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Unit 5: Expansion, Reform & Sectionalism

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Lessons

  • Jacksonian Democracy
  • The National Economy
  • The Antebellum South
  • Religious & Reform Movements
  • Westward Expansion
  • Sectional Crises of the 1850s

Unit 5 Study Guide

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American Pageant

  • Chapter 13 - The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 14 - Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 15 - The Ferment of Reform & Culture, 1790-1860 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 16 - The South & the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 17 - Manifest Destiny & Its Legacy, 1841-1848 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 18 - Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 19 - Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861 (Course Notes)
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Essential Questions

  • In what ways did political democracy change in the years following the War of 1812?
  • Did the Jacksonian Era make American politics more democratic or autocratic?
  • How did transportation networks and growing markets increase the interdependency of the nation's industrial and agricultural economies?
  • What factors influenced American westward movement?
  • In what ways did Manifest Destiny both unite and divide the American people?
  • What issues divided America in the first half of the nineteenth century?
  • How did religious and reform movements redefine American concepts of freedom, equality and morality?
  • Why had sectional compromise become impossible by 1860?
  • What were the causes of the Civil War?
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Unit Project

DBQ 2005: The Failure of Compromise

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