Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Introduction Territorial Growth Expanding Settlement, 1810-1850 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Manifest Destiny Racial Justification Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Manifest Destiny Racial Justification Opposition to Further Expansion Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Americans in Texas Stephen Austin Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Tensions Between the United States and Mexico Goliad and the Alamo The Alamo (Larry Brownstein/ Getty Images) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Tensions Between the United States and Mexico Goliad and the Alamo San Jacinto Sam Houston (Portrait Gallery) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Tensions Between the United States and Mexico Goliad and the Alamo San Jacinto Opposition to Annexation Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Oregon Disputed Claims Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Oregon Disputed Claims Conflict between Settlers and Indians Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward The Westward Migration Western Trails in 1860 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Life on the Trail The Oregon Trail Oregon Trail Marker (D. Falconer/ PhotoLink/ Getty Images) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Looking Westward Life on the Trail The Oregon Trail A Full Team on the Sierras (Library of Congress) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War The Democrats and Expansion James K. Polk James K. Polk (Portrait Gallery) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War The Democrats and Expansion James K. Polk Compromise over Oregon The Oregon Boundary, 1846 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War The Southwest and California Texas Boundary in Dispute Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War The Southwest and California Texas Boundary in Dispute American Interests in California Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War The Mexican War Failure of the Slidell Mission The Mexican War, 1846-1848 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War The Mexican War Failure of the Slidell Mission Opposition to the War The Mexican War, 1846-1848 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War The Mexican War Failure of the Slidell Mission Opposition to the War Bear Flag Revolution San Francisco, 1847 (Royalty-Free / CORBIS) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Expansion and War The Mexican War Failure of the Slidell Mission Opposition to the War Bear Flag Revolution Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Southwestern Expansion, 1845-1853 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate Slavery and the Territories Wilmot Proviso Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate Slavery and the Territories Wilmot Proviso Competing Plans Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate Slavery and the Territories Wilmot Proviso Competing Plans Free-Soil Party Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate The California Gold Rush Forty-Niners An 1858 map of California and Oregon, showing Gold strikes (Royalty-Free / CORBIS) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate The California Gold Rush Forty-Niners Indian Slavery Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate Rising Sectional Tensions California Statehood Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate Rising Sectional Tensions California Statehood Sectional Conflict over Slavery in the Territories Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate The Compromise of 1850 Clay’s Proposed Solution Slave and Free Territories Under the Compromise of 1850 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate The Compromise of 1850 Clay’s Proposed Solution New Leadership Prominent American legislators pose while working out the Compromise of 1850 (Library of Congress) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Sectional Debate The Compromise of 1850 Clay’s Proposed Solution New Leadership Temporary Compromise Slave and Free Territories Under the Compromise of 1850 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Uneasy Truce Opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act Franklin Pierce (Library of Congress) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s “Young America” Ostend Manifesto Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s Slavery, Railroads, and the West Transcontinental Railroad and Slavery An 1859 map showing proposed rail lines for the Transcontinental Railroad (and surrounded by railroad magnates) (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s Slavery, Railroads, and the West Transcontinental Railroad and Slavery Gadsden Purchase Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy Kansas-Nebraska Act Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy Kansas-Nebraska Act Birth of the Republican Party Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s “Bleeding Kansas” Pottawatomie Massacre John Brown (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s “Bleeding Kansas” Pottawatomie Massacre Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Free-Soil Ideology “Free Soil” Ideology Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Free-Soil Ideology “Free Soil” Ideology “Slave Power Conspiracy” Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Pro-Slavery Argument Anti-Abolitionist Violence (Library of Congress) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s Buchanan and Depression Election of 1856 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Dred Scott Decision Taney’s Sweeping Opinion Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s Deadlock over Kansas Lecompton Constitution Rejected Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Emergence of Lincoln Lincoln-Douglas Debates Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Emergence of Lincoln Lincoln-Douglas Debates Lincoln’s Position Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s John Brown’s Raid The Hanging of John Brown (Library of Congress) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Election of Lincoln Divided Democrats The Election of 1860 Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis The Crises of the 1850s The Election of Lincoln Divided Democrats Disunion Abraham Lincoln (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc

Chapter Thirteen: The Impending Crisis Patterns of Popular Culture: Lyceums Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc