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1821. 1860. THE THIRD PARTY PERIOD Reform and Sectional Conflict. MAIN THEMES How the position of crusade against slavery to other reform / social control movements influenced the support and opposition toward reform.
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1821 1860 THE THIRD PARTY PERIOD Reform and Sectional Conflict
MAIN THEMES • How the position of crusade against slavery to other reform / social control movements influenced the support and opposition toward reform. • How the ideas and means by which America and Americans moved west during this period. • How the question of slave expansion deepened divisions between North and South. • How the related issues of slavery and slave expansion reshaped the American political landscape. • How the Republican Party rose to prominence so rapidly and the consequences of that rise to prominence.
FOUR PARTY PERIODS 1796 - 1828 1ST PARTY SYSTEM FEDERALIST - ANTI-FEDERALIST NATIONALIST - REPUBLICAN / DEMOCRAT HAMILTONIAN - JEFFERSONIAN 1829 - 1856 2ND PARTY SYSTEM WHIG - DEMOCRACY ANTI-JACKSONIAN - JACKSONIAN 1856 - 1964 3RD PARTY SYSTEM REPUBLICAN - DEMOCRAT 1864 - 4TH PARTY SYSTEM DEMOCRAT - REPUBLICAN
The Romantic Impulse • The Transcendentalists • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Henry David Thoreau • An American Literature • James Fenimore Cooper • Walt Whitman • Herman Melville
American Utopian Communalism • Socialist • New Harmony, Indiana • Oneida, New York • Religious • Shakers • The Mormons
New Light Calvinists • Presbyterian & Congregational • Baptists • Moralism • Charles Grandison Finney • Lyman Beecher
New Light Calvinists Charles G. Finney 1792-1875 Lyman Beecher (17---1863)
Remaking Society • Education • Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Remaking Society • The Rise of Feminism • 1848 Seneca Falls-Women’s Rights Convention • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Bursting the Woman’s Spheres Sarah (1792 - 1873) & Angelina (1805 – 1879) Grimke Fanny Wright 1795-1852 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Looking Westward • Americans in Texas • Legal Immigration • Illegal Immigration • Refusal to Assimilate • War Sam Houston (
Expansion and War • The Democrats and Expansion • Cuba • Central America • Oregon • Texas • California James K. Polk (Portrait Gallery)
The Sectional Debate • Slavery and the Territories • Wilmot Proviso • Squatter Sovereignty • Free-Soilers • The California Gold Rush • Rising Sectional Tensions • California Statehood Zackary Taylor (1848-1850) Millard Filmore (1850) Franklin Pierce (1852) James Buchanan (1856)
CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS 1857 - RAILROADS AND THE GADSDEN PURCHASE 1855 - THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT 1855-1856 - BLEEDING KANSAS 1956 - THE “CRIME AGAINST KANSAS”
The Crises of the 1850s • The Free-Soil Ideology vs. • Abolitionist Ideology
ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLITICS 1840s - IRISH FAMINE 1848 - FAILED REVOLUTIONS NATIVISM 1844 - ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS (Philedephia) 1850s- NATIVIST RIOTS IN MIDWEST KNOW NOTHINGISM 1837 - NATIVE AMERICAN ASSOC. 1845 - NATIVE AMERICAN PARTY 1852 - AMERICAN PARTY
The Crises of the 1850s John Brown 1856 - War in Kansas 1859 - Harpers Ferry Raid 1859 - John Brown is hanged
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837). Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842). Scott v. Sanford / Dred Scott (1857).