1. How did the US expand to the Pacific?
2. What problems did expansion create for the US?
3. What was US policy toward Native Americans? How did it affect
their lives?
| Manifest Destiny | Louisiana Purchase | Texas Annexation | Mexican Cession |
| Oregon Country | Gadsen Purchase | Mexican American War | Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
| Indian Removal Act of 1831 | Trail of Tears | Reservation | Dawes Act |
| Homestead Act | "Indian Wars" | Pioneers |
1. How/Why had slavery developed in the US?
2. What economic and political differences existed between the
North and the South?
3.Why did Southern States Secede from the Union?
| Internal Improvements | Protective Tariff | Tariff of Abominations | Nullify/Nullification |
| Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise) |
Compromise of 1850 (California Compromise) |
Fugitive Slave Law | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Principle of Popular Sovereignty | Underground Railroad | Cotton Gin | "Cotton Boom" |
| Abolitionists | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Personal Liberty Laws | Bleeding Kansas |
| Harper's Ferry, Virginia | "Slave Power" | Dred Scott V. Sanford | Republican Party |
| "Free Soilers" | "A house divided..." | Election of 1860 | Secession |
| Confederate States of America | Abraham Lincoln | Jefferson Davis | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Nat Turner | John Brown | Harriet Tubman |
1. What were the immediate and underlying causes of the Civil
War?
2. What was Lincoln's war aim? What steps did he take to accomplish
it?
3. Why did the North win?
5. What problems did freed slaves face?
6. How did the President and Congress
differ over Reconstruction?
7. When/Why did Reconstruction end?
8. How did segregation develop in the South?
| Fort Sumter | Gettysburg | Gettysburg Address | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Reconstruction | 10 Percent Plan | Radical Republicans | Radical Reconstruction |
| Impeachment of Johnson | Scalawags | Carpetbaggers | |
| Freedmen | Freedmen's Bureau | Black Codes | Ex Parte Milligan |
| 13th Amendment | 14th Amendment | "Equal Protection Clause" | 15th Amendment |
| Ku Klux Klan | Poll Tax | (Voting) Literacy Test | Grandfather Clauses |
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregation | Plessy V. Ferguson | "Separate but Equal" |