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AP US: Homework Sheet Unit 6

Crisis of the Union and Manifest Destiny

Class Activities Homework Due In Class Today Date

Tues

11/13

Discussion of Slavery and Abolition

Chapter 17 part 1(pages 360-370)

Block

11/14

Finish Slavery and Abolition

Discussion of Unit 5 Test

Finish Organizing Essays and Learning to

Write Paragraphs

Friday

11/16

Manifest Destiny

Chapter 17 part 2 (pages 370-378)

Documents 1 - 5

Be prepared to discuss questions at the end of Document 3

Bring your writing notebook

Chapter 18 part 1 (pages 380-390)

Document 6

Mon

11/26

War with Mexico

Chapter 18 part 2 (pages 390-398)

Documents 7 and 8

Tues

11/27

Sectional Crises

Block

11/28

Work on Writing – in class essay

Friday

11/30

Manifest Destiny at Home and Abroad

Receive Unit 6 Review

Mon

12/3

Crisis of Union

Chapter 19 part 1 (pages 400-411)

Documents 9 and 10

Bring Notebook to Class

Chapter 19 part 2 (pages 411-418)

Chapter 20 part 1 (pages 420-432)

Documents 11 and 12

Tues

12/4

Path to War

Chapter 20 part 2 (pages 432-443)

Block

12/6

Civil War Bake Off

Work on Review

Bring your bake off entry

Bring your Review Sheet

Friday

12/7

Unit 6 Test

Receive Unit 7 HW

Receive Winter Break Assignment

Sources Used this Unit:

Unit 6 Review

Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American

Pageant: A History of the Republic . Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11 th

Edition.

Unit 6: Crisis of the Union and Manifest Destiny

Content Covered

Southern Life and Economy:

King Cotton; Planter Aristocracy; The White Majority in the South

Slavery:

The Slave System; Free Blacks; Plantation Slavery; Slave Life

Differing Views on Slavery:

Abolitionism; Radical Abolitionism; Southern Reaction to Abolitionism; Underground Railroad;

Literary Opposition to Slavery

Politics:

John Tyler; Polk; Taylor; Pierce; Buchanan; Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Split in the Democrats;

Electoral Upheaval of 1860

Economics:

Crash of 1857; Economics of Slavery

Attempts to Deal with the “Slavery Issue”:

Popular Sovereignty; Sectional Balance; Compromise over Slavery; Kansas – Nebraska; Bleeding

Kansas; Sumner and Brooks; Dred Scott; John Brown and Harper’s Ferry; Secession

Manifest Destiny:

Maine and the “Aroostook War”; Texas; Oregon; Mandate” for Manifest Destiny; California

Gold; Railroads and the Gadsden Purchase

External Conflict:

Issues with England; Mexican War; Cuba

Primary Reading

American Pageant: Chapters 17-20

Secondary Reading

Differing Points of View on Slavery:

1.

James Hammond Proclaims Cotton King (1858) – Document 18-E-3 TAS V1 (ps 397-398)

2.

Differing Views on Abolition: Daniel Webster is Critical (1850) AND Abraham Lincoln

Appraises Abolitionism (1854) – Documents 18-D-1&2 TAS V1 (ps 392-394)

Life Under Slavery:

3.

Points of View: Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831) – From America Firsthand V1. Pages 198-213

4.

Life Under the Lash – From America Firsthand V1. Pages 222-228

5.

Visual Portfolio: Slavery and Freedom - From America Firsthand V1. Pages 253-262

Manifest Destiny:

6.

The Debate over Oregon – Documents 19-B-1,2,3,&4 TAS V1 (ps 402-407)

7.

President James Polk Justifies the Texas Coup (1845) – Document 19-C-2 TAS V1 (ps 409-410)

8.

Mexico Remembers the Despoilers (1935) – Document 19-E-4 TAS V1 (ps 418-420) Secondary

Source

9.

The Gold Rush

. From Through Women’s Eyes. Pages 210-213.

Secondary Source

Dealing with the “Slavery Issue”:

10.

The Compromise Debates of 1850 – Documents 20-B-1,2,&3 TAS V1 (ps 423-428)

11.

The Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Documents 21-A-1,2,&3 TAS V1 (ps 438-443)

12.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates – Documents 21-D-1&2 TAS V1 (ps 449-451)

I.

1.

2.

3.

Chapter 17: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

Harriet Beecher Stowe

William Lloyd Garrison

Denmark Vesey

6.

7.

8.

Sojourner Truth

Theodore Dwight Weld

Frederick Douglass

4.

5.

David Walker

Nat Turner

9.

10.

Arthur and Lewis Tappan

Elijah P. Lovejoy

II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:

11. oligarchy 13.

“positive good”

12. abolitionism

III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:

14. Cotton Kingdom

15. The Liberator

20.

21.

Lane rebels gag resolution

16.

17.

18.

