How did the market revolution and westward expansion drive each other and intensify the institution of slavery? 2. Identify the major transportation impro

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1. How did the market revolution and westward expansion drive each other and intensify the institution of slavery?

2. Identify the major transportation improvements of this period.  How did the market revolution change women’s work and family roles?

3. Why did the South rely on the existence of slavery? Describe in details the statement: “Cotton Is King.”

4. How did enslaved people create community and a culture that allowed them to survive in an oppressive society?

5. Explain the justifications for the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Discuss the Monroe Doctrine and what it meant for European exploration and expansion.  

6. Discuss Indian Removal. Why did the expansion of slavery become the most divisive political issue in the 1840s and 1840s? 

7. What made the American Civil War the first modern war? How did a war to preserve the Union become a war to end slavery?

8. Discuss the Union strategy for victory in the Civil War. What role did Blacks play in winning the Civil War and in defining the war’s consequences?