Period 5

Front 1

Basis for idea of Manifest Destiny

Back 1

Built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority, supported U.S. expansion westward.

Front 2

Effects of territories gained after Mexican-American War

Back 2

accompanied by a heated controversy over allowing or forbidding slavery in newly acquired territories.

Front 3

Desires for access to western resources

Back 3

led to the environmental transformation of the region, new economic activities, and increased settlement in areas forcibly taken from American Indians

Front 4

Interest in trade with Asia

Back 4

expanding trade led to economic, diplomatic, and cultural initiatives westward to Asia

Front 5

Characteristics of antebellum immigrants

Back 5

Immigrants lived in ethnic communities and kept their religion, language,and customs came before the Civil War, givingrise to a major, often violent nativist movement

Front 6

New opportunities in the West created by government legislation

Back 6

sought new economicopportunities or religious refuge in the West

Front 7

Effects of interaction with Hispanics and Indians on culture

Back 7

government interaction andconflict increased, altering these groups’ cultures and ways of life and raising questions abouttheir status and legal rights.

Front 8

Reasons for differing views on slavery between North and South

Back 8

North's economy relied on free-labor manufacturing economy while South relied on slave-based agriculture and slow population growth.

Front 9

Abolitionist strategies

Back 9

Located mainly in the North, they had a very visible campaign about slavery, their tactics ranged from arguments to the assistance in slave escapes

Front 10

Foundation of Southern defense of slavery

Back 10

State's rights, nullification and racist stereotyping providing a foundation they defended it as positive good