05: Young Americans

• 05a: Introduction
• 05b: Our Manifest Destiny
• 05c: Life in the Good Old Days
• 05d: Of Human Bondage
  
• 05e: Conclusions

Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events:

Manifest Destiny, Republic of Texas, Walker Tariff, James K. Polk, Missouri Compromise, King Cotton, Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Questions for consideration: 

1. What beliefs and values lay underneath the Americans' concept of a "manifest destiny?"
   
2. What social and economic differences existed between the North and the South by 1850?
   
3. What measures did the United States take to "resolve" the slavery question between 1850 and the beginning of the Civil War? Why did they fail?