American Civil War
By David Head
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David Head
DAVID HEAD is a lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida and the author of Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic (Georgia).
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American Civil War - David Head
Table of Contents
The Crisis of the Union, 1848–1856
The Specter of Secession, 1857–1860
The War Begins, 1861
The Fighting Deepens, 1862
The Turning Point, 1863
The Union’s Hard Road to Victory, 1864
The War at Sea & on the Rivers, 1861–1865
The War on the Home Front, 1861–1865
The Union Preserved, 1865
Presidential Reconstruction, 1863–1866
Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1877
Crisis of the Union, 1848–1856
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican- American War.
The United States gains vast lands in the west, including portions of the present-day states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado.
Each year during the war (1846–1848), Congressman David Wilmot (D-PA) offers the Wilmot Proviso to prohibit slavery in any lands won from Mexico.
Although never adopted, whether slavery will be allowed in the new territories emerges as a point of fierce debate.
The California Gold Rush begins, bringing thousands of settlers west.
Zachary Taylor, a Mexican War general and Whig from Louisiana, is elected president, defeating Democrat Lewis Cass and Free-Soil Party candidate Martin Van Buren, the former president.
The Free-Soil Party is dedicated to keeping slavery out of the western territories.
Taylor, a slave owner, attempts to stay neutral on slavery, for fear of offending the pro- and antislavery factions of his party.
Cass develops the doctrine of popular sovereignty in which the status of slavery in the new territories would be left up to the vote of the territories’ residents.
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The Compromise of 1850 attempts to resolve the question of slavery’s status in the territories. Congress agrees to:
Admit California, its population swelled by gold miners, to the Union as a free state.
Prohibit the slave trade (but not slavery) in the District of Columbia.
Enact a strong fugitive slave law.
Organize the Utah and New Mexico territories with popular sovereignty to decide the future of slavery.
Pay Texas $10 million to settle its debts and resolve its border dispute with New Mexico.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, part of the Compromiseof 1850, empowers federal marshals to catch runaway slaves and return them to their former owners.
Many northerners, though previously indifferent to slavery, turn against the measure’s use of federal agents and operation in northern cities.
To avoid arrest, thousands of northern free blacks flee to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
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Violence breaks out in Christiana, PA, as a slave owner, aided by deputy marshals, attempts to reclaim escaped slaves given sanctuary by a community