Liberty University HIUS 221 Final Exam Questions and Answers Fully Solved

Liberty University HIUS 221 Final Exam Questions and Answers Fully Solved Week 10 - Answers Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny - Answers The U.S. government led the push to expand the country's borders (first half of the 19th century) - Thomas Jefferson was president - Louisiana Purchas in 1803, doubled the size of the country - Lewis and Clark Expedition, explore west, est. relationships w/ Native Americans Manifest Destiny - Answers Idea proposed by the newspaper editor John L. O'sullivan in the 1845's that the U.S. was destined to grow from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Arctic to the tropics. Government sold land to encourage settlement on the new lands - Answers - The Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 clarified the border between the U.S. and Canada at the 49th parallel - Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, the U.S. claimed all territories east of the Mississippi River alng a norther border to Oregon and the Pacific, while SPain retained the region from Texas to Cali. Land hunger in the early 1840's - Answers Land-hunger was described using the concept of manifest destiny - Asserted that the U.S. was divinely inspired to expand across the continent and beyond Natives and Newcomers - Answers - The demand for land by the white man greatly hurt and affected the Natives - Indian Removal Act set aside land in Oklahoma for Native Americans who would be forcibly moved there from their lands in Georgia and Florida - President Jackosn ordered that the Natives move..... resulting in the Trail of Tears - Seminoles from FL fought removal but ultimately left Forty-Ninth Parallel - Answers Line created to est. the boundaries of U.S. from Canada (Treaty of 1818) Trails to the West - Answers As people suffered through the severe economic depression in 1837, migration to the West seemed increasingly attractive. People initially traveled with their families but then the gold rush happened and it became a lot of single men - Mormons also went west Indian Removal Act 1830 - Answers Congressional legislation that set aside land in the Oklahoma Territory for American Indians who were to be removed from the eastern US. Resulting in the "Trail of Tears" The U.S. War with Mexico - Answers U.S. government desired the lands Mexico controlled in western North America, but Mexico said nahh. Mexico also rejected Texas's declaration of independence in 1836, but then America annexed Texas in 1845. - U.S. won the war which lasted from Weeks 11 & 12 - Answers The Compromise of 1850 - Answers Tensions rose when California sought to join the Union, as a free state in 1850. The terms of the compromise are - California admitted as a free state - Slavery kept legal in D.C., slave trade was a abolished there tho - Fugitive Slave act: Northerners had to return runaway slaves Harriet Beecher Stowe - Answers Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852, most important abolitionist novel The Crisis in Kansas - Answers - Northerners cont. to fear that slavery's expansion into the West would lead to the rise of a southern slave power - Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 left it up to the settlers to decide for themselves whether to form a free or slave societies, a concept known as popular sovereignty - The situation became violent over a three-day period in May 1856 that became known as "Bleeding Kansas" Popular Sovereignty (in Kansas) - Answers Concept that settlers of each territory would decide for themselves wheter to alow slavery or nah - Proslavery forces in Kansas set up a slave government - Antislavery Kansas set up a free government