REVIEW 6: 1845 TO 1877

I. MANIFEST DESTINY CONTINUED

A. War for Texas Independence (1836)

B. Mexican War(1846-48): Wilmot Proviso; Nueces River dispute; General
Zachary Taylor; Bear Flag Republic; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

C. Gadsen Purchase (1853)

II. POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE 1850'S: See Study Guide 6A

III. ROAD TO CIVIL WAR

A. Compromise of 1850: California, popular sovereignty, slave trade
abolished in Washington DC, new Fugitive Slave Law

B. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852): Harriet Beecher Stowe

C. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854): Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty,
NEGATED MISSOURI COMPROMISE, resulted in Bleeding Kansas

D. Formation of Republican Party (1854): Formed in opposition to
Kansas-Nebraska Act, John C. Fremont first presidential candidate
in 1856

E. Sumner-Brooks Altercation (1856)

F. Dred Scot Decision (1857): Chief Justice Roger Taney; Ruled that
Scot was not a citizen and had no standing in court, Congress had
no right to prohibit slavery in a territory

G. The Impending Crisis of the South (1857): Hinton Helper,
attempted to prove that non-slaveholding poor whites were hurt most
by slavery

H. John Brown's Raid (1859): Attack on federal arsenal at Harper's
Ferry, Virginia; arrested, tried, and hanged; considered a martyr
by many in the North

I. Election of 1860: South Carolina responds to Lincoln's election
by passing An Ordinance of Secession December 20, 1860


IV. CIVIL WAR (1861-1865): See Civil War Packet


V. RECONSTRUCTION: See Handout