Unit 6 Study Guide
All test questions are derived from the key terms list and the questions on this study guide. QUESTIONS
FROM PAST UNITS WILL ALSO BE ON THIS TEST.
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What was the idea behind “Manifest Destiny?”
How did overlanders move west?
Explain the reasons that motivated people to move west.
Describe life on the western frontier.
What were the different planks of James K. Polk’s platform during the Election of 1844?
How did the country expand after Polk’s election?
How did northerners and Mexico react to the annexation of Texas?
What was the meaning behind the slogan, “Fifty-four forty or Fight!”
What were the terms of the Oregon Treaty?
Explain the causes of the Mexican-American War.
Which event sparked the beginning of the Mexican-American War?
Why did many northerners oppose the Mexican-American War?
What was the Wilmot Proviso, and how did southerners react to it?
Explain the four parts of the United States’ strategy to win the Mexican-American War.
What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What was the Mexican Cession?
How did the Mexican-American War relate to sectional tension over slavery?
Why did the Missouri Compromise fail?
What is popular sovereignty?
How did popular sovereignty fail?
What was the platform of the Free-Soil party?
Describe what happened in the California Gold Rush.
Describe the experience of Asian immigrants during the California Gold Rush.
How did the California Gold Rush relate to the issue of slavery?
What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?
How did the Compromise of 1850 benefit the North? The South?
How did the Fugitive Slave Act create more sectional tension in the United States?
How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin create more section tension in the United States?
What was the transcontinental railroad?
How did the transcontinental railroad relate to sectional tension in the United States?
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
What were the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act relate to section tension in the United States?
What was the platform of the Republican party, and how did southerners react?
Describe the events that occurred during “Bleeding Kansas.”
Who was John Brown?
Describe the events that occurred during the Caning of Charles Sumner.
Describe the ruling of Dred Scott v. Sandford.
How did Dred Scott v. Sandford relate to sectional tension in the United States?
What is the significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
What was the Freeport Doctrine?
What happened during John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry?
What happened during the Election of 1860?
How did the South react to the election of Abraham Lincoln?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
What was the Crittenden compromise, and why did it fail?
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What happened at Fort Sumter and how did it relate to the Civil War?
What were the border states?
Why was keeping Maryland in the Union so important?
How did Lincoln keep Maryland from seceding?
Describe the following causes of the Civil War:
a. Federal Power
b. Vision for Country
c. Western Expansion
d. Slavery
e. Election of Lincoln and Southern Secession
52. What was the purpose of the Civil War?
53. What was NOT the purpose of the Civil War, at first?