• 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)