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:
- Define imperialism
- Provide specific examples of imperialism in the United States
- Understand Mexican, Native American history and treatment
- 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:
- Define Manifest Destiny
- Include the issues faced by different nationalities [choose two; must be detailed]
- Chinese
- Native Americans
- Irish
- African Americans
- Explain the national identity of the US in the mid 1800s
Remember-
Essay must have:
- 5 paragraphs
- A proper thesis with the main ideas outlined in it
- Indentation
- Proper grammar
- a conclusion that does not state in conclusion
- the conclusion should restate the thesis
- historical detail and background knowledge
- NO FIRST PERSON
