#1: How did the Election of 1840 potentially cause a political crisis in the country? Were the Whigs correct in their behavior toward Tyler?

• The Accession of “Tyler Too”

• A President Without a Party

– Fiscal Bank

– Protective Tariff *

#2: Did rivalry with Britain affect the American decision to annex Texas, the Oregon dispute, and other controversies of the 1840’s?

• War of Words with Britain

• Manipulating the Maine Maps

• The Lone Star of Texas

• Oregon Fever *

#3: Most Americans believed that expansion across North America was their destiny. Was expansion inevitable, did Polk really receive a mandate for expansion in the election of 1844?

• A Mandate for Manifest Destiny?

• Polk the Purposeful

• Misunderstandings with Mexico

• American Blood on American Soil

• The Mastering of Mexico

• Profit and Loss in Mexico *

#4: How was the Manifest Destiny of the 1840’s related to the sectional conflict over slavery? Why was the Wilmot Proviso so divisive and explosive? Was it intended to reignite sectional controversy or actually to defuse it? *