The Impending Crisis

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The Impending Crisis

• Chapter 13

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Looking Westward

• Manifest Destiny
• 1840s was the greatest wave of US expansion since
  the Louisiana Purchase

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• Americans in Texas
• Originally claimed in Louisiana Purchase, US
  later attempted purchase from Mexico

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• Mexican-American Tensions
• Main issues

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• Mexican-American Tensions Contd
• Texas Difficulties

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• Oregon
• joint occupation with Britain
• fur trading

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Expansion and War

• The Democrats and Expansion

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• The Southwest and California
• Mexicans end diplomatic relations with US in 1845
  after Texas annexation
• Texas Border dispute
• California

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The Mexican War

• Polk tries again to buy off the Mexicans and
  Mexico refuses

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The Sectional Debate

• Slavery and the Territories

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Fake Smile

• The California Gold Rush
• Gold discovered in California in 1848 forced
  slavery issue to be addressed
• Rising Sectional Tensions
• statehood less responsibility for federal govt

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• The Compromise of 1850
• Henry Clay presented five provisions to the
  Senate in January of 1850

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• The Compromise of 1850 Contd
• The debate lasted seven months and consisted of
  two phases
• first phase
• second phase
• By mid September all the components of the
  compromise signed by President

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Crises of the 1850s

• The Uneasy Truce
• Election of 1852 Franklin Pierce, Northern
  Democrat

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Fugitive Slave Law
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• Young America
• Slavery, Railroads, and the West
• As expansion continued West, question arose
  where to place the center of the railroad
  industry?

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• The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy
• Douglas wants train to go through Chicago, but
  that meant going through Indian Territory

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• Bleeding Kansas
• People from North and South immediately begin
  moving into Kansas

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• Bleeding Kansas Contd
• Pro-slavery forces attack free-state center in
  Lawrence and burn the town

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• The Free-Soil Ideology
• The Pro-Slavery Argument
• Anti-Slavery South

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• Buchanan and Depression
• The Dred Scott Decision

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• Deadlock over Kansas
• Next election anti-slavery groups mobilize and
  vote out pro-slavery legislators, and reject the
  pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution by more than
  10,000 votes

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• The Lincoln / Douglas Debates
• Election for Illinois Senate in 1858
• Significance

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• John Browns Raid
• Plan to take over a military arsenal in Virginia
  to which black slaves might flee to and start a
  slave insurrection in the South
• Results

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• The Election of Lincoln 1860
• Most momentous consequences of any election in
  history

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• The Election of Lincoln 1860 Contd
• Republicans pass up Seward and go with Abraham
  Lincoln