Reform Movements, The Mexican War and Western Expansion

 

Identification Items.

 

1.

The Second Great Awakening

13.

Manifest Destiny

22.

Gen. Zachary Taylor

2.

Charles Finney

14.

Stephen Austin

23.

Battle of Buena Vista*

3.

Suffrage

15.

General Santa Anna

24.

Gen. Winfield Scott*

4.

The Temperance Movement

16.

Battle of the Alamo (1836)

25.

Battle of Vera Cruz*

5.

Seneca Falls Convention

17.

Republic of Texas "Lone Star Republic"

26.

Battle of Mexico City*

6.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

18. 

Sam Houston

27. 

Bear Flag Republic*

7.

Horace Mann

19.

Battle of San Jacinto

28.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

8.

Dorothea Dix

20.

Annexation of Texas (1844)

29.

Mexican Cession

9. 

Utopian Societies

21.

Election of 1844

30.

Oregon Boundary Dispute

10.  

Joseph Smith

 

 

31.

Gadsden Purchase

11.

Mormons

 

 

32.

Sutter's Mill and the Gold Rush

12.

Brigham Young

 

 

 

 

 

*Not in book

You should be able to answer any of the following questions.

 

Summarize reform movements of this time.

 

What was the Second Great Awakening?

 

How did the role of women change in this period?

 

What caused the Mexican War? What were the results? How did it set the stage for future problems?

 

What effect did western expansion have on the history of the United States? Be able to explain how each new territory was acquired?

 

What issues were beginning to divide the country during this period?

 

Date Due

Assignment

Tues., Jan. 22

1. Read pp. 167, 169, 264 and 266-273, 239-240 in US book

2. Answer Study Questions 1 –3

3. Do ID items 1 - 12

Weds., Jan. 23

1. Read p. 230-234 in US book

2. Answer Study Questions 4-6

3. Do ID items 13 –21  

Thurs., Jan. 24

Debate on whether the US should go to war against Mexico

 

Use these documents

 

Mon., Jan. 28

1. Read p. 234 –235 and 238-239 [top], 241-7 in US book and pp. 290-292 in NC book

2. Answer Study Questions 7-10

3. ID items 22-32

Tues., Jan. 29

Test

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