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		Chapter 15 - The Crisis of Union
	Images and Maps Map of the Presidential Election of 1848 Charts: Presidential Election of 1848 Charts: Presidential Election of 1856 Map of the Presidential Election of 1856 California Gold Rush Country Caricature of the 1856 Democratic platform Map: History of the Legal Status of Slavery in the United States Map: Free States and Slave States before the Civil War Map: Compromise of 1850 Treasures of Congress: Struggles Over Slavery, The Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multimedia Archive Uncle Tom's Cabin Images Uncle Tom's Cabin and Slavery Map: Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War The Caning of Senator Sumner Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan John C. Calhoun The Presidential Campaign of 1856 Map: Election of 1856 The Dred Scott Decision "Recollections of the John Brown Raid by a Virginian Who Witnessed the Fight," by Alexander Boteler (This site contains numerous images.) Chronology of the Secession Crisis   Primary Sources The Wilmot Proviso Nineteenth-Century Documents Project 1848 Platform: Free Soil Party Women in the Gold Rush John Calhoun: Political Theory Daniel Webster: Speech to the United States Senate, March 7, 1850 "The Clay Compromise Measures," by John C. Calhoun, March 4, 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850 The Ostend Manifesto Uncle Tom's Cabin An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas Harper's new monthly magazine, "Commodore Perry's Expedition To Japan" Bleeding Kansas Gallery Charles Sumner, "On the Crime Against Kansas" Preston S. Brooks, "On the Sumner Assault" "Sumner and Brooks," Journal [American] (24 May 1856) Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error v. John F. A. Sandford, December Term, 1856 The Dred Scott Case William Henry Seward, "On the Irrepressible Conflict" (Delivered at Rochester, NY, October 25, 1858) The Lincoln-Douglas Debates John Brown and the Valley of the Shadow John Brown's Address to the Court James Russell Lowell, "The Election in November," October 1860 Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, "For your own eye only" Secession Era Editorials Project Texas in the Secession Crisis and the Civil War (1861-1865)   Secondary Sources Mothers in Uncle Tom's America James Buchanan: The Woeful President Harper's Weekly: The Presidential Election of 1860 (This site also includes numerous images and primary sources.)   - back to the eReserves Index

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