Chapter 13: Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis, 1844-1860
Guiding Questions and Identifications
1. Why did the issues of Texas, Oregon, and California prove so controversial in the 1840s?
2. Who started the Mexican-American War and why?
3. Who opposed the Mexican-American War and why?
4. Why did John C. Calhoun want to limit the territory taken from Mexico to only Calif. and NM?
5. What issues were resolved by the Compromise of 1850? Did the compromise benefit the North or
the South more?
6. What were the main provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Why was this act so controversial?
What were the consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
7. What were the main elements of the Dred Scott decision?
8. Why did the Second Party system collapse? What replaced it?
Identifications:
13.1 Manifest Destiny: South and North
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Trail & “Oregon fever”
Californios
Election of 1844 (Go Henry Clay?)
James K Polk 1844
“Fifty-four forty or fight!”
annexation of Texas
13.2 War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846-1850
Mexican-American War 1846-1848
conscience Whigs
Wilmot Proviso
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
Free-soil movement
Frederick Douglass
Zachary Taylor 1848
California Gold Rush: ’49ers
Popular sovereignty
Millard Fillmore 1850
Compromise of 1850
13.3 The End of the Second Party System, 1850-1858
Fugitive Slave Law
Stephen Douglas
Opposition to Fugitive Slave Law
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Personal-liberty laws
Franklin Pierce 1852
breakup of Whig party
Gadsden Purchase 1853
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Republican Party
Know-Nothing Party
“Bleeding Kansas”
attack on Lawrence, Kansas 1856
John Brown
James Buchanan 1856
Dred Scott v. Sandford decision 1857
Roger Taney
13.4 Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858-1860
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas (yup, again)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Freeport Doctrine
“House Divided” speech
Harper’s Ferry raid 1859
Election of 1860