Exploring American Histories: Printed Page 383
Exploring American Histories, Value Edition: Printed Page 321
REVIEW & RELATE
Why did Americans go west in the 1830s and 1840s, and what was the journey like?
What groups competed for land and resources in the West? How did competition lead to violence?
What steps did legislators take in the 1840s and early 1850s to resolve the issue of the expansion of slavery?
How were slavery and American imperialist ambitions intertwined in the 1840s and 1850s?
What factors contributed to the spread of antislavery sentiment in the North beyond committed abolitionists?
How did the violence in Kansas in the mid-1850s reflect and intensify the growing sectional divide within the nation?
How and why did John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry move the country closer to civil war?
Why did many in the South believe that the election of Abraham Lincoln was cause for secession?