1. Legacies of the Mexican American War

2. Frederick Douglas A nation of inconsistencies The American Hypocrisy
4th of July Speech
“Yours” vs “Mine”
DOI= ringbolt of democracy and American Identity
"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.

3. Abe Lincoln 1838 Young Men Lyceum Address
“How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.”

6. Legacies of the Mexican American War
ENTRANCE TICKET-
What are the 5 main points of the Compromise of 1850?

7. Harper’s Ferry and John BRown
A “Negro Insurrection”?
17 whites and 5 blacks (some former slaves) intended to capture the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry, VA
Lee sent by Buchanan to end the insurrection
Triggered wave of paranoia in the South- *Fear Thesis
Provoked Northern apologist sympathizers to try to differentiate the man from the cause
“His are the errors of the fanatic, not the crimes of a felon…there are fit and unfit modes of combating a great evil.”- Horace Greeley, NY Tribune