From the Anglo-American War to the Mexican War:
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Slavery and sectional conflict:
“Peculiar institution” and its role in Southern economy and society
Ideology of slavery: paternalism, theories of racial supremacy; stereotype of the Negro
Everyday life on the plantation
Henry Clay and the Missouri Compromise (1820)
Internal improvements, the National Road, Erie Canal (1825)
pathbreaking inventions:
first paddleboat (R. Fulton, 1807), first locomotive (1830)
first telegraph line (1844)
industrial revolution spearheaded by Samuel Slater and Eli Whitney
cotton gin, cotton mills, Whitney’s “American system” of production (interchangeable parts)
Exploring and settling the West:
John Deere and the steel plow (1837)
Oregon and Santa Fe Trails
California Gold Rush (1849)
“prairie schooners”: wagon trains
Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon (1827); the Mormons in Utah
Indian Removal Act
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Indian Territory in Oklahoma
The Age of Andrew Jackson:
Old Hickory: the legend of Andrew Jackson
evolution of the party system; the dawn of modern political culture
the nullification and the bank issues
Whigs; the Manifest Destiny slogan
The Republic of Texas (1836-1845), The Alamo
Samuel Houston, San Jacinto, The Lone Star State
Election of 1844, James K. Polk and annexation of Texas
Mexican War (1846-48), California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado
Oregon Treaty (1846), 49th parallel
From the Mexican War to the Civil War:
Urbanization and social tensions in the North
Immigration from Ireland and Germany
Anti-immigrant backlash (nativism): Know-Nothings
The South:
The “peculiar institution”: conditions of life under slavery
Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
Sectional antagonism and causes of the Civil War:
Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom’s Cabin ; Kansas-Nebraska Bill, “Bleeding Kansas”
Underground railroad, Harriet Tubman
Abolitionists, John Brown, Harper’s Ferry
William Lloyd Garrison and his Liberator; Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Stephen Douglas and popular sovereignty
demise of the Whigs, Republican Party
Lincoln-Douglas debates, election of Abraham Lincoln
secession of South Carolina (Dec. 20, 1860)
Confederate States of America: North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee
Montgomery, Alabama; Richmond, Virginia
border states: Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas
Jefferson Davis; attack on Fort Sumter, SC (April 12, 1861)
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