Alan Brinkley,
AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e
Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis
Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis
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Introduction
 Territorial Growth
Expanding Settlement, 1810-1850
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The Impending Crisis
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Looking Westward
– Manifest Destiny
 Racial Justification
 Opposition to Further Expansion
– Americans in Texas
 Stephen Austin
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Looking Westward
– Tensions Between the United States and
Mexico
 San Jacinto
 Opposition to Annexation
Sam Houston
(Portrait Gallery)
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Looking Westward
– Oregon
 Disputed Claims
 Conflict between Settlers and Indians
– The Westward Migration
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Western Trails in 1860
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Looking Westward
– Life on the Trail
 The Oregon Trail
 Life on a Trail
A Full Team on the Sierras
(Library of Congress)
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Expansion and War
– The Democrats and Expansion
 James K. Polk
 Compromise over Oregon
James K. Polk
(Portrait Gallery)
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The Oregon Boundary, 1846
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Expansion and War
– The Southwest and California
 Texas Boundary in Dispute
 American Interests in California
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Expansion and War
– The Mexican War
 Failure of the Slidell Mission
 Opposition to the War
 Bear Flag Revolution
 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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The Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Southwestern Expansion, 1845-1853
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The Impending Crisis
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The Sectional Debate
– Slavery and the Territories
 Wilmot Proviso
 Competing Plans
 Free-Soil Party
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Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis
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The Sectional Debate
– The California Gold Rush
 Forty-niners
 Indian Slavery
An 1858 map of California and
Oregon, showing Gold strikes
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Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis
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The Sectional Debate
– Rising Sectional Tensions
 Sectional Conflict
over Slavery in
the Territories
Prominent American
legislators pose while working
out the Compromise of 1850
(Library of Congress)
– The Compromise
of 1850
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 Clay’s Proposed
Solution
 New Leadership
 Temporary
Compromise
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Slave and Free Territories Under the Compromise of 1850
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The Impending Crisis
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The Crises of the 1850s
– The Uneasy Truce
 Opposition to the Fugitive
Slave Act
– “Young America”
 Ostend Manifesto
Franklin Pierce
(Library of Congress)
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Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis
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The Crises of the 1850s
– Slavery, Railroads, and the West
 Transcontinental Railroad and Slavery
 Gadsden Purchase
– The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy
 Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Birth of the Republican Party
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Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis
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The Crises of the 1850s
– “Bleeding Kansas”
 Pottawatomie Massacre
 Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
– The Free-Soil Ideology
 “Free Soil” Ideology
 “Slave Power Conspiracy”
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The Crises of the 1850s
– The Pro-Slavery Argument
 The Pro-Slavery Argument
Anti-Abolitionist
Violence
(Library of Congress)
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The Impending Crisis
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The Crises of the 1850s
– Buchanan and Depression
 Election of 1856
– The Dred Scott Decision
 Taney’s Sweeping Opinion
– Deadlock over Kansas
 Lecompton Constitution Rejected
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Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis

The Crises of the 1850s
– The Emergence of Lincoln
 Lincoln-Douglas Debates
 Lincoln’s Position
Abraham Lincoln
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Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis

The Crises of the 1850s
– John Brown’s Raid
 John Brown’s Raid
The Hanging of John Brown
(Library of Congress)
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Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis

The Crises of the 1850s
– The Election of Lincoln
 Divided Democrats
 Disunion
The Election of 1860
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Chapter Thirteen:
The Impending Crisis
Patterns of Popular Culture:
Lyceums
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