Class Schedule
Week 4 (February 10-16)
Tuesday, February 12:
Tentative Proposal for Final Paper due
Topics of Discussion:
Southern Expansionism
(Student-led Discussion)
The Rise of Nativism
Readings:
Ostend
Manifesto (October 18, 1854)
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 79-94
Thursday, February 14
Topics of Discussion:
Repealing the Missouri
Compromise: The Kansas-Nebraska Act (Student-led
Discussion)
Bleeding Kansas (Student-led
Discussion)
Readings:
Abraham
Lincoln on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (October 16, 1854)
Charles
Sumner,"Crime Against Kansas" Speech (May 19-20, 1856)
Preston
Brooks Defends His Assault on Charles Sumner (July 14, 1856)
Preston
Brooks Appeals to His Constituents in the South Carolinian (July 18,
1856)
Press
Reaction to Sumner's Beating (1856)
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 95-108
Food
for Thought for Week 4
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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