Monday, September 15, 2008

Chapter 2-3 questions

Chapter 2, Section 3 pp. 192 – 201
Manifest Destiny and Crisis

1. How many people moved west from 1830-1860? Why?
2. What is manifest destiny?
3. Name 3 wagon trails across the country?
4. What was the treaty of ft. Laramie? Was it honored?
5. How did Texas become a state?
6. How did the US force a war with Mexico?
7. Who is John C. Fremont?
8. What is the result of the war with Mexico?
9. How does discovery of Gold in CA help lead to the Civil war?
10. What is the Compromise of 1850?
11. What is the Fugitive slave act?
12. Who is Henry David Thoreau?
13. What is the Underground Railroad? Who is Harriet Tubman?
14. What is the Transcontinental RR?
15. What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
16. What is the Republican party?
17. What is the Dred Scott case?
18. Who is John Brown? What was his plan? What happened?
19. What happened in the election of 1860? What did this lead to in the south?
20. What is the Confederacy?
21. Who is Jefferson Davis

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