Printable American History Readings with Questions
 
 
Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
 
 
 
1. Building Unity
 
2. Extension of Slavery
 
3. Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine
 
4. Factionalism and Political Parties
 
5. Nullification Crisis
 
6. The Bank Fight
 
7. Whigs, Democrats, and Know-Nothings
 
8. Stirrings of Reform
 
9. Women's Rights
 
10. Westward
 
11. The Frontier, "The West," and the American Experience
 
 
 
 
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Text courtesy of the U.S. State Department,
Bureau of International Information Programs, 2005