Give Me Liberty! Chapter 13 Reading Guide
Academic Vocab
Manifest Destiny
The Santa Fe Trail
Californios
Indios
Gente de razon
“common good”
Tejanos
Chapter 13 – A House Divided - Introduction
How did the issue of slavery impact even art and design by the 1850s?
FRUITS OF MANIFEST DESTINY (493-506)
 Continental Expansion
Oregon Territory>
 The Mexican Frontier>
New Mexico >
California >
 The Texas Revolt >
Stephen F Austin
 The Election of 1844 >
Santa Anna
The Alamo
John Tyler >
Henry Clay >
James K Polk >
Whigs
“Fifty-four forty or fight!” >
 The Road to War >
Dark horse
Four-Point Plan >
 The War and Its Critics >
Herman Melville
Ulysses S Grant >
Henry David Thoreau >
Abraham Lincoln >
Bear Flag Republic
 Combat in Mexico
John C Fremont >
Battle of Buena Vista >
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Mexican Cession >
 Race and Manifest Destiny
“free enjoyment of their liberty and property”
John L O’Sullivan
 Redefining Race >
 Gold-Rush California
El Dorado
Johan A Sutter >
 California and the Boundaries of Freedom
“foreign miners”
Impact on Calforinia’s Indians >
 The Other Gold Rush
 Opening Japan >
Commadore
Matthew Perry
Answer: What were the major factors that contributed to U.S. territorial expansion in the 1840s?
A DOSE OF ARSENIC (506-512)
 The Wilmot Proviso >
Missouri
Compromise
Zachary Taylor >
 Free Soil Appeal >
Free Soil Platform 1848 >
 Crisis & Compromise>
World View >
Free Soil Party
U. S. View >
 The Great Debate >
Daniel Webster >
John C Calhoun >
William Seward >
Millard Fillmore >
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Fugitive Slave Act
of 1850
 The Fugitive Slave Issue >
Emerson >
Margaret Garner
 Douglas and Popular Sovereignty >
“The great
triumvirate”
Popular
sovereignty
 The Kansas-Nebraska Act >
Appeal of the Independent Democrats >
Impact of Kansas-Nebraska Act >
Answer: Why did the expansion of slavery become the most divisive political issues in the 1840s &
the 1850s?
THE RISE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY (513-519)
“balloon frame”
houses
 The Northern Economy >
1843-1857 & economic growth in the North >
Industrial production
 The Rise & Fall of the Know-Nothings =The American Party >
nativism
 The Free Labor Ideology
free society v slave
society
The Republican Party >
William Seward >
 Bleeding Kansas & the Election of 1856>
Andrew H Reeder
Election irregularities >
Rep Preston Brooks & the caning of Charles Sumner >
James Buchanan >
Answer: What combination of issues and events fueled the creation of the Republican Party in the
1850s?
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Residence on free
soil…
THE EMERGENCE OF LINCOLN (519-528)
 The Dred Scott Decision >
Case history & ruling >
Chief Justice Roger
Taney
 The Decision’s Aftermath >
Dred Scott & Harriett >
President James Buchanan’s comments >
 Lincoln & Slavery >
George Fitzhugh

Lincoln-Douglas Campaign Illinois >
Lincoln >
L/D Debates >
Douglas>
Henry A Wise
Thoreau
Pierre Sole
 John Brown at Harpers Ferry events and actions >
Impact on the South >
 The Rise of Southern Nationalism >
Filibuster
William Walker >
“fire-eaters”
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Southern leaders >
The Lecompton
Constitution
 The Democratic Split >
 The Nomination of Lincoln
 The Election of 1860 >
Candidates >
Election Results/Impact >
Answer: What enabled Lincoln to emerge as president from the divisive party politics of the 1850s?
Ultimatum
Declaration of the
Immediate Causes
of Secession
THE IMPENDING CRISIS (528-532
 The Secession Movement
 The Secession Crisis
President Buchanan >
Senator John J Crittenden & Compromise >
Abraham Lincoln takes office, March 4, 1861 >
 And the War Came
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First shots of the
Civil War
Lincoln’s Inaugural Address & first months >
Ft Sumter>
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow >
Chapter 14 Review Questions:
1. Explain the justifications for the doctrine of manifest destiny, including material and idealistic
motivations.
2. What economic forces promoted continental expansion in the 1830s & 1840s?
3. Why did many Americans criticize the Mexican War? How did they see expansion as a threat to
American liberties?
4. How did the concept of “race” develop by the mid-nineteenth century, and how did it enter into
the manifest destiny debate?
5. Explain the factors behind the creation of the Republican Party?
6. What three questions did the Supreme Court address in the Dred Scott case? Assess the Court’s
arguments.
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7. Based on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, how did the views of both men differ on the expansion of
slavery, equal rights, and the role of the national government?
8. What were the international implications of southern nationalism?
9. Explain how sectional voting patterns in the 1860 presidential election allowed southern “fireeaters” to justify secession.
Chapter Vocab
Santa Fe Trail
Tejanos
Know-Nothing Party
Californios
Henry Clay
Preston Brooks
the Texas revolt
Santa Anna
manifest destiny
Wilmot Proviso
Free Soil Party
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
John Frémont
William Walker
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Ostend Manifesto
appeal of the Independent Democrats
filibustering
John Brown
“fire-eaters”
Dred Scott
Abraham Lincoln
Free Soil Party
the caning of Charles Sumner
Dred Scott decisions
Lecompton Constitution
Harpers Ferry
“filibustering” expeditions
Compromise of 1850
Henry David Thoreau
David Wilmot
gold rush
John Breckinridge
Stephen Douglas
“reannexation” of Texas and “reoccupation” of Oregon
popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
“balloon frame” houses
Know-Nothing Party
the Slave Power
“Bleeding Kansas”
Martin Van Buren
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