<p>AP U.S. History Mr. Oglesby Chapters 17& 18</p><p>Vocabulary Terms</p><p>Aroostook War Franklin Pierce Free Soil Party Spot Resolutions Kansas-Nebraska Act The Republican Party Filibuster Transcontinental R.R. The Gadsden Purchase Popular Sovereignty Commodore Matthew Perry’s Treaty Stephen Douglas Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Henry Clay Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman Ostend Manifesto Zachary Taylor William Seward John C. Calhoun Daniel Webster Abraham Lincoln</p><p>Important Questions</p><p>1. What was the difference between a Whig and a Democrat in 1841? What was the controversy with John Tyler? Why? How did Whigs and Democrats seek to further Manifest Destiny? </p><p>2. Why was America and Britain at odds? How does the rivalry reflect America’s belief in Manifest Destiny?</p><p>3. How were Texas and Oregon potential danger spots for America? Why? Why was the Texas annexation so controversial?</p><p>4. President Polk is considered the most successful American president - why? How did Polk further Manifest Destiny? Look at both long and short-term results.</p><p>5. What caused the Mexican War? Did Polk provoke the Texas-boundary conflict in order to gain California or expand slavery, as war opponents like Lincoln charged?</p><p>6. Was American expansion across North America an “inevitable” development? How was the idea of Manifest Destiny used to justify expansionism?</p><p>7. What was the effect of the morally powerful slavery debate on American political parties? What caused the demise of the Whig party, and the rise of the Free Soil and Republican parties?</p><p>8. Why were proslavery southerners so eager to push for further expansion in Nicaragua, Cuba, and elsewhere in the 1850s?</p><p>9. What fundamentally motivated the new American engagement with China and Japan in the 1840s and 1850s?</p><p>10. Because Senator Stephen A. Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act re-ignited the slavery issue after the Compromise of 1850, should he bear responsibility as an instigator of the Civil War? How and why might Civil War have come even if Douglas’s bill had not been enacted?</p>