Battle Cry of Freedom

1.  The United States at Midcentury  - 41

            Industrialization, manufacturing,
             Water driven woodworking, metalworking mills
     The market economy, sustained economic growth 

     93% of patents came from the North
     95% literacy (north)  75% school enrollment   /  80% literacy (white southerners)  10% (slaves) 

     Urbanization in the North
     Transportation Revolution: canals, steamboats, trains
     Increased newspapers / the telegraph
     Finance, especially banks 

     The Second Great Awakening 
     Antebellum Reform Movements - abolitionism, women's rights, temperance,
             poverty, education, prison reform 
          Utopian communities

         Universal white male suffrage 
    Women workers / Cult of domesticity / familial love

    Free labor vs. slave labor ideologies 

   Westward expansion, Mormons, Indians

   Slavery

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2.   Mexico will Poison Us  -  31

              Missouri Compromise

3.   An Empire for Slavery  -  31

             Fugitive Slave Law
         Uncle Tom's Cabin
         Southern economy, James B. D. De bow  (economic diversification)
         Filibustering (104 - 116)
        
4.   Slavery, Rum, and Romanism  -  39

        Election of 1852
        Kansas-Nebraska Act  (121 - 130)
        Nativism  (131 - 144)


5.   The Crime Against Kansas  -  25

        Bleeding Kansas             


6.   Mudsills and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln  -  32

         The Dred Scott Decision
         The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
         The Panic of 1857 - 1858  (Tariffs, land grants, western railroads, college acts)  
         Tariffs
         Three land grant measures:  Homestead, railroad, college  
         The spitting of Stephen Douglas and the southern Democrats
         Slave labor ideology: "Mudsills" and George Fitzhugh's books
         Free labor ideology: Lincoln, Seward
         Hinton Rowan Helper and Roger Sherman
        

7.   The Revolution of 1860  -  32

         John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry  (p. 203 - 213)
        The Political Party Conventions
        The Presidential Campaign and the 1860 Election


8.   The Counterrevolution of 1861 - 42 

             The Confederate position on secession
         The Union position on secession 
             The Fort Sumter Attack                    
             
                     
9.   Facing Both Ways:  The Upper South's Dilemma  - 32

        The secession of Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina & Tennessee
        The four border states
        Western (West) Virginia
        East Tennessee