1. "Manifest Destiny"
   1. main readings
      1. DAH: "Manifest Destiny"  (3 pages)
      2. United States at War: "Texas Revolution"  (1 page)
      3. United States at War: "Battle of the Alamo"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "Davy Crockett"  (2 pages)
      5. American History: "James K. Polk"  (2 pages)
      6. American History: "Antonio López de Santa Anna"  (2 pages)
      7. American History: "Mexican-American War"  (2 pages)
      8. American History: "Wilmot Proviso (1846)"  (1 page)
      9. American History: "Mormon Church"  (1 page)
      10. DAH: "Forty-Niners"  (1 page)
   2. suggested readings
      1. United States at War: "Mexican-American War"

         access materials relating to the war by clicking on "Wars" at the top-left, and then "Mexican-American War"

      2. American History: "Sam Houston"  (2 pages)
      3. American History: "Jim Bowie"  (2 pages)
      4. EBO: "Austin, Stephen"  (1 page)
      5. DAH: "Alamo, Siege of the"  (1 page)
      6. American History: "Battle of San Jacinto"  (1 page)
      7. ANB: "Polk, James Knox"  (7 pages)
      8. American History: "Winfield Scott"  (2 pages)
      9. DAH: "Mexican-American War"  (5 pages)
      10. DAH: "Wilmot Proviso"  (1 page)
      11. EBO: "Mormon: History"  (2 pages)
   3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Latter-Day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of"  (4 pages)
      2. EBO: "Smith, Joseph"  (2 pages)
      3. DAH: "Gold Rush, California"  (3 pages)
          
2. Crises of the 1850s
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Kansas-Nebraska Act"  (2 pages)
      2. United States at War: "Popular Sovereignty in the American Civil War"  (2 pages)
      3. DAH: "Fugitive Slave Acts"  (1 page)
      4. American History: "John Brown"  (3 pages)
      5. DAH: "Lecompton Constitution"  (1 page)
      6. DAH: "John Brown's Last Speech  (2 November 1859)" 
         (2 pages)
      7. American History: "James Buchanan"  (2 pages)
      8. American History: "Charles Sumner"  (2 pages)
      9. American History: "Dred Scott"  (2 pages)
      10. American History: "Roger B. Taney"  (2 pages)
   2. suggested readings
      1. United States at War: Wars → American Civil War →
         Causes → Intermediate Causes  (1 page)
      2. EBO: "1850, Compromise of"  (1 page)
      3. DAH: "Kansas-Nebraska Act"  (2 pages)
      4. EBO: "Fugitive Slave Acts"  (1 page)
      5. EBO: "Kansas-Nebraska Act"  (1 page)
      6. United States at War: "Dred Scott Decision"  (2 pages)
      7. ANB: "Brown, John"  (5 pages)
      8. DAH: "Harpers Ferry Raid"  (3 pages)
   3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Popular Sovereignty"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "U.S. Whig Party"  (2 pages)
          
3. The Election of 1860
   1. main readings
      1. American History: "Stephen A. Douglas"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Lincoln-Douglas Debates"  (half a page)
      3. United States at War: "Election of 1860"  (3 pages)
   2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Lincoln, Abraham: Life: The Road to the Presidency" 
         (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Election of 1860"  (1 page)
      3. u-s-history.com: "Election of 1860"  (2 pages)

         http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h92.html

   3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Lincoln-Douglas Debates"  (2 pages)
      2. DAH: "Freeport Doctrine"  (1 paragraph)
          
4. Secession
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Secession"  (3 pages)
      2. American History: "John J. Crittenden"  (1 page)
      3. American History: "Bombardment of Fort Sumter"  (2 pages)
      4. ANB: "Anderson, Robert"  (2 pages)
      5. American History: "Pierre T. Beauregard"  (1st page only,
         i.e. up to 1861)
   2. suggested readings
      1. United States at War: Wars → American Civil War →
         Causes → Immediate Causes  (1 page)
      2. EBO: "United States: The Civil War: Secession and the Politics of the Civil War, 1860-1865: The Coming of the War"  (1 page)
      3. EBO: "Crittenden Compromise"  (1 paragraph)
      4. American History: "Pierre T. Beauregard"  (the rest)
      5. United States at War: "Battle of Fort Sumter"  (4 pages)
   3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Secession"  (2 pages)
          
5. So, Did Slavery Cause the Civil War? 
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: Wars → American Civil War →
         Causes → Long Term Causes  (2 pages)
      2. Oxford Companion to United States History: "Civil War: Causes"  (1st paragraph only)
      3. DAH: "Civil War"  (first 8 paragraphs, i.e. up to but not including "Comparative Advantages")
      4. United States at War: "Declaration of the Secession of Mississippi (January 9, 1861)"  (2 pages)
   2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "Civil War"  (1st four pages)
      2. Oxford Companion to United States History: "Civil War: Causes"  (the rest of it)

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