HIS 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: California Republic, Manifest Destiny, Party System
11 Jun 2018
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The Bear Flag Revolt 1846
Rebellion in California against Mexican government
Rebels led by captain John C. Fremont:
-believed he could act under manifest density
-Mexican/American war: captured Sonoma
-Brief period f the bear flag republic
Paved the way for US takeover
Rush to the West
-1849 California Gold ruse: gold mania
-The forty niners: boom and ghost towns and the melting pot boiling over
The Mexican American War, 1846-1848
-Us Annexed Texas in 1845
-dispute over Texas border
-Us offered to buy California
-Mr. Polk's war began in 1846
-southern Whigs: pro war
-northern Whigs: anti war
-generals Taylor and Scott
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
-ended the Mexican American war
-Us received the southwest
-Texas border set at the Rio Grande
-promise to protect property and civil rights of Mexicans
US accomplishes manifest destiny
Victims of Violent Conspiracy
Violence of national politics
-bleeding Kansas
-john brown
-Charles Sumner
Conspiracies continued…
Raid on harper's ferry
Panic of 1857 & slavery
Political Realignment
Death of 2nd party system: failure of Whigs
: national to geographical
The new republican party: contain slavery
: limit spread into the west
Increasing division: republicans = north
: democrats = souths
The New Regine
Emergence of Lincoln: Lincoln-Douglas debates
:issue of slavery
-D accused of extending slavery
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