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CHAPTER 13 – The Impending Crisis
1. LOOKING WESTWARD
a. Manifest Destiny
b. Americans in Texas
c. Tensions between the United States and Mexico
d. Oregon
e. Westward Migration
f. Life on the Trail
2. EXPANSION AND WAR
a. The Democrats and Expansion
b. The Southwest and California
c. The Mexican War
3. THE SECTIONAL DEBATE
a. Slavery and the Territories
b. The California Gold Rush
c. Rising Sectional Tensions
d. The Compromise of 1850
4. THE CRISES OF THE 1850S
a. The Uneasy Truce
b. “Young America”
c. Slavery, Railroads, and the West
d. The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy
e. “Bleeding Kansas”
f. The Free-Soil Ideology
g. The Pro-Slavery Argument
h. Buchanan and Depression
i. The Dred Scott Decision
j. Deadlock over Kansas
k. The Emergence of Lincoln
l. John Brown’s Raid
m. The Election of Lincoln
Essential Terms
The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...
- railroads
- Democrats
- Whigs
- Manifest Destiny
- slave-based agriculture
- Dred Scott case
- Republican Party
- Mexican-American War
- abolitionists
- secession
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Abraham Lincoln
- Union
- intensified sectionalism
- nullification
- Compromise of 1850
- Free-Soil
FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.
- John L. O'Sullivan
- Fugitive Slave Law
- The Alamo
- Ostend Manifesto
- Republic of Texas
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Oregon Trail
- Gadsden Purchase
- Election of 1844
- Bleeding Kansas
- James K. Polk
- John Brown
- debate on Oregon
- Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Slave Power Conspiracy
- Mexican Cession
- Roger B. Taney
- Wilmot Proviso
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Free Soil Party
- Harpers Ferry
- California Gold Rush
- Election of 1860
- Henry Clay
- Disunion
- Stephen A. Douglas
John Brown's Raid in American Memory
John Brown's Raid in American Memory
Fort Apache
Thirteen Days to Glory
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Moby Dick
The Alamo
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