Unit Three: A Manifest Destiny Revealed (1840 - 1877)
geography
Texas,
Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase, Oregon Trail, California, Panama
Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, Oregon, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado
Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New York City
Irish, German, Chinese, Mexican
the people
Seminoles,
Navajo, Mormons, Roman Catholics 49’ers
Whigs, Democrats, Know Nothings, Free Soil / Liberty Parties, Republicans
yankees’, ‘federals’, ‘blue coats’, ‘Copperheads’
‘rebs’, ‘confederates’, ‘seccesh’, ‘bushwackers’
‘contrabands’, Freedmen
scalawag, carpetbagger, Radical Republican, ‘Yellow Dog Democrat’
John Tyler, Sam Houston, James Polk, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster,
John Fremont, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Kit Carson
Charles Sumner, Stephen Douglas, William Seward,
the leaders
Roger B. Taney, Abraham Lincoln
W.L. Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Tubman, Gerrit Smith, Horace Greeley
John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Thomas Nast
Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan, George McClellan,
David Farragut, Joseph Hooker, Winfield Hancock, George Meade
Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, James Longstreet, Joseph Johnston
Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Edwin Stanton, Hiram Revels, Blanche K. Bruce, Joseph Rainey
Hudson River School, William Sydney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, Currier & Ives, Stephen Foster
Panic of 1837, California Gold Rush, Panic of 1857
the economy
petroleum discovered Titusville, PA
Cyrus McCormick, John Deere, Samuel Colt, Samuel Morse, Ezra Cornell, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Gail Borden, Elias Howe, Elijah Otis, Charles Goodyear. Levi Strauss,
Baltimore & Ohio, New York Central, Erie, Pennsylvania (trunk line RR’s), Western Union
Overland Mail Co., Pony Express, Wells Fargo & Co. Homestead Act,
greenbacks,
federal income
tax,
daguerreotype (photography), railroad, telegraph, reaper, clipper ship, revolver pistol, repeating rifle,
new technology
sewing machine, elevator, mason jar, condensed milk, ether anesthesia, vulcanized rubber, denim jeans
Winchester repeating rifle, Spencer repeater, Gatling gun, ‘iron clad’ ships, rifle bore cannon
Manifest Destiny, slavery / abolition, underground railroad, “Bleeding Kansas”, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Seneca Falls Convention, suffragettes
social issues
Transcendentalists, utopians,
‘penny press’, Harper’s Weekly, McGuffey Reader,
New York Times, Associated Press
baseball, P.T. Barnum, potato chips, bananas, ice cream freezer, paper bags, minstrel shows, boxing
1863 Draft Riot, medical care for soldiers, black soldiers, birth of the Ku Klux Klan, Grant scandals
Texas War for Independence, Seminole War, Annexation of Texas, Oregon Treaty,
Mexican War (1846-48), Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850,
Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, “popular sovereignty”,
Commodore Perry ‘opens’ Japan
Dred Scott v Sanford (1857) Trial of John Brown (Harpers Ferry) (1859)
Secession of the South, Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural,
government action
1st
Attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln’s call for volunteers,
Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Union draft, Gettysburg/Vicksburg,
Gettysburg Address, Wilderness Campaign, Sherman’s March
Election of 1864, Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural,
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse,
ex parte Milligan,
13th/14th/15th
presidential Reconstruction, ‘black codes’, congressional Reconstruction,
Amendments,
Freedmen’s Bureau, Reconstruction Acts, Tenure of Office Act, Impeachment of President Johnson