QUESTIONS TO PONDER:
1. Analyze several factors that led to American expansion in the 1840s.
2. To what extent did American expansionists achieve their goals between 1840 and 1848?
3. Compare and contrast American expansionism during “Manifest Destiny” in the 1840s with
expansionism in the years between 1800 and 1840. (You may have to review Unit 4).
4. To what extent was President James K. Polk successful in achieving his political goals during his
presidency?
1. Analyze the extent to which the Second Great Awakening transformed American religion in the
years prior to the Civil War.
2. Identify major reform movements of the Second Great Awakening. To what extent were
reformers during the Second Great Awakening successful in achieving their goals?
1. Identify and analyze several important factors that led to the Civil War.
2. Compare and contrast Northern and Southern views regarding the Constitution and how it
should be used to settle the issues dividing antebellum America. Which region’s arguments were
MOST persuasive from a Constitutional standpoint?
3. Why did the three major compromises—Missouri Compromise (1820), the Tariff of 1833 (that
resolved the 1832 nullification crisis) and the Compromise of 1850—fail to prevent sectionalism
and Civil War? (You may need to review the 1820 and 1833 compromises to answer this
question).
4. From a legal and economic standpoint, to what extent were Southerners justified in fearing
Northern views and actions regarding slavery in antebellum America?
5. To what extent was the Civil War inevitable?
Memory Aid for Compromise of 1850: “PopFACT”
Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Cession
Fugitive Slave Law
Abolition of slave trade in Washington, D.C.
California admitted as a state
Texas given $10 million for disputed Mexican territory.
MEMORY AID: CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
Mrs.
Nully
Almost
Gagged
When
Clay's
Kangaroo
Bit
John's
Ear
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Nullification Controversy of 1832
Abolitionism
Gag Rule, 1836
Wilmot Proviso, 1848
Compromise of 1850 (PopFACT)
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, 1859
Election of 1860
ID TERMS FOR UNIT SIX
CHAPTERS 15-16-17-18
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Antebellum
Second Great Awakening
Revivalism
Mormons
Transcendentalists
Utopias
Feminists
Shakers
Hudson River School
Temperance
Dorothea Dix
Women’s rights movement: Seneca Falls
and key leaders
Abolitionists
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Nat Turner
Slave resistance and rebellion
Slave culture
Manifest destiny
Texas and Mexican War: Stephen Austin,
Sam Houston, Alamo, John Tyler
Oregon Territory
Wilmot Proviso
California and Gold
Great American Desert
Compromise of 1850
Underground Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Know-Nothing Party
“bleeding Kansas”
John Brown
Sumner-Brooks caning
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Election of 1860