Study Guide for Test on Day 3 this week
- What were the major reforms of the mid 19th century?
- What were the major inventions of the mid 19th century and how did they make life easier?
- All the Road to Civil War Q's above
- John Gast's American Progress painting details...know as much about the painting as you can!
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Day 1 and 2
William Henry Harrison's Presidency...Short
James K. Polk 36:50-44:20
Harriet Trailer
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
- How did westward expansion slowly divide the United States?
- How did the Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo further divide the nation?
- What were the details of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850. Was it a true compromise?
- What was the Underground Railroad?
- What was Uncle Tom's Cabin about and how was it received by the readers?
- How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act tear the nation in half and what did it do to the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
- What political party was created because of the Kansas-Nebraska act and what was their objective as a party?
- Who was John Brown and what did he do in Kansas?
- What happened in Congress in 1856? What kind of message did this send to the nation about the issue of slavery?
- What was the verdict of the Dred Scott Decision in 1857?
- What phrase captured the nation in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858? Who won the debates?
- What did John Brown do in 1859 in Harper's Ferry, Va?
- How did Abraham Lincoln win the Election of 1860 and what was the result of his election?
HW: Test on the Era of Reform, Industry in the Mid 19th Century, and the Road to Civil War on Feb. 4/5 Day 3
Day 3
In Class: Test on the Era of Reform, Industry in the Mid 19th Century, and the Road to Civil War on Feb. 4/5 Day 3
HW: None!