Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Introduction Territorial Growth Expanding Settlement, 1810-1850 2 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward – Manifest Destiny Racial Justification Opposition to Further Expansion – Americans in Texas Stephen Austin 3 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward – Tensions Between the United States and Mexico San Jacinto Opposition to Annexation Sam Houston (Portrait Gallery) 4 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward – Oregon Disputed Claims Conflict between Settlers and Indians – The Westward Migration 5 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Western Trails in 1860 6 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward – Life on the Trail The Oregon Trail Life on a Trail A Full Team on the Sierras (Library of Congress) 7 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War – The Democrats and Expansion James K. Polk Compromise over Oregon James K. Polk (Portrait Gallery) 8 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Oregon Boundary, 1846 9 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War – The Southwest and California Texas Boundary in Dispute American Interests in California 10 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War – The Mexican War Failure of the Slidell Mission Opposition to the War Bear Flag Revolution Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 11 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Mexican War, 1846-1848 12 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Southwestern Expansion, 1845-1853 13 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate – Slavery and the Territories Wilmot Proviso Competing Plans Free-Soil Party 14 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate – The California Gold Rush Forty-niners Indian Slavery An 1858 map of California and Oregon, showing Gold strikes (Royalty-Free / CORBIS) 15 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis 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 16 Clay’s Proposed Solution New Leadership Temporary Compromise © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Slave and Free Territories Under the Compromise of 1850 17 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s – The Uneasy Truce Opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act – “Young America” Ostend Manifesto Franklin Pierce (Library of Congress) 18 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis 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 19 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s – “Bleeding Kansas” Pottawatomie Massacre Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner – The Free-Soil Ideology “Free Soil” Ideology “Slave Power Conspiracy” 20 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s – The Pro-Slavery Argument The Pro-Slavery Argument Anti-Abolitionist Violence (Library of Congress) 21 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis 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 22 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s – The Emergence of Lincoln Lincoln-Douglas Debates Lincoln’s Position Abraham Lincoln (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) 23 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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) 24 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s – The Election of Lincoln Divided Democrats Disunion The Election of 1860 25 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Patterns of Popular Culture: Lyceums 26 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.