Growth and Conflict

1. Growth and Conflict

2. Conflicts over Texas, Maine, and Oregon • Texas • Revolt and independence • Annexation denied • Boundary dispute in Maine • Boundary dispute in Oregon

3. Conflicts over Texas, Maine, and Oregon • Election of 1844 • James K. Polk • Annexing Texas and dividing Oregon

4. War with Mexico • Immediate causes of the war • Military campaigns • Consequences of the war • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Wilmot Proviso • Prelude to civil war?

5. Manifest Destiny to the South • Ostend Manifesto • Walker Expedition • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1850 • Gadsden Purchase

6. Slavery and the Mexican Cession • Background • Missouri Compromise, 1820 • Compromise of 1850 • Issue • Provisions

7. Further Growth of Antislavery Feeling in the North • Fugitive Slave Law, 1850 • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Horace Greeley

8. Further Growth of Antislavery Feeling in the North • Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 • Provisions • Douglas’ motives • “Bleeding Kansas”

9. Further Growth of Antislavery Feeling in the North • Formation of the Republican Party, 1854 • Presidential election of 1856 President James Buchanan

10. Further Growth of Antislavery Feeling in the North • Dred Scott case • Issue • Supreme Court decision, 1857

11. Further Growth of Antislavery Feeling in the North • Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 • John Brown’s raid, 1859

12. The Union Dissolves • Presidential Election of 1860 • Issues and candidates • Results • The South secedes • Southern reaction to the election • Confederate States of America

13. The Union Dissolves • The Federal Government and the Challenge of Secession • Buchanan’s inaction • Lincoln takes office • Other Causes of the Civil War • Economic differences • Nature of the federal union • Control of the central government • Differences in civilization • Fanaticism

14. The Civil War: The Home Front • Recruiting for military service • In the South • In the North • Financing the War • In the South • In the North

15. The Civil War: The Home Front • Politics in the South • Politics in the North • Expansion of presidential powers • Peace Democrats (Copperheads) • Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 • Election of 1864 • Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address • Lincoln’s assassination

16. Congressional Reconstruction • Civil Rights Act of 1866 • Freedmen’s Bureau Act of 1866 • 14th Amendment • First Reconstruction Act, 1867

17. Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson • Tenure of Office Act, 1867 • Failure of the Impeachment • Significance

18. Lasting Results of the Civil War and Reconstruction • Abolition of slavery and constitutional guarantee of African-Americans’ rights • Discrimination against African-Americans in the South • Beginnings of education for African-Americans in the South "This Is A White Man's Government,"Harper's Weekly, September 5, 1868

19. Lasting Results of the Civil War and Reconstruction • Supremacy of the federal government • Expansion of presidential powers in wartime • Changes in the South’s economy

20. Republicans Dominate the Post-Civil War Period, 1869-1889 • Economic developments • Social developments • Political developments • Major parties and their supporters • Issues

21. Grant Administration, 1869-1877 (Republican) • Election of 1868 • Grant and the presidency • Election of 1872 • Corruption: A period of national disgrace • Important domestic legislation • Significant foreign affairs: The Alabama claims

22. Hayes Administration, 1877-1881 (Republican) • Election of 1876 • Candidates and issues • Disputed electoral vote • End of Reconstruction • Beginnings of civil service reform • Hayes’ anti-labor acts • Silver coinage

23. Garfield-Arthur Administration, 1881-1885 (Republican) • Election of 1880 • Assassination of Garfield, 1881 • Arthur as President, 1881-1885 • The office makes the person • Important domestic legislation

24. First Cleveland Administration, 1885-1889 (Democrat) • Election of 1884 • Cleveland and civil service reform • Restored prestige of the presidential office • Important domestic legislation