James A Henretta Eric Hinderaker Rebecca Edwards Robert
James A. Henretta Eric Hinderaker Rebecca Edwards Robert O. Self America’s History Eighth Edition America: A Concise History Sixth Edition CHAPTER 13 Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis 1844– 1860 Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
I. Manifest Destiny: South and North A. The Push to the Pacific 1. Oregon 2. California
I. Manifest Destiny: South and North B. The Plains Indians 1. The Great Plains 2. The Sioux
I. Manifest Destiny: South and North C. The Fateful Election of 1844 1. “Oregon conventions” 2. “Fifty-four forty or fight!”
II. War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846– 1850 A. The War with Mexico, 1846– 1848 1. Polk’s Expansionist Program 2. American Military Successes
II. War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846– 1850 B. A Divisive Victory 1. The Wilmot Proviso 2. Free Soil 3. The Election of 1848
II. War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846– 1850 C. California Gold and Racial Warfare 1. The Forty-Niners 2. Racial Warfare and Land Rights
II. War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846– 1850 D. 1850: Crisis and Compromise 1. Constitutional Conflict 2. A Complex Compromise
III. The End of the Second Party System, 1850– 1858 A. Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act 1. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
III. The End of the Second Party System, 1850– 1858 B. The Whigs Disintegrate and New Parties Rise 1. Proslavery Initiatives 2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act 3. The Republican and American Parties 4. Bleeding Kansas
III. The End of the Second Party System, 1850– 1858 C. Buchanan’s Failed Presidency 1. The Election of 1856 2. Dred Scott: Petitioner for Freedom
IV. Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858– 1860 A. Lincoln’s Political Career 1. An Ambitious Politician 2. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
IV. Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858– 1860 B. The Union Under Siege 1. The Rise of Radicalism 2. The Election of 1860
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