1. Unit 3 Test Review Day
Grab 1 Copy of each of the following for your table:
Give Me Liberty
Enduring Vision
The AMSCO Book

2. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
How did the outcome of the Mexican – American War intensify intersectional conflict? Why did it split the Democratic party?

3. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What economic and political forces fed westward expansion during the 1840s?

4. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
Describe immigration in the 1840s. How did this impact the Whigs and Democrats?

5. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What did the compromise of 1850 do? How effective was it at staving off sectional conflict?

6. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? What was its impact?

7. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What led southerners to conclude that the North was bent not merely on restricting territorial slavery bust also on extinguishing slavery in the southern states?

8. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What were the advantages of the North and the South during the Civil War? How did these differences influence the impact of the war?

9. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What was the emancipation proclamation? What did it do? How did it mark a change in presidential power?

10. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What were the lasting impacts of the Civil War?

11. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
Describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution and their impact on post-war America.

12. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What was presidential reconstruction? What was congressional reconstruction? Which policy dominated reconstruction?

13. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
What factors contributed to the end of reconstruction? (Think about factors in the north)
Describe the controversy over the election of How did this lead to the compromise of 1877 that ended reconstruction?

14. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
Describe life for freedmen after the Civil War. How did they live, work, and build communities?

15. Unit 3 Test Discussion Questions
Was reconstruction a failure? Why or why not? (Give specific historic evidence!)