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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.
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Manifest destiny |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
Wm. Henry Harrison |
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whig party |
Jackson’s bank war |
Nicholas Biddle |
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Nicholas Trist |
Winfield Scott |
the Alamo |
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Omnibus package |
Daniel Webster’s 7th of March |
Dred Scott Decision |
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Kansas Nebraska Act |
Fugitive slave act |
Harriet Tubman |
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Stephen Douglas |
Frederick Douglass |
John Brown |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Zachary Taylor |
James Polk |
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Missouri Compromise |
nullification crisis |
Nat Turner |
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henry cabot lowell |
putting out system |
Wilmot proviso |
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secession of 1860 |
Fort Sumter |
Confederate Congress |
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agrarian vs. industrial |
Bull Run, Manassas Creek |
Seward’s folly |
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King Cotton |
Jefferson Davis |
Robert E. Lee |
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Anaconda plan |
Emancipation Proclamation |
Gettysburg Address |
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war of attrition |
Vicksburg |
Gen. Wm. Sherman |
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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 Compromise”) 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?