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Goal 3 Study Guide
U.S. History
Mr. Oxendine
Chapter 5-Manifest Destiny
1. Name New Spain’s oldest colony. P.166
2. What did the expansionists say about the Mexican government and economy? P.
169
3. What kinds of goods were traded along the Santa Fe Trail? P. 169
4. What were the American traders known as? P. 169
5. Who became the leader of the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith? P. 172
6. What restrictions were passed onto the Native Americans under the Treaty of Fort
Laramie? P. 172
7. Why was Texas vulnerable to U.S. expansion? P. 173
8. In order to defend Texas, Mexico decided to allow Americans to move into the
province. What three rules did Americans have to follow to take advantage of the
free land in Mexico? P. 173
9. Who led the group of settlers that later formed Austin? P. 174
10. What ruthless general took control of the Mexican government in 1834? P. 174
11. What did the American citizens that were living in Texas do in 1835? What did
they declare? What did they adopt? P. 174
12. What occurred at Fort Alamo? Were their any survivors? Who were some of the
famous men that were killed? P. 174
13. Who led the Texans to victory against the Mexican Army at the Battle of San
Jacinto? P. 174
14. After winning Independence from Mexico, who was elected as the first President
of Texas? What did the immediately ask the United States to do? P. 175
15. What was the key issue in the Presidential election of 1844? Who went on to win
the election? P. 175
16. After the annexation of Texas, who was sent to occupy the disputed land in
Texas? P. 176
17. What were the fears of the Whig party about land that would be potentially be
won from the Mexican War? P. 176
18. What three words described the advantages the United States had over Mexico? P.
176
19. What treaty ended the Mexican-American War? P. 179
20. What present-day states did the United States gain after the war was over? P. 179
21. What did the U.S. gain after the Gadsden Purchase? P. 180
22. What was found at John Sutter’s Mill in California that caused millions of settlers
to flock there? P. 181
Chapter 6-The Union in Crisis
1. What was the crucial question that Americans were asking themselves at the end
of the Mexican-American War? P. 192
2. What did Senator David Wilmot propose about the existence of slavery in the
lands won from the Mexican War? Was this approved by Congress? P. 193
3. What was the main goal of the Free-Soil Party? P. 194
4. What did the policy of Popular Sovereignty state? P. 194
5. Who won the Presidential election in 1848? What party with its anti-slavery
platform had caught the attention of America? P. 194
6. Name the four parts of Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850. (See chart) P. 195
7. If the North did not agree with the South over Clay’s compromise, what did John
Calhoun suggest the South do? P. 195
8. Under the Fugitive Slave Act, what were private citizens forced to do? P. 197
9. What act did the personal liberty laws nullify? Under the laws, who could be
arrested? P. 199
10. What two groups of people go together to form the Underground Railroad? P. 201
11. Who was known as the “Black Moses” on the Underground Railroad? P. 201
12. Who wrote and published Uncle Tom’s Cabin? What did the book describe in
detail? P. 201
13. What did the Kansas and Nebraska Act nullify? P. 202
14. What were border ruffians? What did they do? P. 204
15. With the help of his sons, what did John Brown do on May 21, 1856 near
Lawrence? P. 204
16. With both sides armed for battle in Kansas, what did the territory become known
as? P. 204
17. What happened to Senator Charles Sumner after delivering an anti-slavery speech
in Congress? P. 205
18. With the rise of the new Republican Party, what became the party’s philosophy?
P. 208
19. What did Justice Roger B. Taney decide in the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v.
Sanford? P. 209
20. What did John Brown hope to do at Harpers Ferry? P. 212
21. What happened to Brown after the raid? P. 213
22. Who won the election of 1860? P. 216
23. After the election of 1860, what did South Carolina decide to do? P. 218
24. What country was formed in February 1861? P. 218
25. What was known as the final compromise? What did it propose? P. 218-220
26. After the firing on Fort Sumter, what other states pulled from the Union? P. 220
Goal 3 Vocabulary
Expansionist
Manifest Destiny
Brigham Young
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Stephen F. Austin
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Lone-Star Republic
Alamo
Sam Houston
James K. Polk
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Free-soil Party
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Personal Liberty laws
Underground Railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act
“Bleeding Kansas”
Know-Nothings
Dred Scott
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States of America
Fort Sumter