Exam Preparation Assignment
Unit 5A:
Antebellum Tensions
Why?
[1844 – 1861]
How do you prepare of an exam? I am a big supporter of
actively preparing for a unit exam. To this end, this assignment
is offered as a way to actively prepare for the unit 5 exam.
Please complete each of the following steps.
Reviewing the Terms:
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Highlight the Victories in Blue [Those terms that improved the United States – no more than
10].
Next circle 7 of the following the most important political terms (treaties, laws, Supreme
Court decisions, etc.)
Place an X next to terms relating to slavery during this period.
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Place a  mark next to terms relating to American expansion during this period.
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Do overs!
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Underline the 5 terms that are low points in American history.
Chapter 16
1.
“King Cotton”
2.
Planter Aristocracy
3.
Sir Walter Scott
4.
“Gag Resolution”
5.
mulattos
6.
Nat Turner
7.
Denmark Vesey
8.
Frederick Douglass
9.
Sojourner Truth
10. Theodore Dwight Weld
11. Elijah P. Lovejoy
12. “peculiar institution”
13. Harriet Beecher Stowe
14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
15. William Lloyd Garrison
16. The Liberator
17. American Anti-Slavery
Society
18. Lane Theological
Seminary
19. American Colonization
Society
Chapter 17
20. Manifest Destiny
21. John O’Sullivan
22. William Henry Harrison
23. Lone Star Republic
24. John Tyler
25. James K. Polk
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44.
John Slidell
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Nicholas P. Trist
Robert Gray
Mexican War
“all of Mexico”
“spot” resolutions
Lord Ashburton
John C. Fremont
Stephen W. Kearny
“conscience” Whigs
Caroline
Creole
Bear Flag revolt
Liberty Party
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Aroostook War
Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo
Chapter 18
45.
Zachary Taylor
46.
Winfield Scott
47.
Gadsden Purchase
48.
Gold Rush
49.
Daniel Webster
50.
Henry Clay
51.
Franklin Pierce
52.
Matthew C. Perry
53.
Millard Fillmore
54.
Harriet Tubman
55.
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69.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
popular sovereignty
“personal liberty laws”
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Underground Railroad
Free Soil party
Fugitive Slave Law
Compromise of 1850
Ostend Manifesto
“fire eaters”
“higher law”
Lewis Cass
Wilmot Proviso
William H. Seward
Stephen A. Douglas
Chapter 19
70.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
71.
John Bell
72.
Hinton R. Helper
73.
Dred Scott
74.
Roger B. Taney
75.
John Brown
76.
Panic of 1857
77.
Sumner-Brooks Clash
78.
James Buchanan
79.
John C. Breckenridge
80.
self-determination
81.
Southern nationalism
82.
Crittenden Compromise
83.
Lecompton Constitution
84.
Freeport Doctrine
85.
86.
87.
The Impending Crisis of
the South
“Bleeding Kansas”
Harpers Ferry raid
88.
89.
Pottawatomie Creek
massacre
New England Emigrant
Aid
90.
91.
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Horace Greeley
Big Ideas
1. Provide evidence in support of each of the following themes.
 effects of slavery as an economic and social institution
 debate regarding abolitionists – are they fanatics or reformers?
 emergence of Sectionalism over issues of expansion and morality
 consequences of the belief in Manifest Destiny and the resultant was with Mexico
 limitations of compromise during the antebellum period
 economic, social, and political causes of the Civil War
2. Was America during this era better defined by its expansion or slavery?
3. Which event had the greatest impact on the average American?
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Panic of 1857
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Bleeding Kansas
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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Sumner-Brooks Clash
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Mexican-American War
For each of the following lists, be sure to provide specific historical evidence
to support your selections.
4. Rank the compromise efforts to resolve the issue of slavery. The most successful should be
listed first.
5. Rank the 3 most significant abolitionists from this era.
6. Rank the 3 most significant Americans in regards to their impact on expansion.
7. Rank the 3 most important political figures and the 3 least important political figures.