ANTEBELLUM CRISIS

Women’s Rights Seneca Falls Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Lucretia Mott Mary Lyons and education

King Cotton

Slavery and abolition Free blacks in the South are the “3rd” race Immediate vs. Gradual Abolition

"Hold your light, Brudder Robert,-Hold your light,Hold your light on Canaan's shore.

"What make ole Satan for follow me so?Satan ain't got notin' for do wid me.Hold your light,Hold your light,Hold your light on Canaan's shore."

Slave Resistance Wade in the Water Swing Low Sweet Chariot

John Tyler A Democrat in

Whig’s Clothing

His Accidency

Issue with England Aroostook War The Caroline Webster

Ashburton Treaty

Annexation of Texas- 1845

Manifest Destiny

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.- Horace Greeley

John L. O’SullivanThe far-reaching, the boundless future will be the era of

American greatness. In its magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined

to manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles; to establish on earth the noblest temple

ever dedicated to the worship of the Most High -- the Sacred and the True. Its floor shall be a hemisphere -- its roof the firmament of the star-studded heavens, and its congregation an Union of many Republics,

comprising hundreds of happy millions, calling, owning no man master, but governed by God's natural and moral law of equality, the law of brotherhood -- of

"peace and good will amongst men.". . .

Oregon Fever 54, 40 or Fight!

Young Hickory’s Goals Reestablish the Independent

Treasury System Reduce Tariffs Acquire some or all of Oregon

Country. Acquire California and New Mexico

49ers!

Slidell Mission

Zachary Taylor in Corpus Christi

Henry David Thoreau- On Civil Disoedience

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to

the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should

be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to

assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Mexican American War

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Wilmot Proviso