Chapter 19 Outline-AP US History 							Mrs. Sanchez
Chapter 19 Reading due by Wednesday, November 29, 2000
Renewing the Sectional Struggle

I. The Popular Sovereignty of Panacea
A. Problems introduced over the new territory.
B. Election of 1848
C. Popular Sovereignties appeal
II. Political Triumphs of General Taylor
A. Taylor's campaign
B. Free Soil Party
C. How Taylor won.
III. "Californy Gold"
A. "Gold fever"
B. Effect on California
C. Crime
IV. Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad
A. 1850 relationships between North and South
B. Balance of States
C. Problem areas
1. California
2. New Mexico and Utah
3. Texas
4. District of Columbia
5. Runaway Slaves
D. Harriet Tubman
E. Problems of Fugitive Slave Law
F. Statistics regarding runaways
V. Twilight of Senatorial Giants
A. "immortal trio"
B. Clay
C. Stephen A. Douglas
D. Calhoun
1. "The South! The South! God knows what will become of her!"
E. Webster
1. Seventh of March Speech
2. reaction
3. importance
VI. Deadlock and Danger on Capitol Hill
A. William H. Seward
B. Attitudes
VII. Breaking the Congressional Logjam
A. Taylor's Death--Importance
B. Compromise of 1850
C. Reaction in the North 
D. Reaction in the South



VIII. Balancing the Compromise Scale
A. Better deal?
B. Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
C. Reaction North/South to the Law
D. Growth of Abolitionism
E. Why the War did not come in 1850
IX. Defeat and Doom for the Whigs
A. Why Democrats chose Franklin Pierce
B. Missed Whig opportunities
C. Campaign issues
D. Split in the Whig Party
E. Importance of the Election of 1852
X. President Pierce Expansionist
A. Southern interest in expansionism
B. Nicaragua
C. Trade with Asia
D. Matthew Perry
XI. Coveted Cuba:  Pearl of the Antilles
A. Why South Coveted Cuba
B. Efforts at gaining Cuba
C. Ostend Manifesto
D. Northern reaction
XII. Pacific Railroad Promoters and the Gadsden Purchase
A. Transportation Problems
B. Railroad Promoters
C. Gadsden Purchase
D. Importance of Gasden Purchase
XIII. Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Scheme
A. Douglas described
B. Kansas Nebraska Scheme
C. Conflict with Misssouri Compromise
D. Southern support
E. Reaction
F. Douglas's motives
XIV. Congress Legislates a Civil War
A. Kansas-Nebraska Act problems caused
B. Lasting impact
C. Birth of the Republican Party