Reading Assignments--Week Two:
 
Week Two: McPherson, Chapters, 3-4 
 
 

Colonization
William Lloyd Garrison
Liberty Party
Proslavery Argument
Texas fever
Manifest destiny
John Slidell
Mr. Polk’s War
The Wilmot Proviso
John C. Calhoun
Popular sovereignty
The Great Pacifier
“the Armistice of 1850”

  

 
Study Questions:
 
How did the slavery debate impact national politics?
What were the elements of the Compromise of 1850, and how did these elements impact the North and South?