The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

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p. 301

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Review Questions

1.From the Louisiana Purchase (1803) until the war
with Mexico in 1845 the United States only added
Florida (1819) to the national domain. But in the
next three years, with the addition of Texas,
California, and much of the Southwest, the nation
increased in size 50 percent. What accounts for
this sudden expansionism?

2.Why did the United States go to war with Mexico

and what were its consequences politically?

3.How did the frontier undermine traditional gen-

der roles? How did it reinforce those roles?

4.What was the relationship between slavery and

manifest destiny?

Connections

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Travis,Letter from the

Alamo,p. 300

John O’Sullivan,

Annexation,p. 305

Thomas Corwin,Against

the Mexican War, p. 308

U.S. Territorial Expansion in the

1850s,p. 309

Burrum, fromSix Months in

the Gold Mines, p. 312

Clay,Speech to the U.S.

Senate,p. 315

Webster,Speech to the U.S.

Senate,p. 315

The Fugitive Slave Act

(1850),p. 315

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