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HIST 207 Study Guide, Part IV

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29. Second Great Awakening and Social Reform

  • Second Great Awakening
    • Jacksonian Democracy
    • Finney’s New Measures
    • Perfectionism
  • Social Reform
    • Temperance
    • Abolitionism
    • Pacifism
    • Gender
  • Technology and Progress

 

30. Romanticism & Transcendentalism

  • Romanticism
    • Enlightenment Rationalism
    • Romantic Alternative
  • Transcendentalism
    • Definition
    • Emerson: Thinker
    • Thoreau: Doer
    • Fuller: Editor
    • Whitman: Poet
  • Pessimistic Reaction
    • Hawthorne
    • Melvile
    • Poe

 

31. Texas Revolution & Manifest Destiny

  • Republic of Texas
    • Why should anyone care about Texas?
    • Empresarios
    • Revolution
    • Annexation?
  • Manifest Destiny
    • O’Sullivan
    • Oregon Question
    • Texas Annexed

 

32. Mexican War

  • Causes
    • Texas Annexation (1845) & “All Mexico”
    • Border Dispute
  • Conquest
    • California (1846)
    • Mexico (1847)
  • Legacies
    • Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo (1848)
    • Renewing the Slavery Question

 

33. Immigration & Nativism

  • Immigration (Development)
    • Statistics
    • Push Factors
    • Pull Factors
    • Demographic Impact
  • Nativism (Reaction)
    • Anti-Catholicism
    • Philadelphia Bible Riots (1844)
    • National Politics
  • Nationhood
    • Settlers
    • Immigrants
    • Parenthood

 

34. Slavery

  • Geography
    • North vs. South
    • 1820 vs. 1860
  • Sociology
    • Black Slaves
    • White Southerners
  • Political Science
    • Black Slaves
    • Free Whites
  • Evaluation

 

35. Frederick Douglass

  • Slaves’ Fourth of July
  • Study Questions
  • Evaluation of Slavery Debates (cont’d)

 

36. Failure of Compromise

  • Compromise of 1850
    • Sectional Crisis Emerges
    • Compromise Attempted
    • Douglas’s “Popular Sovereignty”
  • Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
  • From Whigs to Know-Nothings and Republicans
    • Fugitive Slave Law (1850)
    • Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
    • Bleeding Kansas (1855-1856)

 

37. Sectional Crisis

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
    • Dred Scott’s Experience
    • The Somerset (1772) Precedent
    • Opinion of Chief Justice Taney
    • Pro-Choice or Government Coercion?
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
    • Lincoln, “A House Divided”
    • Douglas’s Freeport Doctrine
    • Botanical Implications
  • Review of Part IV
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