Roark Johnson Cohen Stage Hartmann Lawson The American

Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition CHAPTER 12 The New West and Free North 1840– 1860 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Economic and Industrial Evolution • Agriculture and Land Policy • Manufacturing and Mechanization • Railroads: Breaking the Bonds of Nature

Free Labor: Promise and Reality • The Free-Labor Ideal: Freedom plus Labor • Economic Inequality • Immigrants and the Free-Labor Ladder

The Westward Movement • • Manifest Destiny Oregon and the Overland Trail The Mormon Exodus The Mexican Borderlands

Expansion and the Mexican-American War • • The Politics of Expansion The Mexican-American War, 1846– 1848 Victory in Mexico Golden California

Reforming Self and Society • The Pursuit of Perfection: Transcendentalists and Utopians • Woman’s Rights Activists • Abolitionists and the American Ideal

Chapter 12 The New West and Free North: 1840– 1860 • • • Map 12. 1 Railroads in 1860 (p. 400) Map 12. 2 Major Trails West (p. 409) Map 12. 3 Texas and Mexico in the 1830 s (p. 412) Map 12. 4 The Mexican-American War, 1846– 1848 (p. 416) Map 12. 5 Territorial Expansion by 1860 (p. 420) Figure 12. 1 Antebellum Immigration, 1820– 1860 (p. 406) Global Comparison: Nineteenth-Century School Enrollment and Literacy Rates (p. 404) Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way—near Council Bluffs, Iowa (p. 401) Pioneer Family on the Trail West (p. 411)