HISTORY 2111 EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Mexican American War - ✔✔War between U.S. and Mexico over territory in the
southwest. Polk wanted to also wanted California/New Mexico region. in 1846, he
resorted to an aggressive method by sending troops to disputed area. US declared war
on Mexico when hostilities arose. Americans captured Mexico City. The war ended with
the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe. After that, the US had over half of Mexican land.
This is the number one cause of the civil war. Mexico ceded all claims north of the Rio
Grande which included California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona, Wyoming.
✔✔Manifest Destiny - ✔✔Popular expression in the 1840's. It was the belief that the US
was "destined" to spread from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. It had 4
justifications: race-whites over Indians, religion- protestants over Catholics, ethnicity-
Anglo over Latinos, and politics-republic over monarchy. This brought on the civil war.
✔✔Civil War - ✔✔The period of warfare between the Confederate States of America
(1861-1865) and the United States over the issues of states' rights and slavery.
✔✔Reconstruction - ✔✔The period after the Civil War from 1865-1877 in the United
States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
There were competing plans for this including Lincoln's lenient 10% plan and Wade-
Davis Bill or 50% Plan which was harsher. The 3 amendments 13 14 15: freedom,
equality, and voting, were not enforced. The compromise of 1877 ended
Reconstruction. It is important because it reunited the states.
✔✔King Cotton - ✔✔Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so
important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize
the South as an independent nations and supply it with loans and arms.
✔✔James Forten - ✔✔He felt blacks should remain in America
, ✔✔Reform Era - ✔✔In this era, black leaders looked to strengthen free African
American communities as a way to demonstrate to white Americans their right to full
fledged citizenship. They preached the doctrine of self improvement and believed
education was the best means of building their communities, finding work, and proving
their worthiness.
✔✔Martin Delany - ✔✔Born free and traveled N. American
Believed in the colonization of blacks abroad
Assisted Douglas in The North Star
Led the 52nd Regiment for the Union
Traveled to Liberia and Nigeria
Helped the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War
Opened a medical practice
✔✔Maria Stewart - ✔✔Born free
Used religion in her speeches
Thrift, sobriety, and religion = Happiness
1st woman whose speeches were published, 1831
Advocate for Black Women's Rights
Became a teacher in New York, 1833
✔✔Amistad, 1839 - ✔✔Joseph Cinque
Spanish slave ship that went to Cuba
Insurrection on the ship
Ultimately sent to Sierra Leone
✔✔Transdentalist - ✔✔A person who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as
a way of understanding life relationships.
✔✔Missouri Compromise - ✔✔(1819) Missouri would enter as a slave state
*If one free state is admitted one slave state would be as well
Drew a line at the southern border of Missouri and made it so that slave states could no
longer be admitted above that line
✔✔Trail of Tears - ✔✔The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands and move
to Oklahoma. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee,
Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold,
disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.
✔✔Compromise of 1877 - ✔✔Republicans promised that if Hayes were elected, he
would withdraw federal troops from South, letting Republican governments there
collapse, and Democrats promised to withdraw their opposition to Hayes
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Mexican American War - ✔✔War between U.S. and Mexico over territory in the
southwest. Polk wanted to also wanted California/New Mexico region. in 1846, he
resorted to an aggressive method by sending troops to disputed area. US declared war
on Mexico when hostilities arose. Americans captured Mexico City. The war ended with
the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe. After that, the US had over half of Mexican land.
This is the number one cause of the civil war. Mexico ceded all claims north of the Rio
Grande which included California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona, Wyoming.
✔✔Manifest Destiny - ✔✔Popular expression in the 1840's. It was the belief that the US
was "destined" to spread from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. It had 4
justifications: race-whites over Indians, religion- protestants over Catholics, ethnicity-
Anglo over Latinos, and politics-republic over monarchy. This brought on the civil war.
✔✔Civil War - ✔✔The period of warfare between the Confederate States of America
(1861-1865) and the United States over the issues of states' rights and slavery.
✔✔Reconstruction - ✔✔The period after the Civil War from 1865-1877 in the United
States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
There were competing plans for this including Lincoln's lenient 10% plan and Wade-
Davis Bill or 50% Plan which was harsher. The 3 amendments 13 14 15: freedom,
equality, and voting, were not enforced. The compromise of 1877 ended
Reconstruction. It is important because it reunited the states.
✔✔King Cotton - ✔✔Confederate belief during the Civil War that their cotton was so
important to the British and French economies that those governments would recognize
the South as an independent nations and supply it with loans and arms.
✔✔James Forten - ✔✔He felt blacks should remain in America
, ✔✔Reform Era - ✔✔In this era, black leaders looked to strengthen free African
American communities as a way to demonstrate to white Americans their right to full
fledged citizenship. They preached the doctrine of self improvement and believed
education was the best means of building their communities, finding work, and proving
their worthiness.
✔✔Martin Delany - ✔✔Born free and traveled N. American
Believed in the colonization of blacks abroad
Assisted Douglas in The North Star
Led the 52nd Regiment for the Union
Traveled to Liberia and Nigeria
Helped the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War
Opened a medical practice
✔✔Maria Stewart - ✔✔Born free
Used religion in her speeches
Thrift, sobriety, and religion = Happiness
1st woman whose speeches were published, 1831
Advocate for Black Women's Rights
Became a teacher in New York, 1833
✔✔Amistad, 1839 - ✔✔Joseph Cinque
Spanish slave ship that went to Cuba
Insurrection on the ship
Ultimately sent to Sierra Leone
✔✔Transdentalist - ✔✔A person who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as
a way of understanding life relationships.
✔✔Missouri Compromise - ✔✔(1819) Missouri would enter as a slave state
*If one free state is admitted one slave state would be as well
Drew a line at the southern border of Missouri and made it so that slave states could no
longer be admitted above that line
✔✔Trail of Tears - ✔✔The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands and move
to Oklahoma. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee,
Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold,
disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.
✔✔Compromise of 1877 - ✔✔Republicans promised that if Hayes were elected, he
would withdraw federal troops from South, letting Republican governments there
collapse, and Democrats promised to withdraw their opposition to Hayes