19. mulattoes

American Anti-Slavery Society peculiar institution

Liberty Party

22. American Colonization Society

23. cotton gin

24.

“black belt”

25. hillbillies

IV. Essay Questions:

26. Describe the complex structure of southern society. What role did plantation owners, small slaveholders, independent white farmers, poor whites, free blacks, and black slaves each have in the southern social order?

27. Compare the attitudes and practices regarding slavery and race relations in the North and the

South. Explain the common statement that southerners liked blacks as individuals but despised the race, while northerners claimed to like blacks as a race but disliked individuals (p. 364)

28. How did the reliance on cotton production and slavery affect the South economically, socially, and morally, and how did this reliance affect its relations with the North?

29. How did slavery affect the lives of African-Americans in both the South and the North?

30. A large majority of Americans, both North and South, strongly rejected radical abolitionism.

Why, then, did abolitionism and antislavery come to shape American politics in the 1840s and 1850s?

Chapter 18: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

I.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

John Tyler

John Slidell

Winfield Scott

Zachary Taylor

Nicholas P. Trist

6.

7.

8.

9.

James K. Polk

Stephen W. Kearney

Robert Gray

John C. Frémont

II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:

10. Manifest Destiny

III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:

11. Fiscal Bank

12. Webster-Ashburton Treaty

13.

“spot” resolutions

19. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

20. Creole

14.

15.

16. Bear Flag Revolt

17.

Tariff of 1842

“conscience” Whigs

Caroline

18. Hudson’s Bay Company

21. Liberty Party

22.

“all of Mexico”

23. Aroostook War

24. Walker Tariff

25. Wilmot Proviso

IV. Essay Questions:

26.

What led to the rise of the spirit of “Manifest Destiny” in the 1840s, and how did that spirit show itself in the American expansionism of the decade?

27. How did rivalry with Britain affect the American decision to annex Texas, the Oregon dispute, and other lesser controversies of he period?

28. Why did the crucial election of 1844 come to be fought over expansionism, and how did Polk exercise his “mandate” for expansion in his attempt to obtain California?

29. What were the causes and consequences of the Mexican War?

30. Most Americans believed that expansion across North America was their “destiny.” Was expansion actually inevitable? What forces might have stopped it? How would American history changed if, say, the Mexican War had not occurred?

Chapter 19: Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

I.

1.

2.

3.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

Lewis Cass

Stephan A. Douglas

Franklin Pierce

7.

8.

9.

Matthew C. Perry

Harriet Tubman

William H. Seward

4.

5.

6.

Zachary Taylor

John C. Calhoun

Winfield Scott

10.

11.

12.

James Gadsen

Henry Clay

Millard Fillmore

II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:

13. popular sovereignty

III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:

14. Free Soil Party

15. Fugitive Slave Law

16.

“conscience” Whigs

17.

“personal liberty laws”

18. Underground Railroad

21.

22.

23.

24.

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Seventh of March Speech

Ostend Manifesto

“higher law”

25. Kansas-Nebraska Act 19. Compromise of 1850

20.

“fire eaters”

IV. Essay Questions:

26. What urgent issues created the crisis leading up to the Compromise of 1850?

27. What was the effect of the morally powerful slavery debate on American political parties? What caused the demise of the Whig Party, and the rise of the Free Soil and Republican parties?

28. How did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to deal with the most difficult issues concerning slavery? Was the Compromise a “success?” By what standard?

29. Why were proslavery southerners so eager to push for further expansion in Nicaragua, Cuba, and elsewhere in the 1850s?

30. What were the causes and consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Chapter 20: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

I.

1.

2.

3.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Hinton R. Helper

John Brown

6.

7.

8.

John C. Frémont

Roger Taney

John C. Breckenridge

4.

5.

James Buchanan

Charles Sumner

9. Abraham Lincoln

10. Jefferson Davis

II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:

11. southern nationalism

III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:

12.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

19. Dred Scott Decision

13.

14.

15.

The Impending Crisis of the South

Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

New England Immigrant Aid Society

20. panic of 1857

21. Lincoln-Douglas debates

22. Freeport Doctrine

16. LeCompton Constitution

17. “Bleeding Kansas”

18. American (Know-Nothing) Party

23. Harpers Ferry raid

24. Constitutional Union Party

25. Crittenden Compromise

IV. Essay Questions:

26. How did each of the crisis events of the 1850s help lead toward the Civil War?

27. How did the political developments of the period work to fragment the Democratic party and benefit the Republicans?

28. Explain the crucial role of Stephan A. Douglas in the political events of the 1850s. Why did

Douglas’s attempts to shove aside the conflict over slavery fail?

29. Could the Crittenden Compromise or some other proposal have prevented or at least postponed the

Civil War? Why was compromise successful in 1820 and 1850 but not in 1860?

30. How did the North and the South each view the various events of the 1850s? Why were their views so different?

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