The Gathering Storm Chapter 15 Lecture Outline © 2013 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
John Brown’s Raid
Slavery in the Territories The Wilmot Proviso Popular Sovereignty
Slavery in the Territories The Free-Soil Coalition The California Gold Rush
Slavery in the Territories California Statehood
The Compromise of 1850 The Return of Henry Clay The Great Debate
The Compromise of 1850 Toward a Compromise The Fugitive Slave Act
The Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom’s Cabin The Election of 1852
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 Douglas’s Nebraska Proposal
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis
The Emergence of the Republican Party “Bleeding Kansas”
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis Violence in the Senate Sectional Politics
The Deepening Sectional Crisis
The Dred Scott Case The Lecompton Constitution
The Deepening Sectional Crisis The Panic of 1857
The Deepening Sectional Crisis Douglas versus Lincoln John Brown’s Raid
The Center Comes Apart The Democrats Divide Lincoln’s Election
The Center Comes Apart
The Response in the South Secession of the Deep South States
The Center Comes Apart Buchanan’s Waiting Game Final Efforts at Compromise
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