The Impending Crisis
Talking About a Revolution
The Abolitionists
Expansionism
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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
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World Perspectives
Role of Providence
The American Way of Life
Ethnocentrism
Looking WEST
Sectional Tensions
John O’ Sullivan and the Press
The 1844 Election
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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
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Polk Doctrine & Jingoism
Northern Interests: Free Soilers
54/40 or Fight
Negotiations along 49 parallel
1859 Statehood
Polk and Mexico
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The Southwest
Californios
Unsettled Biz in Texas
Slidell Mission and Rebuke
Question of the Rio Grande
Showdown and War
War with Mexico
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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
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Southern Extremists: Fire in the Belly
Constitutional Questions
1848: Presidential Politics
The Gold Rush
Abolitionists
Zack Taylor and Popular Sovereignty
Other Voices
1850 Compromise
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An ARMISTICE
Banning Slave Trade
Fugitive Slave Act
California as 31st State: Monterey Redux
Popular Sovereignty as Model
Future of Agreement?
Abolitionists & Freesoilers
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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
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Ardent Expansionists
Japan and Asia
Cuban Interlopers
Mexico
Grey Eyed Man of Destiny
Slavocratic Power
Kansas Nebraska
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A National Railroad
Stephen Douglas & Congress
Northern Outrage in ’54
Testing Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas: Prelude to Civil War
National Debates Rage
Republican Party
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Constituencies
Non Extensionism
Other Issues
Free soil, Free men and Fremont
Victory in defeat?
Flirting with Disaster
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Buchanan: Political Doughface
Panic of 1857
Events in Kansas
Lecompton Constitution
Southern Response
Democratic Party Politics
The Dred Scott Decision
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The Issues
Roger Taney
Blacks Have No Rights
Congress Has No Authority
Constitutional Issues
Republican Response
Lincoln Douglas Debates
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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
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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?