HIST 172 Final Exam Study Guide with
complete solutions
Indian Removal Act - ANSWER- - "The Trail of Tears": Cherokee's own term for
their forced removal, 1838-1839, from the Southeast (later Oklahoma) to Indian
lands; of 15,000 forced to march, 4,000 died on the way
- Involved the trampling of Native rights and disregard of treaties
- signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830
- forcibly relocated tens of thousands of Native Americans and had a devastating
effect on the Native population
- "1830 law signed by President Andrew Jackson that permitted the negotiation of
treaties to obtain the Indians' lands in exchange for their relocation to what would
become Oklahoma"
- MANIFEST DESTINY
- Expressed the conviction that Americans had a God-given right and duty to
spread their civilization
- A perspective that Americans used to justify the displacement of Natives and
war with Mexico
Cult of Domesticity - ANSWER- - the role of women in society was to raise
virtuous children: related to Republican Motherhood
- "true womanhood" = piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity
- contrasting to "true manhood" = rationality, competitiveness, things that serve
men well in the public sphere of politics
- "the 19th century ideology of "virtue" and "modesty" as the qualities that were
essential to proper womanhood"
- domestic sphere of the home for women versus the public sphere of men
- women put on a pedestal as moral guardians of society, but very limiting
- especially middle class, white women
- magazines instructing on how to be a good mother, raise a good home, modest
fashion, grounded family etc.
Temperance Movement - ANSWER- - the push to eliminate alcohol consumption
- 19th century Americans drank way too much
, - American Temperance Society (1826) was formed dedicated to total abstinence
- early efforts focused on moderation
- a widespread reform movement, led by militant Christians, focused on reducing
the use of alcoholic beverages
Seneca Falls Convention - ANSWER- - first formal women's rights meeting
- attendees drafted the controversial "Declaration of Sentiments", used the
language of the Declaration of Independence to argue for women's rights and
point out the hypocrisy of it
- organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who were both
abolitionists
- beginning of the women's rights movements - addressed gender inequality
directly
- 300 individuals joined
- not well received
- "why would women want to step off their pedestal and enter the politics of
men?"
- "a woman is nothing, a wife is everything"
Sojourner Truth - ANSWER- - freed from slavery under New York law in 1827
- like douglass, famous for her stirring speeches
- also involved in women's rights movement
- advocated for female suffrage
- published many ideas for women's rights and abolition
- sojourner truth was a name that represents her spreading the truth
Manifest Desity - ANSWER- - phrase first used in 1845 to urge annexation of
Texas; used thereafter to encourage American settlement of European colonial
and Indian lands in the Great Plains and the West and, more generally, as a
justification for American empire
- Expressed the conviction that Americans had a God-given right and duty to
spread their civilization
- A perspective that Americans used to justify the displacement of Natives and
war with Mexico
Sacagawea - ANSWER- - 15 years old Shoshone Indian girl that guided Lewis and
Clark during their expedition across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
(now Oregon)
- wife of a French fur trader and served as L&C guide and interpreter
complete solutions
Indian Removal Act - ANSWER- - "The Trail of Tears": Cherokee's own term for
their forced removal, 1838-1839, from the Southeast (later Oklahoma) to Indian
lands; of 15,000 forced to march, 4,000 died on the way
- Involved the trampling of Native rights and disregard of treaties
- signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830
- forcibly relocated tens of thousands of Native Americans and had a devastating
effect on the Native population
- "1830 law signed by President Andrew Jackson that permitted the negotiation of
treaties to obtain the Indians' lands in exchange for their relocation to what would
become Oklahoma"
- MANIFEST DESTINY
- Expressed the conviction that Americans had a God-given right and duty to
spread their civilization
- A perspective that Americans used to justify the displacement of Natives and
war with Mexico
Cult of Domesticity - ANSWER- - the role of women in society was to raise
virtuous children: related to Republican Motherhood
- "true womanhood" = piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity
- contrasting to "true manhood" = rationality, competitiveness, things that serve
men well in the public sphere of politics
- "the 19th century ideology of "virtue" and "modesty" as the qualities that were
essential to proper womanhood"
- domestic sphere of the home for women versus the public sphere of men
- women put on a pedestal as moral guardians of society, but very limiting
- especially middle class, white women
- magazines instructing on how to be a good mother, raise a good home, modest
fashion, grounded family etc.
Temperance Movement - ANSWER- - the push to eliminate alcohol consumption
- 19th century Americans drank way too much
, - American Temperance Society (1826) was formed dedicated to total abstinence
- early efforts focused on moderation
- a widespread reform movement, led by militant Christians, focused on reducing
the use of alcoholic beverages
Seneca Falls Convention - ANSWER- - first formal women's rights meeting
- attendees drafted the controversial "Declaration of Sentiments", used the
language of the Declaration of Independence to argue for women's rights and
point out the hypocrisy of it
- organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who were both
abolitionists
- beginning of the women's rights movements - addressed gender inequality
directly
- 300 individuals joined
- not well received
- "why would women want to step off their pedestal and enter the politics of
men?"
- "a woman is nothing, a wife is everything"
Sojourner Truth - ANSWER- - freed from slavery under New York law in 1827
- like douglass, famous for her stirring speeches
- also involved in women's rights movement
- advocated for female suffrage
- published many ideas for women's rights and abolition
- sojourner truth was a name that represents her spreading the truth
Manifest Desity - ANSWER- - phrase first used in 1845 to urge annexation of
Texas; used thereafter to encourage American settlement of European colonial
and Indian lands in the Great Plains and the West and, more generally, as a
justification for American empire
- Expressed the conviction that Americans had a God-given right and duty to
spread their civilization
- A perspective that Americans used to justify the displacement of Natives and
war with Mexico
Sacagawea - ANSWER- - 15 years old Shoshone Indian girl that guided Lewis and
Clark during their expedition across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
(now Oregon)
- wife of a French fur trader and served as L&C guide and interpreter
