• Manifest Destiny
• Texas
• Mexican American War

• The ways that the debate over slavery led to outbreaks of violence in the 1850's
• The impact of the issue of slavery on the national political scene in the 1850's
• The ways in which the Election of 1860 led to the secession of states in the South and the start of the Civil War

• The early years of the Civil War, including advantages of North and South
• The key decisions and actions that led to Northern victory at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July of 1863
• Sherman's March and the final years of war
• South's surrender & Lincoln's assassination

• The major problems of Reconstruction
• The key differences between the ways that President Johnson handled Reconstruction as opposed to the methods and ideas of the Radical Republicans who controlled Congress
• The Reconstruction Amendments

• The reasons why Americans headed west in the post war era
• The challenges faced by those who settled the west'
• The importance opf Railroads, mining, and ranching
• The reasons why the settlers clashed with the Native Americans, and the impact of the clashes on both groups

238-249

• The growth of big business and corruption during the Gilded Age
• Worker attempts to improve their conditions through unionization
• The successes and failures of those unions

254-256

• The new boom of immigration: who they were, why they came, etc.

Unit II Test will be given on October 17th!