"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln
Unit 6: Testing the New Nation
The Slavery Controversy
Vocabulary:
The Cotton Kingdom Economy Poor Whites and Free Blacks Plantation System Life Under Slavery The Abolitionist Crusade Wilmot Proviso 1846 |
Manifest Destiny and it's Legacy
Vocabulary:
Maine Annexation of Texas James K. Polk Mexican-American War 1846-1848 Battle of Chapultepec Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Bloody Island Massacre City on a Hill |
Renewing the Sectional Crisis
Vocabulary:
Popular Sovereignty Zachary Taylor and California The Gold Rush Underground Railroad The Compromise of 1850 The Fugitive Slave Law Kansas – Nebraska Act 1854 Bloody Kansas |