north and south conflict

North and South in Conflict

railroad building

Walker Tariff (1846)

causes of industrial growth

transportation revolution – impact of

clipper ships

transcontinental railroad

Commonwealth vs. Hunt

Irish German immigration

Southern Society

King Cotton

Fire-eaters

popular sovereignty/squatter sovereignty

Wilmot Proviso

Compromise of 1850 – reasons for, principle players, provisions, reactions

Fugitive Slave Act

Personal Liberty Laws

Election of 1852

Free Soil Party

George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South

Ostend Manifesto

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

William Walker/filibusters in Latin America

Matthew Perry & Japan

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Kansas-Nebraska Act – reasons, consequences

Know-Nothing Party

Nativism

origins of the Republican Party – supporters, leaders, ideas

Sumner-Brooks Affair

“Bleeding Kansas”

Dred Scott Case – origins, impact

Lecompton Constitution

Panic of 1857 – causes, impact

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Stephen Douglas

Freeport Doctrine

John Brown

Harper’s Ferry

Constitutional Union Party

Hinton Helper – The Impending Crisis

Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

The Election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln

Fort Sumter

Secession

Confederate States of America

Civil War – repressible or irrepressible conflict