Unit 2: A Failure to Communicate

Section 1: Sectionalism Politicized

I. Inevitability of the Civil War? II. Wedges of Separation

a) Southerners1) Thomas Ketell “Southern Wealth, Northern Profits”

b) Northerners c) Sectional Blinders

III. Decline of Two Party System

III. The Impact of Western Expansion a) Manifest Destinyb) Mexican Warc) Wilmot Proviso

d). Nashville Convention

1) John Calhoun

e) Free/Slave State Balance

IV. The Compromise of 1850a) 31st Congress & Zachary Taylor b) The Argument over Slavery in the Territories

1) David Wilmot2) John C. Calhoun3) Stephen Douglas “POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY” 4) Extend the Missouri Compromise

c) Resolution d) Crisis Averted?

V. Pierce, Douglas and the Kansas Nebraska Act

a) Franklin Pierce b) Ostend Manifesto c) Stephen Douglas

d) Kansas-Nebraska Act

VI) New Parties a) Know Nothingsb) Republican Party

IV. The Settlement of Kansasa) North v. Southern View b) Eli Thayer “New England Emigrant Aid Society c) Shawnee Legislator

1) David Atchison

d) Topeka Legislator e) Brooks-Sumner Affair

f) Pottawatomie Massacre g) Significance of Brooks-Pottawatomie

Section 2: A House Dividing

I. Radical Expressions of Sectional Unitya) JDB De Bowb) Committee of Public Safety

II. Northern UnityIII. Dred Scott v. Sanford

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