REVIEW QUESTIONS
Q1. Explain the justifications for the doctrine of manifest destiny, including material and idealistic motivations.
Q2. Why did many Americans criticize the Mexican War? How did they see expansion as a threat to American liberties?
Q3. How did the concept of "race" develop by the mid-nineteenth century? How did it enter into the manifest destiny debate?
Q4. How did western expansion affect the sectional tensions between the North and South?
Q5. How did the market revolution contribute to the rise of the Republican Party? How did those economic and political factors serve to unite groups in the Northeast and in the Northwest, and why was that unity significant?