CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE COMING CRISIS, THE 1850s

Expansion and Growth

            Population-

            Economy-

            Supremacy of the North-

Cultural Life and Social Issue

            “American Renaissance”-

Political Parties and Slavery

            Sectional appeal –

States' Rights and Slavery

            Calhoun and Nullification-

Northern Fears of "The Slave Power”

            Webster-

            James Birney-

Henry Clay-

Two Communities, Two Perspectives

            Northern view of South-

            Southern view of North-

THE COMPROMISE OF 1850

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The Fugitive Slave Act-

The Election of 1852-

“Young America”

            William Walker-

            Ostend Manifesto-

            Commodore Perry-

The Kansas-Nebraska Act-

“Bleeding Kansas”-

The Politics of Nativism

            Know – Nothings-

The Republican Party and the Election of 1856

Sumner / Brooks-

Dred Scott v. Sandford

            Ruling