AP US History Period 5 1844 to 1870

AP US History Period 5 1844-1870
Table of Contents
Manifest Destiny & Sectional Tensions
 Manifest Destiny
 Texas Revolution
 Second Party System
 Democrats and Whigs
 Minor Partys
 Anti-Masonic Party
 Liberty Party
 Free Soil Party
 Tancy Court
 Elections of 1840, 1848, & 1848
 Sectionalist Presidents
 William Henry Harrison (W) (1841)
 John Tyler (W) (1841-1845)
 James K. Polk (D) (1845-1849)
 Zachary Taylor (W) (1849-1850)
 Millard Fillmore (W) (1850-1853)
 Mexican American War (1846-1848)
 California Gold Rush
The Road to Civil War
 Mexican American War (1846-1848)
 Compromise of 1850
 Fugitive Slave Law
 The Underground Railroad
 Slavery and Literature
 Anti-Slavery Arguments
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 Impending Crisis of the South
 Pro-Slavery Arguments
 Sociology for the south, or the failure of free society (1854) & Cannibals All!
(1857) – George Fitzhuge
 Election of 1852
 Franklin Pierce (1853 – 1857)
 Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
 Bleeding Kansas (1854-1861)
 Brooks-Sumner Incident (May 22, 1856)
 The Formation of the Republican Party
 Scoot V. Sandford (1857) (Dred Scott Case)
 Election of 1856
 James Buchanan
 John Brown and Harpers Ferry (1859)
 Election of Lincoln (Election of 1860)

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,Secession & The Outbreak of the Civil War

 Secession in the South
 What is the “United States”?
 Formation of the CSA
 The Deep South Secedes
 Northern & Southern Advantages
 Winfield Scotts Anaconda Plan
 Political Leadership during the Civil War
 The Diplomatic Struggle
 Fighting “Total War”
 Battle of the Ironclads (1862)
 Mobilizing the Home Fronts
 The Coming of Emancipation
 The Emancipation Proclamation
 The Tide Turns in 1863
 Fight to the Finish
 Election of 1864
 The End of the War
 The Death of Lincoln
 Effect of the War
Reconstruction and the New South
 Reconstruction Phases
 Phase 1 – Lincoln’s Plan
 Phase 2 = Andrew Johnson’s Plan
 Phase 3 – Radical Republican Plan
 Freedmen’s Bureau
 Andrew Johnson (D) (1865 – 1869)
 The Radical Republicans
 Freedmen in the South
 Northern Influence on the South
 White Southern Resistance
 Election of 1868
 Ulysses S. Grant (R) (1869 – 1877)
 Sharecropping
 “Election of 1876
 Compromise of 1877




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, Manifest Destiny & Sectional Tensions
Manifest Destiny
“Away, away with these cobweb tissues of the rights of discovery, exploration, settlement, … [The
American claim] is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of
the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of
liberty…”

- John L. Sullivan, Democratic Review, 1845

Texas Revolution
American Settlement
 Fueled by Manifest Destiny
 Encouraged by the Mexican Government
 Speak Spanish
 Convert to Catholicism
 Get rid of your Slaves.
 Pay your taxes.

Texas Revolution (1836)
 Santa Anna’s Policies
 The Alamo (Feb-Mar 1836)
 Battle of San Jacinto (Apr 21, 1836)

Second Party System (1828-1854)
Democrats & Whigs
DEMOCRATS WHIGS
 STATES RIGHTS  AMERICAN SYSTEM
 LIMITED GOVERNMENT  STRONG FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 LAISSEZ-FAIRE  MIXED ON SLAVERY
 EXPANSIONISM  SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES
 PRO-SLAVERY  NEW ENGLAND
 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY  UPPER AND MIDLE CLASS
 SOUTH AND WEST PROFESSIONALS, EVANGELICAL
 YOEMAN FARMERS, WORKING CLASS PROTESTANTS
SOUTHERN PLANTER, IMMIGRANTS
Minor Partys
Anti-Masonic Party
 Issue party concerned about freemasons.
 Promoted economic nationalism and social conservatism.

Liberty Party
 Abolitionist party

Free Soil Party
 Prevent expansion of slavery

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