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Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills
S kIll rEvIEW Historical Causation and Interpretation 220TOPIC II Destinies Manifested 222
Document 9.6 Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836 222
Document 9.7 “On the Webster-Ashburton Treaty,”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1842 223
Document 9.8 Democratic Party Platform, 1844 224
Document 9.9 Parody of the Democratic Party, 1848 225
Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills
S kIll rEvIEW Appropriate Use of Relevant Evidence,
Causation, and Synthesis 226
PUTTIng IT All TOgETHEr Revisiting the Main Point 229
Building AP® Writing Skills Organizing and Outlining a Reason-Based
Historical Argument 229WOrkIng WITH SECOnDAry SOUrCES
AP ® Short Answer Questions for Period Four: 1800–1848
Race and Democracy 233PerioD fiVe 18 44–1877
Chapter 10 Expansionism: Part 2 235
Seeking the Main Point 236
TOPIC I Conquest West 237
Document 10.1 James K. Polk, War Message, 1846 237
Document 10.2 Abraham Lincoln, “Spot Resolutions,” 1847 238
Document 10.3 “Commodore Perry at the Loo Choo Isles,”
New York Daily Times, 1853 240
Document 10.4 American (or Know-Nothing) Party Platform, 1856 241
Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills
S kIll rEvIEW Periodization and Comparison 243
Document 10.5 Homestead Act of 1862 243
Document 10.6 Report from the Spotted Tail Indian Agency, 1877 244
Applying AP® Historical Thinking Skills
S kIll rEvIEW Synthesis 245
PUTTIng IT All TOgETHEr Revisiting the Main Point 247
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