APUSH READINGS
(Topics/Questions)
Pg. 6 Growth US at mid-city = growth + negative consequences for some
· Sectional conflict
· Second great awakening, pt.2
Pg. 11 Economic growth
· Transportation, roads, steamboats and macadamized roads
· Chicago and NY trading centers
· Telegraph
Pg. 13 Life in pre-industrialization America
· Industrial development
· American interchangeable parts
Pg. 16-17Ballooned frame houses= machines
Pg. 19-20 Education- Horace Mann
· “You cannot expect to develop your resources without a general system of popular education; it is the lever to all permanent improvement.”
· “Intelligent laborers can add much more to the capital employed in a business than there who are ignorant.”
Pg. 23 Jeffersonian vision problems with wager earners and independence
Pg. 24 Critique of Capitalism (p.24) (skip pages 24-30 if you want)
· Wage slavery
Pg. 29 Anti-bank sentiment
Pg. 31 Butternut region
Pg. 32 Immigration and Irish
Pg. 33-36 Women (lots of stuff)
Pg. 37 Slavery as an institution
Pg. 38 Abolition movement- Theodore Weld
Pg. 39 Seward’s view on Slavery
· Statue of cotton- ¾ world supply
Pg. 40 The differences between North and South, especially the types of people
Pg. 41 “…they are rival hostile people.”
Pg. 42 “Go West” Topic of the West
Pg. 45-46 Indian Removal
Ch2 “Mexico Will Poison Us”
Pg. 47 Polk presided over the acquisition of more territory than any other president in American History
· Whigs opposed the war
· Lincoln + Mexican War
· John L. O’Sullivan
Pg. 49 Bear Flag Republic + John C. Fremont
Pg. 50 Stephan Watts Kearny
· Nicholas Trist + Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Pg. 51 Emerson: “The United States will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic which brings him down in turn, Mexico will poison us.”
Pg. 51 Slave Power Conspiracy= To expand slavery in America
Pg. 52 Wilmot Proviso
Pg. 53 Northern Dems
Pg. 54 15 slave States and 15 Free States 1847
Pg. 55 Free Soilers Question: What are their beliefs?
Pg. 56 “Southern View” “Slavery is a positive good” not a necessary evil
Pg. 57-58 Southern Reaction to Wilmot Proviso J.C. Calhoun
Pg. 58 Concept of Popular Sovereignty
Pg. 59 “Old Rough and Ready” and “Old Fuss and Feathers” Southern Whigs support Taylor
Pg. 60-64 Taylor was slave owner
Whig Party begins to spilt into two
Anti-Slavery + Pro-Slavery (will eventually evolve into Republicans)
Liberty Party was another early anti-slavery party
Part II
Pg. 64) Gold Rush- Sutter's Mill,
80,000, 49Ers went to CA
Congress, still fighting over extension of Slavery
California as well
Pg. 66) California wants to be a state.
Pg. 68) Lots of problems in House over political leadership
Pg. 69) The South wanted a compromise or threats to Dis-Union
Pg. 70) Compromise of 1850
The Last Big One with the Triumvirate
Pg. 71) Daniel Webster-
- "I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a northern man, but as an American. I speak today for the preservation of the union. Hope me for my cause...."
Pg. 72) - Calhoun's Words and Seward’s Words
Pg. 75) Steven Douglas
Pg. 74) Taylor dies
M Fillmore takes over N. Mex and CA- are applying for statehood.
Pg. 75) Omnibus Bill dies
Stephen Douglas- Comes on scene and gets bills passed separately- CA, Fugitive Slave Law
Chapter 3 “An Empire for Slavery”
Pg. 78-80) Fugitive Slave Law
- Slave catcher abuses
- Personal Liberty Laws- Try to protect runaway slaves
- Not so many slaves were running away. 100's a year.
Pg. 81-86) Resistance to Fugitive Slave Act 1850, in North
Pg. 86) Fire Eater Response to Fugitive Slave Act
Pg. 87) Georgia Platform basically advocating Secession
Pg. 88-91) Uncle's Tom Cabin
- 300,000 couple's - 1852
- 2 Million in 10 years, Jesus figured
Pg. 91 - 96) Stats (skim this, Then at page 96 Skip to page 102)
Southern Economic Development
70% export cotton
5% manufactured in the south
25% to the North
Shows limited Economic Situation in the South
Slavery limited the economic development
Pg. 102 Skim issue of repealing the ban of international slave trade
Pg. 103-107 Part III Cuba Discussion, Filibuster, 107
Skim to page 116, the read about the Ostend manifesto,
William Walker is an interesting story of a filibuster
Ch. 4 Slavery Run Romanism Pg. 117 -
Skip to Page 121,
Read 121-128
Kansas Nebraska Act
Pg. 127, Lincoln of Kansas Nebraska Act.
Slavery as a Cancer
Pg. 128 Moral argument (Lincoln)
Pg. 129 Effects of Kansas Nebraska Act on Northern Dems, Lost tons of support, seats in Legislature and House
Pg. 130 Part III Know Nothing Party
