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The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

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Page 1: The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

The Impending Crisis

Talking About a Revolution

The Abolitionists

Page 2: 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

Page 3: The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

Manifest Destiny

• World Perspectives

• Role of Providence

• The American Way of Life

• Ethnocentrism

• Looking WEST

• Sectional Tensions

• John O’ Sullivan and the Press

Page 4: The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

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

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The Oregon Question

• Polk Doctrine & Jingoism

• Northern Interests: Free Soilers

• 54/40 or Fight

• Negotiations along 49 parallel

• 1859 Statehood

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Polk and Mexico

• The Southwest

• Californios

• Unsettled Biz in Texas

• Slidell Mission and Rebuke

• Question of the Rio Grande

• Showdown and War

Page 7: The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

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

Page 8: The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

Irrepressible Conflict

• Southern Extremists: Fire in the Belly

• Constitutional Questions

• 1848: Presidential Politics

• The Gold Rush

• Abolitionists

• Zack Taylor and Popular Sovereignty

• Other Voices

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1850 Compromise

• An ARMISTICE

• Banning Slave Trade

• Fugitive Slave Act

• California as 31st State: Monterey Redux

• Popular Sovereignty as Model

• Future of Agreement?

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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

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The Young Americans

• Ardent Expansionists

• Japan and Asia

• Cuban Interlopers

• Mexico

• Grey Eyed Man of Destiny

• Slavocratic Power

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Kansas Nebraska

• A National Railroad

• Stephen Douglas & Congress

• Northern Outrage in ’54

• Testing Popular Sovereignty

• Bleeding Kansas: Prelude to Civil War

• National Debates Rage

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Republican Party

• Constituencies

• Non Extensionism

• Other Issues

• Free soil, Free men and Fremont

• Victory in defeat?

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Flirting with Disaster

• Buchanan: Political Doughface

• Panic of 1857

• Events in Kansas

• Lecompton Constitution

• Southern Response

• Democratic Party Politics

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The Dred Scott Decision

• The Issues

• Roger Taney

• Blacks Have No Rights

• Congress Has No Authority

• Constitutional Issues

• Republican Response

Page 16: The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

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?

Page 17: The Impending Crisis Talking About a Revolution The Abolitionists

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

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The Impending Crisis

• Could the secession crisis have been averted? What were the options?