Period

5: 1844 - 1877

Manifest Destiny

Why 1844 - 1877 was chosen

as the dates for period 5









Mexican-American War
Nativist Movement










Abolitionists
Slavery as a Positive Good









Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act

Period 5: 1844 - 1877

Belief that it was the US right Beginning with Polks election

to expand from coast to coast. (US expansion and Manifest
Built on white racial
Destiny) through the end of
superiority and American
Reconstruction
cultural superiority, major
debates of the time period


Discrimination against
US defeated Mexico, acquired
immigrants (notably Irish and
the Mexican Cession, led to
Germans), heavily anti-
debates over slavery in this
Catholic, sought to limit power
newly acquired territory
of immigrants (Know-Nothing
(Wilmot Proviso)
Party)




Minority in the north; used
Argument used by John C.
fierce arguments (Garrisons
Calhoun and many in the
Liberator), helping slaves
South to justify slavery
escape (Underground RR), and
violence (Nat Turner, John
Brown at Harpers Ferry)


Reversed the MO
Compromise over Mexican
Compromise, instituted Pop Cession land, 5 parts: Pop Sov.
Sov. In Kansas and Nebraska; In Mexican Cession; Fugitive
led to conflict - Bleeding
Slave Law; abolition of slave
Kansas
trade in DC; California is a free

state; TX paid $

Period 5: 1844 - 1877

Dred Scott v. Sanford






Emancipation Proclamation






Radical Republicans






th
15 Amendment

Republican Party

th
13 amendment

14th Amendment

Waning

Period 5: 1844 - 1877

Emerged as a sectional party in Declared African Americans
the North and Midwest;
were NOT citizens; slaves were
sought to keep slavery from
property and could not be
expanding (free-soil) as seen taken away; Congress could
in Lincolns election in 1860
NOT regulate slavery in
territories


Abolished slavery; led to the
Changed the purpose of the
rise of sharecropping in the
Civil War; allowed African
south
Americans to fight in the Union

Army; Kept Europe from aiding

the South




Granted citizenship to all born

in the US (aimed at African
Sought to change racial and
Americans, overturned Dred
cultural attitudes of the south
Scott), provided equal

protection of the laws





To decrease, Reconstruction Provided suffrage for all adult
ended in part due to the
MALES; divided the Womens
Norths waning resolve
Rights Movement