A03 Unit 03: An Era of Growth & Disunion Ch.09 - Ch.

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Purpose: Along with class lessons and activities, these assignments from Ch.09 - Ch.12 will augment our background knowledge of
this period of Westward expansion and growing sectionalism. The topic sections in this unit will include:
The Market Revolution
Manifest Destiny
The War with Mexico
The Divisive Politics of Slavery
Protest, Resistance, and Violence
The Birth of the Republican Party
Slavery and Secession
The Civil War Begins
The Politics of War
Life During Wartime
The North Takes Charge
The Legacy of the War
The Politics of Reconstruction
Reconstruction and Society
The Collapse of Reconstruction

Areas ripe for further research:
What were the causes and consequences of westward expansion?
How did conflict over slavery and other regional tensions lead to the Civil War?
What were the strategies, outcomes, and legacies of the Civil War?
What were the political struggles, accomplishments, and failures of Reconstruction in the years following the Civil War?

Themes: Immigration & Migration, Economic Opportunity, Diversity and National Identity, Political Power, States Rights, Civil
Rights, Science & Technology

Given:
Use the The Americans textbook to complete the assignment below.
Refer to the course calendar to acquire due dates and other instructions.

Task: Write complete sentences as you describe the historical significance of the term, name, or phrase. Your description must
relate to this chapters review of US History. If you are going to type this assignment, please label the file containing this assignment
in the format 2-digit Pd#_LastNameFirstName-A03 (Example: 09_SmithJohn-A03). Remember, when labeling files, an O is NOT a
Zero 0. O is a letter and Zero 0 is a number.

A. Ch.09: Expanding Markets and Moving West

Terms, Names, Phrases
Samuel F. B. Morse specialization telegraph John Deere
Cyrus McCormick annex manifest destiny Treaty of Fort Laramie
Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail Mormons Joseph Smith
Brigham Young Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! Stephen F. Austin
Alamo Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna Sam Houston
Republic of Texas Gadsden Purchase forty-niners gold rush
James K. Polk Zachary Taylor Republic of California Winfield Scot
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

B. Ch.10: The Union in Peril

Terms, Names, Phrases
Wilmot Proviso secession Compromise of 1850 popular sovereignty
Stephen A. Douglas Fugitive Slave Act personal liberty laws Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Toms Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act John Brown Bleeding Kansas Franklin Pierce
nativism Know-Nothing Party Free-Soil Party Republican Party
Horace Greeley John C. Frmont James Buchanan Dred Scott
Roger B. Taney Abraham Lincoln Freeport Doctrine Harpers Ferry
Confederacy Jefferson Davis

A03 Unit 03: An Era of Growth & Disunion Ch.09 - Ch.12
C. Ch.11: Civil War

Terms, Names, Phrases
Fort Sumter Anaconda plan George McClellan Ulysses S. Grant
David G. Farragut Monitor Merrimack Robert E. Lee
Antietam Emancipation Proclamation habeas corpus
Copperhead conscription Fort Pillow income tax
Clara Barton Andersonville Gettysburg Vicksburg
Gettysburg Address William Tecumseh Sherman Appomattox Court House
National Bank Act Thirteenth Amendment Red Cross John Wilkes Booth

D. Ch.12: Reconstruction and its Effects

Terms, Names, Phrases
Andrew Johnson Reconstruction Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens
Wade-Davis Bill Freedmens Bureau black codes Fourteenth Amendment
impeach Fifteenth Amendment scalawag carpetbagger
sharecropping tenant farming Ku Klux Klan (KKK) panic of 1873
Samuel J. Tilden Compromise of 1877 home rule