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Analyze the causes and consequences of pro-slavery and aboloshinist groups' respective beliefs in their own superior moral identity.

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Explain how both the North and South felt threatened  by the other sides ability to control the federal government and legislature against the interests of the region.

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Explain the impact of territorial acquisition in intensifying sectional conquest.

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Analyze the degree to which and the ways in which the shift of pro-slavery and antislavery forces to more extreme positions worsened the sectional crisis.

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The consequences and causes of pro-slavery and abolitionist beliefs on their own identity.

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Degree and ways of which pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces worsened the sectional crisis.

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Territorial acquisition and how it affected increasing conquest.

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Analyze how both the North and South were threatened by the others side control of government and against the interest of the region.

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P. 340-341 Manifest Destiny (second paragraph) 

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P. 340-341 Manifest Destiny (second paragraph) 

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Many Americans defended the idea of Westward expansion by citing the superiority of the "American Race"- White people of northern European origins. “The nonwhite” peoples of these territories could not be absorbed into the Republican system. The Indians, the Mexicans, and others in the Western regions were racially unfit to be part of the “American community”. Westward expansion was a movement to spread political system and a racially defined society.

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p. 344 - westward migration (Second and Third Paragraph)

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p. 344 - westward migration (Second and Third Paragraph)

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Prosperous young people migrating West in search of new life. Migrants hoped for quick riches and other people wanted to take advantage of the vast public lands the federal government was selling.

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P. 342 Opposition to America (First paragraph)

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P. 342 Opposition to America (First paragraph)

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Texans hoped for annexation by the United States. Many Northern Americans opposed acquiring large new slave territory, and others opposed increasing the southern votes in congress and electoral college.

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P. 351 Slavery and The Territories (First paragraph)

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P. 351 Slavery and The Territories (First paragraph)

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David Wilmont an antislavery Democrat introduced an amendment to a bill stating slavery would not exist in any land gained from Mexico. Passed the house because their is more population in the North but not the Senate.

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P. 341 Opposition to Further Expansion (First paragraph)

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P. 341 Opposition to Further Expansion (First paragraph)

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Henry clay and other prominent politicians feared that territorial expansion would reopen controversy over slavery and stability of the Union.

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P. 351 Slavery and The Territories (First Paragraph)

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P. 351 Slavery and The Territories (First Paragraph)

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David Wilmont passed bill stating that any land gained from Mexico would not allow slavery.

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P. 351 Competing Plans (First Paragraph)

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P. 351 Competing Plans (First Paragraph)

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As the sectional debate intensified, President Polk supported a proposal to extend the Missouri compromise line through the new territories to the Pacific coast, banning slavery north of the line and permitting it south of the line.

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P. 351 Competing Plans (Second Paragraph)

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P. 351 Competing Plans (Second Paragraph)

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New political parties emerge
Free soil party- were against extension of slavery into territories

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The fate of the newly acquired land- as long as they were territories the federal government would decide the fate of slavery.

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Personal liberty laws- Laws passed by Northern states that barred involvement in returning runaway slaves.

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P. 353 The Compromise of 1850 (Clay's Proposed solution)

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P. 353 The Compromise of 1850 (Clay's Proposed solution)

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California is admitted as a free state and this will give free states the advantage in senate.

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Slave trade is outlawed in Washington DC.

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P. 354-355 The Crises of 1850 (The Uneasy Truce)

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P. 354-355 The Crises of 1850 (The Uneasy Truce)

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North opposes fugitive slave act- personal liberty laws- this leads to tension between the North and the South.

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Franklin Pierce and the expansion of American democracy as a way to divert attention from the controversies of slavery.

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In response to the Gadsden purchase the North wanted their own railroad. They propose popular sovereignty in Nebraska. This is a problem because it would overturn the Missouri compromise. They decide that Kansas would be a slave state and Nebraska would be a free state but it does not end up working out.

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Pro and anti-slavery people show up in large numbers to vote. We see a lot of violence and tension build. Lawrence a free soil town is burned to the ground. Charles Sumner a senator is beaten at his desk. Pottawatomie massacre murdered five pro-slavery settlers.

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Believed slavery took away jobs from Whites. This helps create the Republican party.

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The Northern vision was the South was the antithesis of democracy and that the South sought to expand slavery and must be destroyed.

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The ideology on slavery in the South was a result of many things such as the Nat Turner uprising in 1831 which determined southern whites to make slavery more secure. In response to the pressures of writings and slave revolts southerners produced a new intellectual defense on slavery. John C. Calhoun stated that Southerners should stop thinking of slavery as a necessary evil and defend it as a positive good. Southerners argued it was good for the slaves because they had better condition then industrial workers in the North. They also argued that the two races could live together in peace. They also thought it was good because the southern economy was based on slavery.

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Seven debates for the Illinois senate seat. Douglas wins but in the process he alienates the South.

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Hoped to incite slave rebellion

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Lincoln wins without receiving a single electoral vote from the South and this will cause some states to secede from the Union.

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Bleeding Kansas P. 356 (Culture and Society) 

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Bleeding Kansas P. 356 (Culture and Society) 

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This picture depicts the Pottawatomie massacre.

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Opposition to Further Expansion P. 341 (Migration and settlement)

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Opposition to Further Expansion P. 341 (Migration and settlement)

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This picture depicts Henry Clay a prominent politician who feared that territorial expansion would reopen slavery.

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Young America P. 355 (Politics and Power

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Young America P. 355 (Politics and Power

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This picture depicts Franklin Pierce who expanded American democracy as a way to divert attention form the controversies of slavery.

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The Pro- Slavery Argument (American and National Identity) 

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The Pro- Slavery Argument (American and National Identity) 

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Writings on slavery determined white southerners to make slavery more secure.