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1 The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition CHAPTER 12 The New West and Free North 1840–1860 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s Roark Johnson Cohen Stage Hartmann Lawson

2 Economic and Industrial Evolution Agriculture and Land Policy Manufacturing and Mechanization Railroads: Breaking the Bonds of Nature

3 Free Labor: Promise and Reality The Free-Labor Ideal: Freedom plus Labor Economic Inequality Immigrants and the Free-Labor Ladder

4 The Westward Movement Manifest Destiny Oregon and the Overland Trail The Mormon Exodus The Mexican Borderlands

5 Expansion and the Mexican-American War The Politics of Expansion The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848 Victory in Mexico Golden California

6 Reforming Self and Society The Pursuit of Perfection: Transcendentalists and Utopians Woman’s Rights Activists Abolitionists and the American Ideal

7 Chapter 12 The New West and Free North: 1840–1860 Map 12.1 Railroads in 1860 (p. 400) Map 12.2 Major Trails West (p. 409) Map 12.3 Texas and Mexico in the 1830s (p. 412) Map 12.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848 (p. 416) Map 12.5 Territorial Expansion by 1860 (p. 420) Figure 12.1 Antebellum Immigration, 1820–1860 (p. 406) Global Comparison: Nineteenth-Century School Enrollment and Literacy Rates (p. 404) Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way—near Council Bluffs, Iowa (p. 401) Pioneer Family on the Trail West (p. 411)

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