The Impending Crisis and Civil War
Introduction: Talking About A Revolution witt The Abolitionists
I.
Manifest Destiny
II.
The Mexican War
1. 1844 Election
2. War and Treaty of G/H
3. Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience
III.
The 1850 Compromise
1. Issues
2. An Armistice?
IV.
Irreconcilable Difference
1. UTC
2. Young Americans
3. Kansas Nebraska Act
4. Bleeding Kansas
V.
Republican Politics
VI.
Drifting towards Secession
1. Dred Scott
2. Lincoln Douglas Debate
3. Lecompton
4. John Brown
5. 1860 Election
VII
To Rule or Ruin
1. Confederate Secession
2. Lincoln and Ft. Sumter
3. GOP Programs
4. Mobilization
VIII
Early Phase, 1861-62
1. Bull Run
2. Western Theater
3. Lincoln and His Generals
4. Seven Days and Antietam
IX.
Lincoln and Emancipation
X.
1863
1. The Freedmen
2. Vicksburg and Gettysburg
3. Reconstruction
XI.
Malice Towards None
1. 1864 Politics
2. Into the Wilderness and Oh Atlanta
3. Victory and Death
XII.
Conclusion