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Chapter 16
America:
A Narrative History
7th edition by
George Brown Tindall
and David Emory Shi

2. I. Slavery in the territories
A. Proposals sparked by Mexican War
1. Wilmot Proviso
2. Calhoun’s resolutions
3. Popular sovereignty
B. Oregon as free state

3. I. Slavery in the territories (cont’d)
C. Election of 1848
1. Whigs and Taylor
2. Free-soil coalition
a. Barnburners
b. Conscience Whigs
c. Liberty party
d. Martin Van Buren
3. Results
D. California
1. Gold rush
a. Migration
b. Mining frontier
2. Statehood

4. II. The Compromise of 1850 A. The context 1. Controversies
2. Participants
B. Initial positions
1. Clay’s eight proposals
2. Calhoun’s reply
3. Webster’s plea for Union
4. Seward’s antislavery reply
5. Comprehensive bill

5. II. The Compromise of 1850 C. Reaching a compromise
1. Fillmore succeeds Taylor
2. Douglas’s strategy
3. Terms of compromise
D. Antislavery reaction
1. Protests against Fugitive Slave Law
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
E. Election of 1852
1. Candidates
2. Results

6. III. Foreign affairs A. Ostend Manifesto B. Diplomacy in the Pacific
1. Opening in China
2. Perry in Japan

7. IV. Kansas-Nebraska controversy
A. Transcontinental railroad
1. Gadsden Purchase
2. Douglas’s Nebraska bill
a. Repeal of Missouri Compromise
b. Antislavery opposition
B. Emergence of Republican party
1. End of Whig party
2. Know-Nothing party
3. New coalition party

8. IV. Kansas-Nebraska controversy (cont’d)
C. Battle for Kansas
1. Settlement
2. Elections
3. Clash of governments
4. Pottawatomie Massacre
5. Brooks-Sumner clash in Congress
D. Election of 1856
1. Republican nominee
2. Democratic candidate
3. Sectional campaigns
4. Election of Buchanan

9. V. Worsening sectional crisis under Buchanan
A. The Dred Scott decision
1. The case
2. Court’s decision
3. Calls for a federal slave code
B. Movement for Kansas statehood
1. Governor Walker’s efforts
2. Defeat of Lecompton constitution
C. Financial panic of 1857
1. Causes
2. Sectional reactions

10. V. Worsening sectional crisis under Buchanan (cont’d)
D. Lincoln-Douglas contest
1. Candidates and their views
2. Debates
a. The Freeport Doctrine
b. Lincoln’s moral question
3. Results
E. John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry

11. VI. Election of 1860 A. Democrats 1. Deadlocked convention
2. Rump Democrats nominate Douglas
3. Proslavers name Breckinridge
B. Republicans nominate Lincoln
C. Constitutional Union party
D. The campaign
E. Results

12. VII. Secession A. Deep South acts B. Buchanan’s reactions
C. Federal property in seceded South
D. Last compromise attempts

13. Map 1

14. Map 2

15. Map 3

16. Map 3 detail

17. Map 4

18. Map 5

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