unit 5 chapters 12-13 · 2016-12-11 · the american claim] is by the right of our manifest destiny...
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Unit5
Chapters12-13
� [TheAmericanclaim]isbytherightofourmanifestdestinytooverspreadandtopossessthewholeofthecontinentwhichProvidencehasgivenusforthedevelopmentofthegreatexperimentofliberty…
-JohnL.O Sullivan,1845
“American Progress” -John Gast
� AroostookWar, 1839-1842
� DividingOregon(1846)
Polk’s “Fifty-
Four Forty or Fight!”
� AnnexationofTexas,1845� Electionof1844
� TheSlidellMission-1845
� GeneralZacharyTaylor
� 5/11/1846� warexists…by
theActofMexico
herself.
John C. Frémont
June 1846
February1847
Old Rough and Ready
March 1847
Sept. 1847
Old Fuss and Feathers
NicholasTrist,AmericanNegotiator
1. Cost2. NewWarHeroes
3. NewTerritory
4. Reignitestheslaveryissue -WilmotProviso-1846
Between1840and1860,morethan250,000peoplemadethetrekwest.
John A. Sutter
1846-1847
� MissouriStatehood&the
TallmadgeAmendment
� 1828-SouthCarolinaExposition� 1832-Nullification
� 1833-ClayCompromise&Force
Bill
� Free-SoilParty,1848
� freesoil,freelabor,&freemen
� 36°30 westwardtothePacific
� LewisCass popularsovereignty
� Electionof1848
Cass (D) Taylor (W) Van Buren (F)
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass
1. Californiaadmittedasafreestate
2. PopularSovereigntyusedintheMexicanCession
3. ProhibitedthebuyingandsellingofslavesinD.C.
4. EnforcedanewstricterFugitiveSlaveLaw
Harriet Beecher Stowe
�So you�re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.�
-Lincoln
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Log-rolling
• Divided Nebraska into 2 territories: Nebraska & Kansas
• In effect it repealed 36º30� line.
� TheRepublicanPartyisformedovertheissueofslaveryintheterritories.
� Electionof1856
Lecompton vs. Topeka
Sumner Brooks
Chief Justice Roger Taney
Dred Scott
1858
Senate Campaign
Freeport, Illinois
� JohnBrown
�Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done.�
� TheDemocratsSplit
� NorthernDemocrats-StephenDouglas
� SouthernDemocrats-JohnC.
Breckinridge
� RepublicansnominatedLincoln
� ConstitutionalUnionPartychoseJohn
Bell
12/20/1860
SenatorJohnCrittendenofKY
� Allowslaverysouthof36°30 inallterritories
� ProhibitabolitioninD.C.withoutitsconsent
� Nat lgov tcouldn tinterferewiththeinterstateslavetrade
� Fullcompensationtoownersofrescued”fugitiveslaves
SenatorJohnCrittendenofKY
� Congresscouldn�tabolishslaverywithinaslavestate
� Nofutureamendmentcouldchange
theseamendments
� February1861� PresidentJeffersonDavis
� VicePresidentAlexanderStephens
*Fort Sumter
*April 12, 1861
What were the political, economic, and social causes of
the Civil War?
Was the Civil War inevitable?
Considering Jefferson�s use of Lockean theory in the
Declaration of Independence, would the Founding Fathers
have supported or condemned the actions of South Carolina?