AP US HISTORY UNIT 6 GUIDE Covering Pageant Chapters 15-18

KEY PEOPLE Harriet Tubman Dorthea Dix William H. Seward James Russell Lowell James Gadsden Stephen Foster Millard Fillmore Oliver Wendell Holmes James Fenimore Cooper KEY CONCEPTS Elizabeth Cady Stanton American Temperance Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarianism Henry David Thoreau Second Great Awakening Walt Whitman Transcendentalism William Cullen Bryant Mormons Francis Parkman Abolitionism Brigham Young The Liberator Horace Greeley American Anti-Slavery Society Harriet Beecher Stowe Peculiar Institution Denmark Vesey Manifest Destiny William Lloyd Garrison Webster-Ashburton Treaty Nat Turner Bear Flag Revolt Sojourner Truth Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Frederick Douglass Wilmot Proviso Elijah P. Lovejoy Popular Sovereignty Winfield Scott Free Soil Party Zachary Taylor Fugitive Slave Law James K. Polk Underground Railroad John Slidell Compromise of 1850 David Wilmot Clayton-Bulwar Treaty John C. Fremont Kansas-Nebraska Act Stephen Douglas Ostend Manifesto

POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

1. Why did women prove so prominent in the reform crusade of the early nineteenth century? What contributions did they make to social reform?

2. Explain why the "gag resolution" symbolized the threat that slavery constituted for all Americans, both North and South.

3. Write your definition of aggression. Then use this definition to argue that the war against Mexico was or was not a war of American aggression.

4. Explain the widespread popularity of the concept of popular sovereignty as a way to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories. Then explain why, ultimately, it failed.