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. Missouri Compromise of 1820 Nully Nullification Controversy of 1832 Almost Abolitionism Gagged Gag Rule, 1836 When Wilmot Proviso, 1848 Clay's Compromise of 1850 (PopFACT) Kangaroo Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 Bit Bleeding Kansas John's John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, 1859 Ear Election of 1860

ID TERMS FOR UNIT SIX CHAPTERS 15-16-17-18 Remember your test covers BOTH class discussions & textbook.

1. Antebellum 2. Second Great Awakening 3. Revivalism 4. Mormons 5. Transcendentalists 6. Utopias 7. Feminists 8. Shakers 9. Hudson River School 10. Temperance 11. Dorothea Dix 12. Women’s rights movement: Seneca Falls and key leaders 13. Abolitionists 14. Frederick Douglass 15. Harriet Tubman 16. Sojourner Truth 17. Nat Turner 18. Slave resistance and rebellion 19. Slave culture 20. Manifest destiny 21. Texas and Mexican War: Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, Alamo, John Tyler 22. Oregon Territory 23. Wilmot Proviso 24. California and Gold 25. Great American Desert 26. Compromise of 1850 27. Underground Railroad 28. Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom’s Cabin 29. Kansas-Nebraska Act 30. Know-Nothing Party 31. “bleeding Kansas” 32. John Brown 33. Sumner-Brooks caning 34. Dred Scott v. Sandford 35. Election of 1860