Note: The following outline has been updated for the Fall 2013 semester.
30. Romanticism & Transcendentalism
- Romanticism
- Enlightenment Rationalism
- Romantic Alternative
- Transcendentalism
- Definition
- Emerson: Thinker
- Thoreau: Doer
- Fuller: Editor
- Whitman: Poet
- Pessimistic Reaction
- Hawthorne
- Melvile
- Poe
31. Lincoln the Lawyer; The Texas Revolution
- Lincoln the Lawyer
- Education
- Lawyer
- Marriage
- Republic of Texas
- Why should anyone care about Texas?
- Empresarios
- Revolution
- Annexation?
32. Manifest Destiny in Texas and Mexico
- Manifest Destiny
- O’Sullivan
- Oregon Question
- Texas Annexed
- Causes of the Mexican War
- Texas Annexation (1845) & “All Mexico”
- Border Dispute
- Conquest
- California (1846)
- Mexico (1847)
- Legacies
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo (1848)
- Renewing the Slavery Question
33. Slavery
- Geography
- North vs. South
- 1820 vs. 1860
- Sociology
- Black Slaves
- White Southerners
- Political Science
- Black Slaves
- Free Whites
- Evaluation
34. 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)
35. 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
36. Exam on Part IV
37. Immigration & Nativism
- Immigration (Development)
- Statistics
- Push Factors
- Pull Factors
- Demographic Impact
- Nativism (Reaction)
- Anti-Catholicism
- Philadelphia Bible Riots (1844)
- National Politics
- Nationhood
- Settlers
- Immigrants
- Thanksgiving Holiday
