Study Questions on Reform Movements and Western Expansion
(Answer on a separate sheet
of paper.)
(Read pp. 167,
169, 264, 266 and 267-273, 239-240 in US book)
1.
What was the Second Great Awakening and what was the message that Charles
Finney preached? What were some results of this movement?
2.
Summarize other Reform Movements by creating and filling out the following
chart on a separate sheet of paper.
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Movement |
Problem |
Proposed
Solution |
Result |
Prominent
People (if any) |
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Temperance |
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Education |
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Women’s
Rights |
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Prisons
and Hospitals for Mentally Ill |
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Working
Conditions |
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|
3.
In your opinion, what accounts for the increasing interest in new religious
movements and utopian communities?
(Read p. 230 – 234
in US book)
4.
What caused the growing tensions between US settlers in Texas and the Mexican
government?
5.
What was the concept of “Manifest Destiny?”
6.
Summarize how Texas came to win its independence?
(Read p. 234 –
235 and p. 238-2239 [top], 241-7 in US book and pp. 290-292 in NC book)
7.
What lessons did the military learn from the Mexican War?
8.
What were the elements of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
9.
What were some results of the War with Mexico?
10.
Look at p. 688 and create and fill out the following chart on a separate
sheet of paper.
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Territorial
Expansion |
Date |
Today’s
States and Parts of States in Territory |
How
Territory was Acquired |
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Louisiana
Purchase |
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Texas
Annexation |
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Oregon
Country |
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Mexican
Cession |
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Gadsden
Purchase |
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