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Listen to the lecture on Imperial Ambitions and Sectional Crises from 1842-1861 and submit your lecture notes by Friday, November 20 at midnight.

Also, read Chapter 13 - Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860 and Chapter 14 - Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s 

This a low-stakes assignment to help you prepare for the final exam

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Imperial Ambitions and sectional crises, 1842-1861

 

 

After listening to this lecture, you should be able to

Compare the experiences of different groups living in and migrating to the West

Explain how geographical expansion heightened sectional conflicts and how those conflicts shaped and were shaped by federal policies like the Compromise of 1850

Analyze the ways that the spread of anti-slavery sentiments, partisan politics, and federal court decisions intensified sectional divisions

Evaluate the importance of John Brown’s raid and the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in convincing southern states to secede from the Union

 

Dred Scott

American Histories

John C. Fremont

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Dred Scott

Claiming the West

 

 

Traveling the Overland Trail

 

 

The Gold Rush

 

 

A Crowded Land

 

 

Emigrant Party Headed to California in 1850:

This hand-colored engraving of a wagon train heading through a mountain pass shows the presence on many family groups and the need for many adults and children to walk and carry good for parts of the journey. It does NOT depict the many obstacles encountered in the journey.

Expansion and the Politics of Slavery

 

California and the Compromise of 1850

 

The Fugitive Slave Act Inspires Northern Protest

 

Pierce Encourages US Expansion

 

The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia:

Henry Brown escaped enslavement in Virginia in March 1849 by having himself shipped to Philadelphia in a crate. One of the most innovative means of gaining freedom, it required substantial assistance from supporters in Richmond and Philadelphia. The 1850 lithograph popularized Brown’s escape, furthering his career as a lecturer but making it hard for others to replicate his strategy.

Sectional Crises Intensify

 

Popularizing Antislavery Sentiment

 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act Stirs Dissent-The Republican Party

 

 

Kansas-Nebraska Territory, 1854

 

 

Bleeding Kansas and the Election of 1856

 

 

 

The Dred Scott Decision

 

Clarina Howard Nichols:

An abolitionist journalist and women’s rights advocate in Vermont, Clarina Howard Nichols joined the New England Emigrant Aid Society in 1854. The next year, she moved with her family to the Kansas Territory, where this photograph was taken. Nichols advocated women’s legal rights through lectures and editorials and was the only woman to participate in the Kansas Constitutional Convention of 1859.

From Sectional Crisis to Southern Secession

 

John Brown’s Raid

 

The Election of 1860

 

The Lower South Secedes

 

The Confederacy:

Seven states in the Lower South seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of American in February 1861. While the original Confederacy was too limited in population and resources to defend itself against the US government, its leaders hoped that other slave states would soon join them.

Conclusion: A Nation divided

You should now be able to:

Compare the experiences of different groups living in and migrating to the West

Explain how geographical expansion heightened sectional conflicts and how those conflicts shaped and were shaped by federal policies like the Compromise of 1850

Analyze the ways that the spread of anti-slavery sentiments, partisan politics, and federal court decisions intensified sectional divisions

Evaluate the importance of John Brown’s raid and the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in convincing southern states to secede from the Union