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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
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Fruits of Manifest Destiny
• A Dose of Arsenic
• The Rise of the Republican Party
• The Emergence of Lincoln
• The Impending Crisis
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Abraham Lincoln’s nickname, “The Railsplitter,”
recalled his humble origins.
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Fruits of Manifest
Destiny
 Focus Question:
What were the major factors contributing
to U.S. territorial expansion in the 1840s?
Fruits of Manifest
Destiny: Expansion
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Continental Expansion
The Mexican Frontier: New Mexico and
California
Map 13.1 The Trans-Mississippi West, 1830s–1840s
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Fruits of Manifest
Destiny: texas revolt
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The Texas Revolt
The original and final designs for Thomas Crawford’s
Statue of Freedom
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A rare photograph of wagons on their
way to Oregon during the 1840s
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American Progress
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A watercolor of a scene on a ranch near
Monterey, California, in 1849
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A flag carried at the Battle of San Jacinto
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Fruits of Manifest
Destiny: election of 1844
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The Election of 1844
The plaza in San Antonio not long after the
United States annexed Texas in 1845
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Fruits of Manifest
Destiny: Pre-War
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The Road to War
Mexican Soldier Holding Flag
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Fruits of Manifest
Destiny: War
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The War and Its Critics
Combat in Mexico
Map 13.2 The Mexican War, 1846 –1848
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War News from Mexico
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A map of the United States from 1848
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Fruits of Manifest
Destiny: race
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Race and Manifest Destiny
Redefining Race
Fruits of Manifest
Destiny: Gold rush
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Gold-Rush California
California and the Boundaries of
Freedom
The Other Gold Rush
Map 13.3 California Gold Rush
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A contemporary depiction of mining operations
during the California gold rush
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Transportation of Cargo by Westerners
at the Port of Yokohama
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Fruits of Manifest
Destiny: Japan
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Opening Japan
A Dose of Arsenic
 Focus Question:
Why did the expansion of slavery
become the most diverse political issue in
the 1840s and 1850s?
A Dose of Arsenic:
Wilmot Proviso
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The Wilmot Proviso
Map 13.4 Continental Expansion through 1853
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A Dose of Arsenic: Free
soil
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The Free Soil Appeal
A Dose of Arsenic:
compromise
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Crisis and Compromise
The Great Debate
Map 13.5 The Compromise of 1850
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Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts
in a daguerreotype from 1850
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A Dose of Arsenic:
fugitive slaves
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The Fugitive Slave Issue
An 1855 broadside depicting the life of Anthony Burns
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A Dose of Arsenic:
Kansas-Nebraska act
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Douglas and Popular Sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Map 13.6 The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
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The Rise of the
Republican Party
 Focus Question:
What combination of issues and events
fueled the creation of the Republican
Party in the 1850s?
The Rise of the
Republican Party:
northern economy
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The Northern Economy
An 1853 broadside for one section of the
Illinois Central Railroad
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Lagonda Agricultural Works, 1859
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The Rise of the
Republican Party:
Know-nothings
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The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothings
George Catlin’s 1827 painting Five Points
depicts a working-class immigrant neighborhood
in New York City.
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The Propagation Society–More
Free than Welcome
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The Rise of the
Republican Party: Free
labor
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The Free Labor Ideology
Political Chart of the United States
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The Rise of the
Republican Party:
Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas and the Election of 1856
Map 13.7 The railroad network, 1850s
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A contemporary print denounces South Carolina congressman
Preston S. Brooks’s assault on Massachusetts Senator Charles
Sumner in May 1856
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Liberty, the Fair Maid of Kansas, in the Hands
of the “Border Ruffians”
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The Emergence of
Lincoln
 Focus Question:
What enabled Lincoln to emerge as
president from the divisive party politics
of the 1850s?
The Emergence of
Lincoln: dred scott
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The Dred Scott Decision
The Decision’s Aftermath
Dred Scott as painted in 1857
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The Emergence of
Lincoln: slavery
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Lincoln and Slavery
Abraham Lincoln in 1858, the year of the
Lincoln-Douglas debates
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The Emergence of
Lincoln: campaign
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The Lincoln-Douglas Campaign
Stephen A. Douglas in a daguerreotype from around 1853
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The Emergence of
Lincoln: southerners
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John Brown at Harpers Ferry
The Rise of Southern Nationalism
John Brown, 1856
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An 1835 painting of the federal arsenal at
Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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The Emergence of
Lincoln: nomination
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The Democratic Split
The Nomination of Lincoln
The Emergence of
Lincoln: 1860 election
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The Election of 1860
The Impending Crisis
 Focus Question:
What were the final steps on the road to
secession?
The Impending Crisis:
secession movement
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The Secession Movement
An 1860 engraving of a mass meeting in Savannah,
Georgia, shortly after Lincoln’s election as president
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The Impending Crisis:
secession crisis
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The Secession Crisis
Map 13.8 The Presidential Election of 1856
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A Richmond, Virginia, cartoonist in April 1861 depicts
Lincoln as a cat seeking to catch the southern states as
mice fleeing the Union, which lies dead on the left.
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The Impending Crisis:
war
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And the War Came
Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln
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Bombardment of Fort Sumter
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Review
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Fruits of Manifest Destiny
Focus Question: What were the major factors contributing to U. S.
territorial expansion in the 1840s?
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A Dose of Arsenic
Focus Question: Why did the expansion of slavery become the most
diverse political issue in the 1840s and 1850s?
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The Rise of the Republican Party
Focus Question: What combination of issues and events fueled the
creation of the Republican Party in the 1850s?
Review continued
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The Emergence of Lincoln
Focus Question: What enabled Lincoln to emerge as president from
the divisive party politics of the 1850s?
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The Impending Crisis
Focus Question: What were the final steps on the road to secession?
MEDIA LINKS
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Chapter 13
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Eric Foner on the discovery of gold
in California and Australia
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Eric Foner on slavery, pt 7:
expansion of slavery into new
territories
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Eric Foner on economic
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Eric Foner on Lincoln's views on
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Eric Foner on public fascination with
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A New Birth of Freedom: The
Civil War, 1861–1865
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The First Modern War
The Coming of Emancipation
The Second American Revolution
The Confederate Nation
Turning Points
Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End
of the War
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FOURTH EDITION
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