Wednesday

 Today we will be looking at some of the events that led to the Civil War. Please bring your books to class.

We will also be looking at Don't Know Much About History (Zachary Taylor to Lincoln).

Please outline the following events/information

Mexican American War-election of Lincoln

 

The Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Bleeding Kansas 

Dred Scott Case

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

John Brown and Harper's Ferry

Presidents 1-16

 

1. Why was the Missouri Compromise important in dealing with California becoming a state? 

2. Who is the architect or leader in the compromise? 

3. What did the Fugitive Slave Act do? 

4. TRUE OR FALSE: The compromise clearly laid out who would vote and who would run elections in new territories for them to decide the issue of slavery there. 

5. Civil War breaks out in the US by 1861. Why do you believe The Compromise of 1850 was not enough to avoid Civil War?

 

US History I: Crash Course: US History Episode #17 – War and Expansion

TRUE OR FALSE:

1. “Manifest Destiny” was the idea that America had a God-given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific. (0:53)

2. By 1860, more than a million Americans had made the trek west to reach the Oregon Territory. (1:32)

3. At this time, Nevada, Texas, and California all belonged to Spain. (1:44)

6. After the Battle of San Jacinto, Texas became an independent country. (3:06)

8. Congress in the 19th century took care to keep the Senate balanced between slave states and free states. (4:04)

9. President Polk waged a war against Mexico in order to acquire California.  (4:50)

10. Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “On Civil Disobedience” while in jail for refusing to pay his taxes. (5:03)

13. Nativism was the insistence that Native Americans needed to be accorded rights equal to anyone else in the U.S. (7:00)

14. Before the Gold Rush, California didn’t have enough Americans living there to quality for statehood. (7:41)

15. Most of the 25,000 Chinese who arrived in California worked in the mining and railroad fields. (8:00)

16. Under the 1850 California Constitution, African Americans and Asian Americans could vote and testify in court. (9:40)

19. Causes of the Civil War include both manifest destiny and slavery, depending on who you ask. (12:00)