Expansion, Slavery & Reform — Chapter overview · U.S. & New York History: Indigenous Nations to Reconstruction, Grade 7
Five focused units, a three-session source workshop, chapter review, and chapter quiz.
Chapter question
How did competing claims about land, labor, and rights affect people’s choices and institutions?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 6.1 · Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny & Contested Land
I can explain what Manifest Destiny claimed and who coined the phrase.
- Unit 6.2 · Indian Removal: Sovereignty, Resistance & Enforcement
I can explain what the Cherokee Nation did to resist removal and why it should have worked.
- Unit 6.3 · Reform Movements: Religion, Education & Public Action
I can explain what the Second Great Awakening changed about religious belief.
- Unit 6.4 · Abolition & Women’s Rights: Arguments, Networks & Disagreements
I can explain the difference between gradual and immediate abolition.
- Unit 6.5 · Cotton, Domestic Slave Trade & Enslaved People’s Agency
I can explain how the cotton gin expanded slavery instead of ending it.