Era 4: Themes From The Larger Picture: The Western World and America

A.  continuing spread of industry, commerce, capitalism, and western democratic ideas

B.  United States territorial expansion, the Mexican-American War, the concept of Manifest Destiny, and its effects on relations with external powers and Native Americans

C. the changing lives of Americans and regional tensions as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the rapid expansion of slavery and westward movement

D. the extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800

E. Jacksonian Democracy and the sources, character, efforts, and results of reform movements in the antebellum period

Era 4: New Hampshire Themes

A. ideas in science and technology applied to transportation, industry, education, and medicine in pre-Civil War New Hampshire [ Focus Question V ]

B. settlement of New Hampshire's northern boundary and relations with Canada [ Focus Question I ]

C. the impact of the Industrial Revolution and market revolution on the New Hampshire landscape, economy, politics, and population [ Focus Questions II, III, IV, V, VII ]

D. changes in New Hampshire's population as a result of changing patterns of emigration and immigration [ Focus Questions II, III, V, VII ]

E. the efforts and results of social and political reform movements in New Hampshire and their links to national reform movements [ Focus Questions IV, VI, VIII ]