APUSH Unit 6- Manifest Destiny & Sectionalism Test Review Guide
** Use the compelling questions (who, what, where, when, especially WHY and HOW) to identify and
explain the historical significance of each.
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Missouri Compromise of 1820 (Chapter 12)
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Andrew Jackson and the Marysville Road Bill (Chapter 13)
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Nativism (Chapter 14)
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William Henry Harrison (Chapter 13)
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Whig Party (Chapter 13)
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Reform Movements (Chapter 15)
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Economic consequences of the transportation/marketing revolutions (Chapter 14)
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Election of 1824 (Chapter 13)
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American Indians and Supreme Court decisions (Chapter 13)
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McCulloch v. Maryland (Chapter 12)
Chapter 16
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Slave Society in the South
Planter “Aristocracy” and profitability
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Frederick Douglass
“gag rule” in Congress
Chapter 17
Ø Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Ø “54° 40' or Fight”
Ø Manifest Destiny
Ø Mexican War
Ø John Tyler and the Whig Party
Ø “spot resolutions”
Ø Opposition to President Polk’s expansionist platform
Chapter 18
Ø Wilmot Proviso
Ø California gold rush
Ø Compromise of 1850
Ø Popular Sovereignty
Ø Gadsden Purchase
Ø Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Ø Franklin Pierce and his foreign “adventures”
Chapter 19
Ø Election of 1860
Ø Lincoln’s view of John Brown’s Harper’s Ferry raid
Ø Sumner-Butler-Brooks clash
Ø Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ø Dred Scott case
Ø Lecompton Constitution
Ø Panic of 1857
Ø Northerners reactions to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Ø “Bleeding Kansas”
Ø Hinton R. Helper
Ø John Brown’s impact on the North and South
Ø Crittenden Compromise