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The Impending Crisis

The Impending Crisis. Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists. Expansionism. Empire of Liberty War of 1812 and Expansion Missouri Compromise and Sectionalism Mexico and Texas The Oregon Trail California and Dana’s Two Years Natives and Vanishing Frontier. Manifest Destiny.

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The Impending Crisis

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  1. The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

  2. Expansionism • Empire of Liberty • War of 1812 and Expansion • Missouri Compromise and Sectionalism • Mexico and Texas • The Oregon Trail • California and Dana’s Two Years • Natives and Vanishing Frontier

  3. Manifest Destiny • World Perspectives • Role of Providence • The American Way of Life • Ethnocentrism • Looking WEST • Sectional Tensions • John O’ Sullivan and the Press

  4. The 1844 Election • Two Party System: Demos v. Whigs • Tyler’s Initiatives • Slavery Debate • International Relations • Candidate’s their positions: Clay and Polk • Texas and Oregon • Victory and Congressional Resolution

  5. The Oregon Question • Polk Doctrine & Jingoism • Northern Interests: Free Soilers • 54/40 or Fight • Negotiations along 49 parallel • 1859 Statehood

  6. Polk and Mexico • The Southwest • Californios • Unsettled Biz in Texas • Slidell Mission and Rebuke • Question of the Rio Grande • Showdown and War

  7. War with Mexico • War or an Invasion • Slavery & Wilmot’s Proviso • Thoreau and Lincoln’s Resolution • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Cost of Victory: Legacies • Discovery of Gold

  8. Irrepressible Conflict • Southern Extremists: Fire in the Belly • Constitutional Questions • 1848: Presidential Politics • The Gold Rush • Abolitionists • Zack Taylor and Popular Sovereignty • Other Voices

  9. 1850 Compromise • An ARMISTICE • Banning Slave Trade • Fugitive Slave Act • California as 31st State: Monterey Redux • Popular Sovereignty as Model • Future of Agreement?

  10. Abolitionists & Freesoilers • Early 1850’s • Election of ’52 and Whiggery • Fugitives and Underground Activity • Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Impact • Personal Liberty Laws • Southerners and Siege Mentality

  11. The Young Americans • Ardent Expansionists • Japan and Asia • Cuban Interlopers • Mexico • Grey Eyed Man of Destiny • Slavocratic Power

  12. Kansas Nebraska • A National Railroad • Stephen Douglas & Congress • Northern Outrage in ’54 • Testing Popular Sovereignty • Bleeding Kansas: Prelude to Civil War • National Debates Rage

  13. Republican Party • Constituencies • Non Extensionism • Other Issues • Free soil, Free men and Fremont • Victory in defeat?

  14. Flirting with Disaster • Buchanan: Political Doughface • Panic of 1857 • Events in Kansas • Lecompton Constitution • Southern Response • Democratic Party Politics

  15. The Dred Scott Decision • The Issues • Roger Taney • Blacks Have No Rights • Congress Has No Authority • Constitutional Issues • Republican Response

  16. Lincoln Douglas Debates • The Context of Debates • Popular Sovereignty v. Non Extension • Stephen Oates and Debates • Freeport Heresy • Impact of the Election • A House Divided?

  17. John Brown’s Raid • John Brown: Crazed or Fanatic • Bleeding Kansas Role • Harper’s Ferry & its purpose • Raid and Aftermath • Public Confession • South’s Reaction • Crossing the Rubicon

  18. The Impending Crisis • Could the secession crisis have been averted? What were the options?

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