7T Social Studies Assignments

Be able to analyze a political cartoon

Use information in a chart and/or graph to answer questions

Know the following information:

• Alien and Sedition Acts
• George Washington’s views on foreign policy.
• Positive and negative effects of Jefferson’s effort to reduce the size of the federal government and the Embargo Act.
• Policies of Andrew Jackson
• How political changes influenced the growing democratic spirit in the U.S by the 1840s
• Importance of new inventions, railroads, and clipper ships to the northern economy.
• Effect of the Industrial Revolution on the United States and the economic changes it brought to the nation, its impact on women, daily life, and population trends.
• Growth of the antislavery movement in the U.S. Know how the activities and goals of abolitionists changed from the early to mid-1800s.
• Women’s rights movement in the mid-1800s and their reform efforts.
• Mexican-American War agreements
• Cultures in California in the 1840s and 1850s.

Chapter 12 Study Guide

Pretest Thursday 5/31/18

Test Monday 6/4/18

Key Terms and People:

Frederick Douglass

Women’s suffrage

Abolitionist

Henry David Thoreau

Transcendentalism

Horace Mann

Please know the following:

• Roles of women in the 1800s
• What artists of the period focused on
• Reason for reform movements
• Women’s rights movement
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Location of most public elementary schools
• Similarities and differences between American Colonization Society, Underground Railroad, Hudson River School

Describe the growth of the antislavery movement in the U.S. Explain how the activities and goals of those against slavery changed from the early to the mid-1800s.