Chapter 13
How did Polk use the same tactic and get the same result by different means in Oregon and Texas?

What was the Wilmot Proviso? What brought about its introduction, and what arguments were advanced in its favor?

Explain the following statement: Expansion brought sectional antagonism to the boiling point, split the Democratic party in the late 1840's, and set the nation on the path to the Civil War.

Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of the following:
      Mexican War
      Missouri Compromise
      Compromise of 1850
      Kansas-Nebraska Act
      Dred Scott Decision

Chapter 14

What advantages did the Union have in the Civil War and what were the advantages for the Confederacy?

How did the Union finance the war and how did the Confederacy finance it? Which if any were successful? What was the effect on the economies of each?

How did each side raise troops and how effective were they in doing this?

What impact did the war have on women? What part did women play in the war effort?

Compare and contrast Lincoln and Davis - their backgrounds, abilities and objectives. Why was Lincoln more successful at organizing a command system than Davis?

Who were the Radical  Republicans and on what grounds did they criticize Lincoln during the war?

Why was 1863 the "year of decision"? What took place to swing the advantage? What did the battles accomplish and why were they so important?

How the Union forces destroy the South's will to fight?

The Civil War has been called the 2nd American Revolution that significantly transformed the social, economic and political fabric of the nation. Assess this statement

FACTS, figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.

1. 20-negro law
2. bounty jumpers
3. Legal Tender Act
4. Greenbacks
5. National Bank Act
6. Jefferson Davis 

13. 1st & 2nd battles of Bull Run
14. Stonewall Jackson
15. R. E. Lee
16. Antietam
17. U.S. Grant
18. W. T. Sherman
19. Merrimac
20. Monitor
21. Trent affair
26. Emancipation Proclamation

10. Ex parte v. Merryman
11. Ex parte v Milligan
1. Maria Monk
2. Know-Nothing, or American, party
3. George Henry Evans
4. Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)
5. Spanish missions and presidios
6. Stephan F. Austin 
7. American empresarios in Texas
8. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
9. The Alamo
10. Sam Huston
11. Overland Trail 
12. The Donner party
13. John Tyler
14. John C. Calhoun
15. Henry Clay
16. James K. Polk ("Young Hickory")
17. John L. O'Sullivan and manifest destiny
18. Zachary Taylor (Old Rough and Ready")
19. Winfield Scott
20. John C. Fremont 
21. The Bear Flag Republic
22. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
23. Wilmot Proviso
24. Squatter or popular sovereignty
25. Martin Van Buren and the Free-Soil party
26. Doctrines of free soil and free labor
27. William H. Seward and irrepressible conflict
28. Popular (squatter) sovereignty
29. Daniel Webster
30. Henry Clay's omnibus bill 
31. The Compromise of 1850
32. Millard Fillmore
 

28. Gettysburg
29. Vicksburg
30. Western Theatre
31. Eastern Theatre
32. Homestead Act
33. Morrill Land Grant Act
34. Copperheads
35. Clement Vallandigham
36. New York City draft riot 40. National Union Party
41. Andrew Johnson
42. Appomattox Courthouse
37. Elizabeth C. Stanton
33. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 
34. personal-liberty laws
35. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin 
36. American (or Know-Nothing) party
37. Stephan A. Douglas 
38. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
39. Gadsden Purchase
40. John A. Quitman, William Walker, and filibustering
41. Ostend Manifesto
42. "Bleeding Kansas"
43. Lecompton versus Topeka legislature 
44.  Lecompton constitution
45. Sack of Lawrence Kansas
46. Pottawatomie massacre
47. Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks
48. John C. Fremont
49. James Buchanan
50. Roger B. Taney 
51. Dred Scott v. Sandford
52. Lincoln-Douglas debates 
53. Douglas's Freeport Doctrine
54. John Brown's 
55. Harpers Ferry
56. Panic of 1857
57. John C. Brackenridge
58. John Bell 
59. The Constitutional Union party
60. Jefferson Davis 
61. The Confederate States of America
62. Crittenden compromise
63. Fort Sumter