Expansion and Reaction,

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CHAPTER 12

• Expansion and Reaction,
• 1846 - 1854

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I. War with Mexico

• Men such as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
  become heroes in the 1840s conflict
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends conflict and
  greatly expands United States
• War impacts 1848 election, bringing Zachary
  Taylor to the presidency

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War with Mexico, 1846-1847
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Election of 1848
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II. Americans on the Move

• Steamships and railroads contribute to movement
  of Americans throughout continent
• Discovery of gold in California contributes to
  internal migration
• In another migration, Brigham Young leads Mormons
  to Utah
• Irish immigrants flee their countrys potato
  famine

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The Gold Rush California
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III. The Quest for Perfection

• Utopian communities such as Oneida Association
  become American experiments
• Seneca Falls Convention brings to prominence
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott,
  advocates for woman suffrage

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IV. Popular Culture and High Culture

• Mass printing appeals to wide audience as
  Americans demand diverse entertainment
• A few great American writers emerge
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Herman Melville
• Walt Whitman

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V. Slavery and a New Crisis in Politics

• Statehood for California precipitates another
  crisis
• Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin builds
  support for abolition

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Compromise of 1850
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VI. Politics in Chaos

• Know-Nothing party emerges to combat immigration
• Expansion fever engulfs nation
• Kansas-Nebraska Act ignites controversy over
  slavery and states rights, and leads to
  formation of new Republican party

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Kansas-Nebraska and Slavery
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