An Era of Growth and Disunion 1825-1827

Test Review:
15 multiple choice
1 short answer [around 2-3 paragraphs with historical background]
1 choice of a free response

• Know everything there is to know about Manifest Destiny
• Industrialization in the 19th century
• Joseph Smith
• "Fifty-For Forty or Fight"
• The Battle of San Jacinta
• Gadsden Purchase
• Charles Goodyear
• Empresarios
• Gold Rush
• President Polk and the Mexican War
• Capitalism
• What led to the rise of capitalism
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Treaty of Velasco
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• The Alamo
• American Culture of the 19th Century-
• Women's Rights
• Abolitionists
• Immigrants
• Mexicans
• Chinese
• Racial issues
• Slavery in the South
• Racism in the North
• Schools
• Segregation

Free Response Questions:

Write your definition of imperialism. Use this definition to argue that the United States was or was not an imperialistic in the 1840s

To answer this you must:

1. Define imperialism
2. Provide specific examples of imperialism in the United States
3. Understand Mexican, Native American history and treatment
4. How new land was acquired from the Louisiana Purchase to the Gadsden Purchase

Explain how Manifest Destiny intensified ethnic and cultural conflicts and complicated the forging of a national identity.

To answer this you must:

1. Define Manifest Destiny
2. Include the issues faced by different nationalities [choose two; must be detailed]
1. Chinese
2. Native Americans
3. Irish
4. African Americans
3. Explain the national identity of the US in the mid 1800s

Remember-

Essay must have:

1. 5 paragraphs 
2. A proper thesis with the main ideas outlined in it
3. Indentation
4. Proper grammar
5. a conclusion that does not state in conclusion
6. the conclusion should restate the thesis
7. historical detail and background knowledge
8. NO FIRST PERSON