Exam 13: Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Overland trails

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Oregon Boundary Dispute

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Free-Soil Party

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Nativism

Discuss immigration to the United States before the Civil War. Why did people leave Europe and come to the United States? What were their experiences both en route and once they arrived? Where did they settle, and why? What hardships did they encounter?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. James K. Polk

Why did Mexico begin to encourage settlers from America to come to its Coahuila-Texas region?

Why did Americans migrate westward to Mexico, California, and Oregon after 1815? Where did they come from? What were their experiences along the overland trail? Compare the experiences of white women, white men, and Native Americans.

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Californios

According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,

What was the impact of the Mexican-American War on the following elements of antebellum American life: territorial expansion, nationalism, politics, and sectionalism?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Winfield Scott

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Great Famine

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Squatter sovereignty, popular sovereignty

Which of the following did the Whig political program in 1840 include?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. The Alamo

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

How much did the United States increase its land size by during President James K. Polk's administration?

What did President James K. Polk want from Mexico in 1845 and 1846?

What economic and political forces fed westward expansion during the 1840s?