Unit 5 Chapters 12-13 · 2016-12-11 · The American claim] is by the right of our manifest destiny...

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Chapters12-13

� [TheAmericanclaim]isbytherightofourmanifestdestinytooverspreadandtopossessthewholeofthecontinentwhichProvidencehasgivenusforthedevelopmentofthegreatexperimentofliberty…

-JohnL.O Sullivan,1845

“American Progress” -John Gast

� AroostookWar, 1839-1842

� DividingOregon(1846)

Polk’s “Fifty-

Four Forty or Fight!”

� AnnexationofTexas,1845� Electionof1844

� TheSlidellMission-1845

� GeneralZacharyTaylor

� 5/11/1846� warexists…by

theActofMexico

herself.

John C. Frémont

June 1846

February1847

Old Rough and Ready

March 1847

Sept. 1847

Old Fuss and Feathers

NicholasTrist,AmericanNegotiator

1.  Cost2.  NewWarHeroes

3.  NewTerritory

4.  Reignitestheslaveryissue -WilmotProviso-1846

Between1840and1860,morethan250,000peoplemadethetrekwest.

John A. Sutter

1846-1847

� MissouriStatehood&the

TallmadgeAmendment

� 1828-SouthCarolinaExposition� 1832-Nullification

� 1833-ClayCompromise&Force

Bill

� Free-SoilParty,1848

� freesoil,freelabor,&freemen

� 36°30 westwardtothePacific

� LewisCass popularsovereignty

� Electionof1848

Cass (D) Taylor (W) Van Buren (F)

William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass

1.  Californiaadmittedasafreestate

2.  PopularSovereigntyusedintheMexicanCession

3.  ProhibitedthebuyingandsellingofslavesinD.C.

4.  EnforcedanewstricterFugitiveSlaveLaw

Harriet Beecher Stowe

�So you�re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.�

-Lincoln

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Log-rolling

• Divided Nebraska into 2 territories: Nebraska & Kansas

• In effect it repealed 36º30� line.

� TheRepublicanPartyisformedovertheissueofslaveryintheterritories.

� Electionof1856

Lecompton vs. Topeka

Sumner Brooks

Chief Justice Roger Taney

Dred Scott

1858

Senate Campaign

Freeport, Illinois

� JohnBrown

�Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done.�

� TheDemocratsSplit

� NorthernDemocrats-StephenDouglas

� SouthernDemocrats-JohnC.

Breckinridge

� RepublicansnominatedLincoln

� ConstitutionalUnionPartychoseJohn

Bell

12/20/1860

SenatorJohnCrittendenofKY

� Allowslaverysouthof36°30 inallterritories

� ProhibitabolitioninD.C.withoutitsconsent

� Nat lgov tcouldn tinterferewiththeinterstateslavetrade

� Fullcompensationtoownersofrescued”fugitiveslaves

SenatorJohnCrittendenofKY

� Congresscouldn�tabolishslaverywithinaslavestate

� Nofutureamendmentcouldchange

theseamendments

� February1861� PresidentJeffersonDavis

� VicePresidentAlexanderStephens

*Fort Sumter

*April 12, 1861

What were the political, economic, and social causes of

the Civil War?

Was the Civil War inevitable?

Considering Jefferson�s use of Lockean theory in the

Declaration of Independence, would the Founding Fathers

have supported or condemned the actions of South Carolina?

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