Write a brief paragraph on each term for 20 of your choice. You may not cut and paste, and you may not do this as group work; it is expected to be your own words and your own work.
This will help you prepare for the exam, as well, and represents a useful tool for your references during the exam. remember you are turning this in before the exam, so it behooves you to do it well! This represents a portion of your grade and is not optional or suggested. ïÂÅ
Manifest destiny
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wm. Henry Harrison
whig party
Jackson’s bank war
Nicholas Biddle
Nicholas Trist
Winfield Scott
the Alamo
Omnibus package
Daniel Webster’s 7th of March
Dred Scott Decision
Kansas Nebraska Act
Fugitive slave act
Harriet Tubman
Stephen Douglas
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Zachary Taylor
James Polk
Missouri Compromise
nullification crisis
Nat Turner
henry cabot lowell
putting out system
Wilmot proviso
secession of 1860
Fort Sumter
Confederate Congress
agrarian vs. industrial
Bull Run, Manassas Creek
Seward’s folly
King Cotton
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Anaconda plan
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
war of attrition
Vicksburg
Gen. Wm. Sherman
Appomattox
Lincoln’s assasination
reconstruction
What are the significant political differences (between North and South, or between the parties) that make compromise possible in the 1850 Omnibus Bill (“the great Compromiseâ€Â) but impossible in 1860?
What were the respective viewpoints on slavery in the US?
Why was the Fugitive Slave Act such a controversial law; and to whom?
Evaluate the outcome of the Seneca Falls convention of 1849
What were the causes of the Mexican-American war?
Why was James Polk’s declaration of war with Mexico controversial? What were his real goals?
Why was Andrew Jackson so fixated on eliminating the 2nd national bank?
Explore the emergence of the Whig party; why? To whom did it appeal?
Why did Jackson, a southerner, fight S. Carolina in the nullification crisis? How does this serve as a warning for the Civil War?
Explore the Indian Removal Act of 1830; how does this action fit in with the civil rights movements of abolition and women’s rights?
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