THE THIRD PARTY PERIOD

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• THE THIRD PARTY PERIOD
• Reform and Sectional Conflict

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• MAIN THEMES
• How the position of crusade against slavery to
  other reform / social control movements
  influenced the support and opposition toward
  reform.
• How the ideas and means by which America and
  Americans moved west during this period.
• How the question of slave expansion deepened
  divisions between North and South.
• How the related issues of slavery and slave
  expansion reshaped the American political
  landscape.
• How the Republican Party rose to prominence so
  rapidly and the consequences of that rise to
  prominence.

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FOUR PARTY PERIODS   1796 - 1828 1ST
PARTY SYSTEM   FEDERALIST - ANTI-FEDERALIST
NATIONALIST - REPUBLICAN / DEMOCRAT HAMILTONIA
N - JEFFERSONIAN   1829 - 1856 2ND PARTY
SYSTEM   WHIG - DEMOCRACY ANTI-JACKSONIAN -
JACKSONIAN   1856 - 1964 3RD PARTY
SYSTEM   REPUBLICAN - DEMOCRAT   1864 -
4TH PARTY SYSTEM   DEMOCRAT -
REPUBLICAN
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• The Romantic Impulse
• The Transcendentalists
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• Henry David Thoreau
• An American Literature
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Walt Whitman
• Herman Melville

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American Utopian Communalism

• Religious
• Shakers
• The Mormons  

• Socialist
• New Harmony, Indiana
• Oneida, New York 

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New Light Calvinists

• Presbyterian Congregational
• Baptists
• Moralism 
• Charles Grandison Finney
• Lyman Beecher

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New Light Calvinists
                         
Charles G. Finney 1792-1875
Lyman Beecher (17---1863)
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Remaking Society

• Education  
• Horace Mann (1796-1859)

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Remaking Society

• The Rise of Feminism 
•   1848 Seneca Falls-Womens Rights Convention
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

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Bursting the Womans Spheres
Sarah (1792 - 1873) Angelina (1805 1879)
Grimke
Fanny Wright 1795-1852
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
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• Looking Westward Manifest Destiny  

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Looking Westward

•  Americans in Texas
• Legal Immigration
• Illegal Immigration
• Refusal to Assimilate
• War

Sam Houston (
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• Expansion and War  
• The Democrats and Expansion 
• Cuba
• Central America
• Oregon
• Texas
• California 

James K. Polk (Portrait Gallery)
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• The Mexican War

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The San Patricio Brigade
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• The Sectional Debate  
• Slavery and the Territories
• Wilmot Proviso
• Squatter Sovereignty
• Free-Soilers
• The California Gold Rush
• Rising Sectional Tensions
• California Statehood

Zackary Taylor (1848-1850)
Millard Filmore (1850)
 
Franklin Pierce (1852) James Buchanan (1856)
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• The Compromise of 1850 

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CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS

• 1857 - RAILROADS AND THE GADSDEN PURCHASE
• 1855 - THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
• 1855-1856 - BLEEDING KANSAS
• 1956 - THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS 

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• The Crises of the 1850s
• The Free-Soil Ideology vs.
• Abolitionist Ideology 

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ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLITICS
1840s - IRISH FAMINE 1848 -
FAILED REVOLUTIONS NATIVISM 1844 -
ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS (Philedephia)
1850s- NATIVIST RIOTS IN MIDWEST
KNOW NOTHINGISM 1837 - NATIVE AMERICAN
ASSOC. 1845 - NATIVE AMERICAN PARTY
1852 - AMERICAN PARTY
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The Crises of the 1850s

• John Brown  
• 1856 - War in Kansas
• 1859 - Harpers Ferry Raid
• 1859 - John Brown is hanged

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• The 1860 Lincoln  

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Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837).
Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842). Scott v. Sanford /
Dred Scott (1857).