| A. | Background to annexation | ||
| 1. | Manifest destiny | ||
| 2. | Texas Revolution | ||
| B. | President Tyler's demand for Texas | ||
| 1. | Senate's rejection of annexation | ||
| 2. | Polk and Democratic platform for annexation | ||
| a. | Polk's victory seen as mandate | ||
| b. | Sectional motives | ||
| C. | Tyler's lame-duck move for annexation | ||
| 1. | Joint resolution for annexation | ||
| a. | Simple majority required | ||
| b. | Circumvent northern opposition | ||
| 2. | Texas annexed in March 1845 | ||
| A. | War with Mexico | ||
| 1. | Northeastern antiwar sentiment | ||
| a. | Whig opposition to war | ||
| b. | War's tangible effects | ||
| 2. | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ||
| a. | Annexation of California and New Mexico | ||
| b. | All Mexico movement | ||
| B. | Wilmot Proviso | ||
| 1. | Stance of northeastern political interests | ||
| 2. | Argument of the proviso | ||
| a. | Forbids slavery in any territory ceded by Mexico | ||
| b. | Support for homesteaders | ||
| 3. | Bitter congressional fight over proviso | ||
| a. | Passes House of Representatives three times | ||
| b. | Fails in Senate | ||
| c. | Sectional ramifications | ||
| C. | California's application for statehood | ||
| 1. | 1849 gold rush and "free" California | ||
| 2. | Southern opposition to California | ||
| A. | Background to the compromise | ||
| 1. | War with Mexico | ||
| a. | Wilmot Proviso | ||
| b. | Southern concerns | ||
| 2. | Annexation of California and New Mexico | ||
| a. | California applies as a "free state" | ||
| b. | Southern concerns | ||
| B. | Henry Clay and the "Omnibus Bill" | ||
| 1. | California as free state; New Mexico with no restrictions on slavery | ||
| 2. | Fugitive Slave Act | ||
| 3. | End of slave trade in Washington, DC | ||
| 4. | Rejection of Omnibus Bill | ||
| a. | Sectional vote | ||
| b. | Southern states and Mississippi convention | ||
| C. | Stephen Douglas and passage of compromise | ||
| 1. | Omnibus Bill divided into several separate bills | ||
| 2. | Compromise measures are passed; vote is still sectional | ||
| D. | Compromise as temporary success | ||
| 1. | No real solution to slavery and western territories | ||
| 2. | Permanent solution still sought | ||
| A. | Manifest Destiny | ||
| 1. | Early expansion of United States | ||
| a. | Louisiana Purchase | ||
| b. | Population growth | ||
| 2. | God's Plan | ||
| a. | Impact on Indian population | ||
| b. | Extension of slavery | ||
| B. | "Go West Young Man" | ||
| 1. | Oregon | ||
| a. | The Oregon trail | ||
| b. | "Fifty-four forty or fight" | ||
| c. | Oregon Treaty of 1846 | ||
| 2. | Migrations | ||
| a. | Mormons to Utah | ||
| b. | California gold rush | ||
| 3. | Texas | ||
| a. | Anglo settlement | ||
| b. | Revolution | ||
| c. | Republic of Texas | ||
| d. | Annexation | ||
| C. | Mexican War | ||
| 1. | Disputes with Mexico | ||
| a. | Annexation of Texas | ||
| b. | Border dispute | ||
| 2. | Mr. Polk's War | ||
| a. | Military victory | ||
| b. | Territorial acquisitions | ||