UNIT 3 TEST REVIEW DAY
• Grab 1 Copy of each of the following for your table:
• Give Me Liberty
• Enduring Vision
• The AMSCO Book
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• How did the outcome of the Mexican – American War intensify intersectional conflict? Why did it split
the Democratic party?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What economic and political forces fed westward expansion during the 1840s?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• Describe immigration in the 1840s. How did this impact the Whigs and Democrats?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What did the compromise of 1850 do? How effective was it at staving off sectional conflict?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? What was its impact?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What led southerners to conclude that the North was bent not merely on restricting territorial slavery
bust also on extinguishing slavery in the southern states?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What were the advantages of the North and the South during the Civil War? How did these differences
influence the impact of the war?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What was the emancipation proclamation? What did it do? How did it mark a change in presidential
power?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What were the lasting impacts of the Civil War?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• Describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution and their impact on post-war America.
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What was presidential reconstruction? What was congressional reconstruction? Which policy
dominated reconstruction?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• What factors contributed to the end of reconstruction? (Think about factors in the north)
• Describe the controversy over the election of 1876. How did this lead to the compromise of 1877 that
ended reconstruction?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• Describe life for freedmen after the Civil War. How did they live, work, and build communities?
UNIT 3 TEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
• Was reconstruction a failure? Why or why not? (Give specific historic evidence!)