The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

310 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion Therefore the fact that slavery had no future in the Mexican cession was unimportant—in fact, ...

The Gold Rush 311 party was known as the Barnburners to call attention to their radicalism. (Supposedly they would burn down the ...

312 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion by violence to keep them from mining for gold. Even the local Californians (now American citiz ...

The Compromise of 1850 313 California should be brought directly into the Union as a free state, he argued. The rest of the Sout ...

heavy drinking and other forms of self-indulgence had taken their toll. The brilliant volubility and the thun- der were gone, an ...

Washington bank held more than $400,000 of these securities, entertained legislators and supplied lobbyists with large amounts o ...

316 Both movies show the tension between the hard-drinking Bowie and the prim young Travis; each seeks overall command of the ga ...

317 freedom/ and that is all we need to know.” Such words made sense to Wayne’s audience in 1960s America, then embroiled in a “ ...

318 Chapter 11 Westward Expansion Key Terms Compromise of 1850 Several laws that together sought to settle several outstanding i ...

Chapter Review 319 Research and Explore WatchtheVideo The Annexation of Texas, p. 300 Reinforce what you learned in this chapter ...

What do you do when someone curses at you? 320 How you respond may depend on where you’re from. In 2009 Malcolm Gladwell, author ...

12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways The Sections Go Their Own Ways CONTENTS ■In this painting by Andrew W. Melrose, Westward the S ...

322 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways benefited from the improvements in international transportation and trade. By the ...

The Economics of Slavery 323 than on small farms, but it was common enough every- where. (It occurred even among slaves in the N ...

324 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways farmers were hardworking, self-reliant, and moder- ately prosperous, quite unlike ...

The Sociology of Slavery 325 The majority of the slaves of both sexes were field hands who labored on the land from dawn to dusk ...

326 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways harmless emotional release, which it sometimes was and did. However, religious mee ...

Psychological Effects of Slavery 327 and control in urban settings. Individual slaves were successfully employed in southern man ...

328 In 1815 Dumont arranged for Isabella to marry another of his slaves. (Slave marriages were recognized by law in most norther ...

Yet Veseys were rare. Most slaves appeared at least resigned to their fate. Many seemed even to accept the whites’ evaluation of ...