transcendentalism

ralph waldo emerson

self-reliance 1841

henry david throeau

civil disobedience 1839

refuses to post poll tax (MX/AM/slavery)

moby dick

Herman Melville

greatest AM novel

Walt Whitman

O Cap, My Cap

Lincoln & civil war

sam clemens/mark twain

huckleberry finn/tom sawyer

hudson river school

big landscaping

Nat Turner 1831

slave revolt, 60 killed, all slaves caught/executed

Lewis Tappan

• AM anti-slavery society

• worked on Amistad

John Brown

radical abol.

killed fire-eaters

Tubman

• spy, scout, nurse, cook

• moses

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unc Tom’s cabin

Frederick Douglas

learned to read young

escaped in sailor clothes

orator in EU (IR/SCOT)

worked for Lincoln

North Star newspaper

Mason-Dixie line

separates north from south

• PA southern border

Bleeding Kansas

abols. vs fire eaters in Kansas

• popl. sovereignty

Beecher Bible

• guns sent by HBS’s father to Kansas

Wilmot-Proviso 1846

northern cong. tries to ban slavery in MX cess.

• fails, south is suspicious

gold rush

• bear flag revolt ‘46

  • cali is free from MX

• sutter’s mill ‘48

  • gold discovered (days b4 treaty)

• polk tells press

  • merch sellers get rich

Comp of 1850

• North

  • cali, no slave trade in DC

• South

  • popl. sovereignty in UT/NM

  • strong fugitive slave law

AM party/know nothings

• anti-immigration

• neutral on slavery

• split over slavery concerns

prezz

12. Zac Taylor ‘48

    1. last elected whig

    2. dies early

13. Millard Fillmore ‘48

    1. strict slave laws

14. Franklin Pierce ‘52

    1. abol. is a threat

    2. support popl. sovereignty

15. James Buchanan ‘56

    1. against slavery but Const. protects it

Dred Scott vs Sanford ‘57

• blacks aren’t citizens

• slaves who sojourn aren’t free

• Cong has no power to limit slavery

  • Comp of 1820 is UNCONST

KAN/NEB ‘54

• popl. slavery

• Lincoln- “perversion on democracy”

lincoln to ex-whigs

“join reps, not know-nothings”

Lecompton Const ‘57

• southern pro-slavery group to make KN a state

• anti-black BOR

• failed in rep HOR

• Buchanan supports

House Divided ‘58

• Lincoln- “plot to legalize slavery everywhere”

• a house divided against itself cannot stand

  • taney, st. douglas, pierce, buchanan,

Linc vs Doug

• lincoln loses but gains popl.

  • “would u allow a state to ban slavery”

  • Freeport Doctrine

    • make state laws that make slavery inconvenient