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• What did John L. O’Sullivan mean by Manifest Destiny? (316)
• Why did Northerners like manifest destiny? (316)
• Why did Southerners like manifest destiny? (316)
• Why did some Americans not support manifest destiny? (316)
• What events led to the Texas Revolution? Read “Trouble Brews” (318-319) STOP READING AT THE ALAMO AND GOLIAD.
• “The American straggling adventurers were…beginning to work their dark intrigues [plots] against the native families, whose only crime was, that they owned large tracts of land and desirable property.” By Juan Seguin
• According to the above reading, Why did Seguin think U.S. settlers turned against Tejanos?
• What present-day states did the Mexican Cession include? (326)
• What present-day states did the Gadsden Purchase include? (327)
• Read “Science & Technology” at the top of page 337 and answer these two questions
1. How did Miners pan for gold?
2. What was the environmental impact of hydraulic mining?
• How did the California Gold Rush affect American Indians? (339)
• Using the Chart on Page 338 “California Gold, 1847-1855” answer this question: About how much more gold was mined in 1853 than in 1848?
• What was the so-called “gag rule” when it came to the issue of slavery? (344)
• Read “Clay’s Proposal” Pages 346-347 and answer the following question:
• How did Henry Clay propose to resolve the conflict over slavery?
• Who won the presidential election of 1848? (345-346)
• What was John C. Calhoun’s solution to guarantee the South’s rights? (349)
• Who won the Election of 1852? (350)
• Was that person a strong or weak leader and why? (350)
• What is the fugitive slave act? (351)
• What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and who introduced this? (354)
• What was the Northern and the Southern reaction to Uncle Tom’s Cabin? (352)
• What is the Lecompton Constitution? (357)
• Why did Senator Stephen Douglas attack the Lecompton Constitution (why didn’t he like it)? (357)
• What argument did the southerners use to justify their position to secede from the United States? (2nd Paragraph on page 363)
• Why did the northerners feel the south could not secede from the Union? (2nd Paragraph on page 363)
• Who won the presidential election of 1860? (362)
• What was the Crittenden Compromise and who proposed it? (368)
• What was Abraham Lincoln’s position on preserving the Union?(368)
• Using the map on page 370:
• Name the Confederate States.
• Name the Union States.
• Name the Border States?
• Who won the First Battle of Bull Run? (373-374)
• How did the First Battle of Bull Run affect the nation? (374)
• What did the Southerners call the First Battle of Bull Run? (373)
• Who was Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson? (373)