E42 ANY: Précisions "Manifest Destiny" + Calendrier

Parties du livre à travailler pour le cours « Manifest Destiny » (édition 2007) pour le 5/03

CH10 Nationalism : sous-partie : « Postwar nationalism »
Adams-Onis Treaty, 1820 Compromise

C11 Reform and Politics in the Age of Jackson : sous-partie : “Manifest Destiny and expansionism”
Texas, Oregon, Annexation of Texas

Et pour vous avancer: début du CH 14 Slavery and America’s Future: sous-parties “The War with Mexico and Its Consequences” et “1850: Compromise or Armistice”

Ci-dessous, une chronologie indicative pour vous aider (éléments indispensables à connaître) :

Territorial expansion and sectional strife

1810-1819 5 new states admitted to the Union
1820 Missouri Compromise: Missouri admitted as a slave state/Maine as a free state; slavery restricted to the area below 36° 30’ of latitude (within Louisiana territory)
By 1840 half of the North American continent had been settled
1846-1848 Mexican War;
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: the Rio Grande becomes Texas boundary, California and New Mexico are bought for 15 million dollars
This opened a period a sectional strife over the extension of slavery in the new territories
The question of slavery was the only issue debated in Congress for the whole summer of 1848
1849 slavery had become a burning issue
Gold Rush to California (100,000 end of 1849)
15 slave states/ 15 free states
1850 Compromise: California admitted as a free state, other territories (New Mexico and Utah) : left to the settlers to decide, abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, new and tougher fugitive slave Act : suspected fugitives could be arrested by slave owners without a warrant, no trial by jury for fugitives, heavy penalties for those helping slaves.
North : « personal liberties laws » (legal protection to runaways), mob agitation
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom Cabin
1854 Kansas –Nebraska Act (Douglas): Kansas: slavery/Nebraska: popular sovereignty, though both North of the 1820 Compromise line
angered the North, emergence of the Republican party (from the « anti-Nebraska » group)
1856: Bleeding Kansas: violence between opposing factions (ultimately admitted as a free state in 1861)
1857 economic depression sharpened sectional differences
1857 Dred Scott decision (1820 Compromise deemed unconstitutional, blacks no right to sue, regarded as private property)
1858 Lincoln –Douglas debates
1859 John Brown’s raid on Harper Ferry
1860 Lincoln (Rep.) elected president
1st Dec, 1860 South Carolina first state to secede
6 other states had seceded by February 1861, delegates met at Montgomery, drafted a Constitution and elected a president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis.
April 1861 beginning of the Civil War (May 1865).
Sept. 1862 / 1rst Jan 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
Nov. 1863 Gettysburg Address
April 1865 Lincoln shot to death


Pour le 12/03: ABOLITIONISM (CH 11)
Pour le 19/03: SLAVERY (CH 13)