AP US History Unit 6 Content Outline

Slavery

______ causes major sectionalism in the USA

Cotton Gin

_________ gives slavery new life

Southern “apologists”

____________ argued slaves were better off than northern factory workers

Stono River, Denmark Vessey, and Nat Turner

____________________ slave rebellions, all ending in failure

William Lloyd Garrison

___________ publishes the very radical Liberator

Frederick Douglass

___________ was more moderate and published the North Star

Manifest Destiny

____________: the God-given right to expand sea-to-sea

Texas

Mexico declares independence from Spain, needs Americans who bring slaves, Mexico outlaws slavery, Texans declare independence and ________ is annexed by Polk in 1845

Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842

Treaty signed between US and English Canada divides land along border after the Lumberjack War (1838-1839)

Election of 1844

James Polk (Democrat, pro-expansion) against Henry Clay (Whig), Polk wins

James Polk's Plan

-Annex Texas
-“54-40 or Fight!“ – lumberjacks, trappers want north border of Oregon
-Settled on 49 degree line to avoid war with England because he realized he couldn’t fight two wars at once
-Triggers war with Mexico to gain CA, NM, AZ

Mexican War 1846-1848

-Mexico refuses to honor US annexation of Texas
-Polk offers $30 million for California and New Mexico/Arizona
-Mexico refuses so he orders troops to the border
-War Begins

Free Soil

________ political party organized to oppose spread of slavery

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

__________ grants US AZ, NM, CA, NV, UT for $18 million, ended war between US and Mexico

Gadsden Purchase

1853 for railroad land passing through southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico

Gold

____ discovered in California in 1848 (thousands head west, opening up new trails and lands for settlers)

Bleeding Kansas

_________ = mini Civil War

Republican Party

Whigs and Free Soilers form new (modern) ____________, they push for ending end of slavery & American System ideas to unite

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

______________________ is national best-seller and opens Europeans and Northerners eyes to the horrors of slavery

Kansas-Nebraska Act

_______________ allows Popular Sovereignty

slavery

Lincoln-Douglas Debates over future of _______

Abraham Lincoln

The Republican Party – organized to stop the spread of slavery and elects ____________

Jacksonian democracy

______________: land for all people (white men