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The Mexican-American War and Manifest Destiny

• What do you see in the painting, American Progress by John Gast, provided in the Manifest Destiny PowerPoint?

• The floating white woman in this painting is heading West. What do you think she represents?

• Who and what are still in "darkness" in the painting?

• Who and what are bringing the "light" of civilization?

• What does Manifest Destiny mean in the teaching of our history?

• How did our belief in Manifest Destiny justify our expansion westward?

• What lands did the U.S. receive as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848?

• How did the Mexican-American War add to the developing tensions that led to the Civil War?

• Why did it spark the question of whether we (the U.S.) will be slave or free?

• How did the war affect American politics?

• Many hoped the Compromise of 1850 would diffuse tensions over the newly acquired territories. What was the Compromise of 1850? Did it diffuse tensions or further exacerbate the political strain? Explain.

• Could the Wilmot Proviso have prevented the Civil War? How and why was it an event that led us to war?

• How did the California Gold Rush affect Native Americans? Immigrants? The U.S. economy? How did it change America? How did it impact the issue of slavery?

• How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to conflict, violence, and chaos, resulting in "Bleeding Kansas"? How is this connected to the beating of Senator Charles Sumner? Why is this beating a microcosm of the developing national crisis?

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