Three+Distinct+Regions

=Three Distinct Regions=


 * Topics:**
 * Slavery
 * Life in the South
 * Life in the North
 * Northern Immigration
 * Factory System
 * Life in the West
 * American System
 * Monroe Doctrine
 * Mountain Men
 * Missouri Compromise
 * Indian Removal
 * Second Great Awakening
 * Reforms in Education, Health, Prisons
 * Women's Rights
 * Temperance
 * Trade Unions
 * Capitalism
 * Manifest Destiny
 * Western Trails
 * War with Mexico
 * Gold Rush


 * Big Questions:**
 * Why did the economies and cultures of the northern and southern colonies/states develop so differently?
 * How did the Industrial Revolution change the northern states?
 * How did America grow to cover the width of North America?
 * What were the causes, conditions, and outcomes of the War with Mexico?
 * Describe the cultural environment in which so many reforms, such as temperance and health reform, started.
 * Was slavery the cause of White racism, or a result of it?


 * Other:**
 * Full text of [|Alexis DeTocqueville's Democracy in America] from 1831