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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
• World Perspectives
• Role of Providence
• The American Way of Life
• Ethnocentrism
• Looking WEST
• Sectional Tensions
• John O’ Sullivan and the Press
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
The Oregon Question
• Polk Doctrine & Jingoism
• Northern Interests: Free Soilers
• 54/40 or Fight
• Negotiations along 49 parallel
• 1859 Statehood
Polk and Mexico
• The Southwest
• Californios
• Unsettled Biz in Texas
• Slidell Mission and Rebuke
• Question of the Rio Grande
• Showdown and War
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
Irrepressible Conflict
• Southern Extremists: Fire in the Belly
• Constitutional Questions
• 1848: Presidential Politics
• The Gold Rush
• Abolitionists
• Zack Taylor and Popular Sovereignty
• Other Voices
1850 Compromise
• An ARMISTICE
• Banning Slave Trade
• Fugitive Slave Act
• California as 31st State: Monterey Redux
• Popular Sovereignty as Model
• Future of Agreement?
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
The Young Americans
• Ardent Expansionists
• Japan and Asia
• Cuban Interlopers
• Mexico
• Grey Eyed Man of Destiny
• Slavocratic Power
Kansas Nebraska
• A National Railroad
• Stephen Douglas & Congress
• Northern Outrage in ’54
• Testing Popular Sovereignty
• Bleeding Kansas: Prelude to Civil War
• National Debates Rage
Republican Party
• Constituencies
• Non Extensionism
• Other Issues
• Free soil, Free men and Fremont
• Victory in defeat?
Flirting with Disaster
• Buchanan: Political Doughface
• Panic of 1857
• Events in Kansas
• Lecompton Constitution
• Southern Response
• Democratic Party Politics
The Dred Scott Decision
• The Issues
• Roger Taney
• Blacks Have No Rights
• Congress Has No Authority
• Constitutional Issues
• Republican Response
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?
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
The Impending Crisis
• Could the secession crisis have been averted? What were the options?