Making Connections

1. Discuss migration to two different regions. What drew the migrants, and how did the U.S. government contribute to their efforts?

2. How did the ideology of manifest destiny contribute to mid-nineteenth-century expansion? Discuss its implications for individual migrants and the nation.

3. How did the Mexican-American War affect national political and economic developments in subsequent decades?

4. How did nineteenth-century reform movements draw on the free-labor ideal to pursue specific reforms?