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Unit Review: Westward Expansion and Sectionalism
1. What is Manifest Destiny?
2. Label the regions as they existed in 1853.
United States
Original 13 Colonies
Louisiana Purchase
Oregon Country
Florida
British Territory
Texas Annexation
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
3. Label the following on the map:
Mississippi River – blue
Rocky Mountains – purple
Appalachian Mountains – brown
4. What was President James Polk’s policy regarding territorial expansion?
5. Why did the U.S. go to war with Mexico in 1846?
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6. What climate and geographical features contributed to the development of the plantation
system in the South?
7. Why did many settlers rush to California in 1849?
8. The Mexican Cession includes which states of today?
9. How was the issue of slavery decided in the land acquired in the Mexican Cession?
10. The Gadsden Purchase includes parts of which states of today?
11. What river did Texas and President Polk regard as the Texas-Mexico border?
12. How did the U.S. acquire Florida?
13. What is sectionalism?
14. What was the economy based on in the South?
15. What was the economy based on in the North?
16. What are THREE elements of The Missouri Compromise?
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17. Why would southern states find it so important to keep a balance of slave states and free
states?
18. What was the impact of The Missouri Compromise on the issue of slavery?
19. What are FOUR elements included in The Compromise of 1850?
20. What was the impact of The Compromise of 1850 on the issue of slavery?
21. What elements of The Compromise of 1850 did the North favor? What elements of The
Compromise of 1850 did the South favor?
22. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
23. What was the social impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
24. Why did a newspaper columnist refer to the Kansas Territory as “Bleeding Kansas”?
25. Who was Dred Scott?
26. What were the THREE main pints in the Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford?
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27. What was the northern reaction to the Dred Scott ruling? What was the southern reactions to
the Dred Scott ruling?
28. Who was John Brown?
29. What was his impact on the riots in the Kansas Territory?
30. What happened in John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
31. What was the northern reaction to the hanging of John Brown? What was the southern reaction
to the hanging of John Brown?
32. How was the Republican Party formed in the 1850’s?
33. What was the goal of the Republican Party?
34. What was the reaction in both the north and the south to the formation of this new party?
35. What was the southern reaction to Lincoln’s election in 1860?
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