly called the “Common Man’s President”?
15. What is the practice of giving jobs as rewards for service called?
16. Which of the three voting requirements was dropped by the 1828 election?
17. What large Indian group resisted the efforts of the gov’t to move them?
18. What Supreme Court case supported the Indians?
19. What was the forced migration of this group called?
20. What state nearly left the Union over the high tariff of 1828?
21. What did the South call that tariff?
22. What theory, supported by John C. Calhoun stated that a state could ignore a federal law?
23. Jackson’s killing of the Bank of the United States led to what economic recession?

2. 24. What political party arose to oppose Jackson and his followers?
Unit 4 Study Guide
24. What political party arose to oppose Jackson and his followers?
25. Who led a famous slave revolt in Virginia?
26. Which reformer promoted free public education
27. Which reformer advocated mental hospital reformers?
28. Name the Convention where women stated their belief in equal rights?
29. System of abolitionists who helped slaves escape to freedom?
30. Wrote “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience”?
31. Why is “Civil Disobedience” famous? Who did it inspire?
32. What did Washington Irving write?
33 What did Edgar Allen Poe write?
34. What did James Fenimore Cooper write?
35. What did Nathaniel Hawthorne write?
36. Movement to ban alcohol?
37. The idea that the U.S. should expand across the continent?
38. Name of the route that many settlers took to go west?
39. What religious group settled the area of Utah?
40. Which person led the settlers to Utah?
41. “54 40 or Fight” refers to what territory?
42. Who led American settlers into Texas?
43. Who did Texas revolt against in 1835?
44. Who was the leader of the Texas army and was the first president of Texas?
45. Famous battle where the Texans were defeated by the Mexican Army?
46. When did Texas become a state?
47. Who did the U.S. go to war with in 1845?
48. What treaty ended this war?
49. Why was the Gadsden Purchase necessary?