Unit 5: Expansion, Reform & Sectionalism - APUSH with Mr. Johnson

Unit 5: Expansion, Reform & Sectionalism

Lessons

Jacksonian Democracy

The National Economy

Westward Expansion

Sectional Crises of the 1850s

Unit 5 Study Guide

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American Pageant

Chapter 13 - The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840 (Course Notes)
Chapter 14 - Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860 (Course Notes)
Chapter 15 - The Ferment of Reform & Culture, 1790-1860 (Course Notes)
Chapter 16 - The South & the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860 (Course Notes)
Chapter 17 - Manifest Destiny & Its Legacy, 1841-1848 (Course Notes)
Chapter 18 - Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854 (Course Notes)

Chapter 19 - Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861 (Course Notes)

Essential Questions

In what ways did political democracy change in the years following the War of 1812?
Did the Jacksonian Era make American politics more democratic or autocratic?
How did transportation networks and growing markets increase the interdependency of the nation's industrial and agricultural economies?

What factors influenced American westward movement?
In what ways did Manifest Destiny both unite and divide the American people?
What issues divided America in the first half of the nineteenth century?
How did religious and reform movements redefine American concepts of freedom, equality and morality?
Why had sectional compromise become impossible by 1860?
What were the causes of the Civil War?

Unit Project

DBQ 2005: The Failure of Compromise

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dbq_2005_-_failure_of_compromise_-_scoring_guidelines.pdf
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