HomeDepartmentsSocial StudiesTeachersMr. D. RiderAP US HistoryUnit 3
Unit 3 – Solidifying the American Nation-State
Unit 3 considers the growth of industry and democracy and then proceeds to analyze social weaknesses of the country. The quest for Manifest Destiny and the agitation for social change tested the strength and nature of the Union. When compromise failed to resolve the nature of the Union, Civil War resulted. Although the war finalized the political nature of the Union, it did not resolve its lingering social problems.
At the conclusion of the unit, you will be able to answer the following essential questions:
- What factors led to the development of industry in America after the War of 1812?
- How and why did early American factories avoid the evils of British industry?
- How did Jacksonian Democracy differ from Jeffersonian Democracy?
- How did social reformers in the ante-bellum period propose to improve American society?
- To what extent was the Mexican War in the national interest?
- How was the antebellum South a slave society?
- How did continental expansion promote both nationalism and sectionalism?
- How did the compromises of 1820, 1833, and 1850 delay the Civil War?
- To what extent were individuals rather than events responsible for abolition?
- What were the social, political, and economic causes of the Civil War?
- How did the Civil War affect domestic life and foreign policy of the United States?
- How did Presidential plans for Reconstruction differ from Congressional plans?
- What was the "New South" and the "Last West"?
AMSCO chapters 8 – 16
Norton chapters 8 – 17
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