Reform & Westward Expansion

CHAPTER 2 Guided Reading Strategies 2.1

1. Andrew Jackson:a. What number (President) is he? When was he elected?

i. 7th US President, elected in 1828b. Why was he known as a representative of the “common man?”

i. He was know as a representative of the common man because he was born to poor Irish immigrants and had little early education

c. Why was he famous before he was the President?i. Jackson was a military hero in the War of 1812

2. Trail of TearsWho was involved? Cherokee peopleWhat is it? Jackson ordered the relocation of Native Americans across the MississippiWhen did it happen? It happened in 1838 to the CherokeesWhere:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Trail_of_tears_map_NPS.jpg

How many Native Americans were moved? Over 16,000How many died along the way? Between 2,000 and 6,000Why did this happen? The land the Cherokee were on was forcible signed over to the US

3. How did the 2nd Great Awakening encourage reform? How does civil disobedience relate?

a. The 2nd Great Awakening was marked by outdoor camp meetings that could have lasted as long as a week. This movement encouraged the belief that people could and should work to achieve a state of moral perfection. Like civil disobedience, there were larger gatherings of people in a possible state of turmoil.

4. What is a transcendentalist? What famous person from today might be considered a transcendentalist? – why do you think so? Go find a symbol/picture that you think would be a good representation of transcendentalism and paste it here.

a. A transcendentalist is someone who thinks that it is important to follow one’s conscience and that people should refuse to obey laws they consider to be immoral. Batman is a transcendentalist. He breaks the law and fights cops and criminals alike for what he believes to be the greater good.

5. INFOGRAPHIC: Read it – How did Harriet Tubman’s method of opposing slavery differ from those of Garrison and Douglas?

a. Both Garrison and Douglas talked about how slavery was bad where Tubman actively helped people escape slavery.

6. List the two main (Most Important) conditions of the Missouri Compromise.a. Missouri could enter the Union as a slave state so long as a free state (Maine) was

admitted at the same time7.  36°30′N altitude was set as the dividing line between slave territory and free territory

(until the 1840s when abolitionists began to increase the outcry against slavery)