AP US HISTORY UNIT 6 GUIDE
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KEY PEOPLE
Dorthea Dix
James Russell Lowell
Stephen Foster
Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Fenimore Cooper
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
William Cullen Bryant
Francis Parkman
Brigham Young
Horace Greeley
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Denmark Vesey
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Winfield Scott
Zachary Taylor
James K. Polk
John Slidell
David Wilmot
John C. Fremont
Stephen Douglas
Harriet Tubman
William H. Seward
James Gadsden
Millard Fillmore
KEY CONCEPTS
American Temperance Society
Unitarianism
Second Great Awakening
Transcendentalism
Mormons
Abolitionism
The Liberator
American Anti-Slavery Society
Peculiar Institution
Manifest Destiny
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Bear Flag Revolt
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Free Soil Party
Fugitive Slave Law
Underground Railroad
Compromise of 1850
Clayton-Bulwar Treaty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Ostend Manifesto
POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS
1. Why did women prove so prominent in the reform crusade of the early
nineteenth century? What contributions did they make to social reform?
2. Explain why the "gag resolution" symbolized the threat that slavery constituted
for all Americans, both North and South.
3. Write your definition of aggression. Then use this definition to argue that the
war against Mexico was or was not a war of American aggression.
4. Explain the widespread popularity of the concept of popular sovereignty as a
way to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories. Then explain why, ultimately, it
failed.