A. Compromise of 1850
B. Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin
C. Kansas-Nebraska Act and realignment of parties
1. Demise of the Whig Party
2. Emergence of the Republican Party
D. Dred Scott decision and Lecompton crisis
E. Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
F. John Brown's raid
G. The election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln
H. The secession crisis
14. Civil War
A. The Union
1. Mobilization and finance
2. Civil liberies
3. Election of 1864
B. The South
1. Confederate constitution
2. Mobilization and finance
3. States' rights and the Confederacy
C. Foreign affairs and diplomacy
D. Military strategy, campaigns, and battles
E. The aboliton of slavery
1. Confiscation Acts
2. Emancipation Proclamation
3. Freedman's Bureau
4. Thirteenth Amendment
F. Effects of war on society
1. Inflation and public debt
2. Role of women
3. Devastation of the South
4. Changing labor patterns
15. Reconstruction to 1877
A. Presidential plans: Lincoln and Johnson
B. Radical (congressional) plans
1. Civil rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
2. Military reconstruction
3. Impeachment of Johnson
4. African-American suffrage: the Fifteenth Amendment
C. Southern state governments: problems, achievements, weaknesses
D. Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction
16. New South and the Last West
A. Politics in the New South
1. The Redeemers
2. White and African Americans in the New South
3. Subordination of freed slaves: Jim Crow
B. Southern economy; colonial status of the South
1. Sharecropping
2. Industrial stirrings
C. Cattle kingdom
1. Open-range ranching
2. Day of the cowboy
D. Building the Western railroad
E. Subordination of American Indians: dispersal of tribes
F. Farming the plains; problems in agriculture
G. Mining bonanza
Section One:
1492-1816
Section Three:
1877-1914
Section Four:
1914-1945
Section Five:
1945-1974
Section Six:
1974-present
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