U.S. History Chapter 2 Section 4 Guided Reading

1. Why did women comprise the majority of the community leaders during the Temperance movement?

2. Sojourner Truth… she was a slave who went on a Journey to the North in order to speak the Truth about slavery. See what I just did there?

3. Women in the workplace- How did entering the workforce change women’s independence?

4. What two trends led women to enter the workforce?

5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were denied the right to speak at what conference? Where did it take place?

6. Seneca Falls Convention a. What did they draft that was based on the Declaration? b. Although it didn’t really do much, it marked the beginning of what? c. Suffrage… know what it means.

7. So, do women still lack respect in today’s society? Give me one example to back up your claim.

Section 5… Manifest Destiny

8. Those Americans who favored expanding into the West and South of America were known as?

9. The idea of Manifest Destiny was that Americans would come to own most or all of North America. What hope did Southern slaveholders hope would come from Manifest Destiny?

10. What was the most famous pass that led West?

11. Easy or tough for Americans who went west? What types of problems did they face?

12. How would Native Americans not changing their ways cause problems with Americans? 13. If Americans who settled in Texas agreed to become Mexican citizens, worshipped as Roman Catholics, and accepted the Mexican constitution (outlawed slavery), then what would they be given? What were these people called? More of them or less than actual Mexican citizens who settled in Texas?

14. Who led Mexico in the Mexican-American War? Most famous battle? (in America’s eyes) Who led the Americans?

15. Why did Northerners not want to annex Texas?

16. What did the 49th parallel establish? What was the argument concerning the Southern border?

17. What advantages did the U.S. have in the War?

18. How much did the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo increase the size of the U.S.?

19. They found gold in CA. What was the % population increase from 1847 to 1852?

20. What group was most discriminated against by White Americans?

21. Life was (good / bad) in mining camps. Choose one.

22. What was the controversy about allowing California into the Union? Ridiculous… you know why.

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