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Mcgraw Hill — Investor Presentation (2012)
24 slides from Mcgraw Hill's investor presentation, 2012
Slide 1: Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e: Chapter 13, The Impending Crisis
Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
Slide 2: Highlights
Highlights Looking Westward Expansion and War The Sectional Debate The Crises of the 1850s 2 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 3: Looking Westward
Looking Westward Manifest Destiny – Racial Justification – Opposition to Further Expansion Americans in Texas – Stephen Austin Sam Houston (Portrait Gallery) 3 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 4: Expanding Settlement, 1810-1850
Looking Westward Expanding Settlement, 1810-1850 4 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 5: Looking Westward
Looking Westward Tensions between the United States and Mexico – San Jacinto – Opposition to Annexation Oregon – Disputed Claims – Conflict between Settlers and Indians 5 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 6: Looking Westward
Looking Westward Westward Migration Life on the Trail – Oregon Trail – Life on the Trail A full team on the Sierras (Library of Congress) 6 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 7: Western Trails in 1860
Looking Westward Western Trails in 1860 7 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 8: Expansion and War
Expansion and War The Democrats and Expansion – James K. Polk – Compromise over Oregon James K. Polk (Portrait Gallery) 8 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 9: The Oregon Boundary, 1846
Expansion and War The Oregon Boundary, 1846 9 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 10: Expansion and War
Expansion and War The Southwest and California – Texas Boundary in Dispute – American Interests in California 10 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 11: The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Expansion and War The Mexican War, 1846-1848 11 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 12: Expansion and War
Expansion and War The Mexican War – Failure of the Slidell Mission – Opposition to the War – Bear Flag Revolution – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 12 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 13: Southwestern Expansion, 1845-1853
Expansion and War Southwestern Expansion, 1845-1853 13 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 14: The Sectional Debate
The Sectional Debate Slavery and the Territories – Wilmot Proviso – Competing Plans – Free-Soil Party 14 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 15: The Sectional Debate
The Sectional Debate The California Gold Rush – Forty-Niners – Indian Slavery An 1858 map of California and Oregon, showing gold strikes (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) 15 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 16: The Sectional Debate
The Sectional Debate Rising Sectional Tensions – Sectional Conflict over Slavery in the Territories The Compromise of 1850 – Clay’s Proposed Solution – New Leadership – Temporary Compromise Prominent American legislators pose while working out the Compromise of 1850 (Library of Congress) 16 © 20
Slide 17: Slave and Free Territories Under the Compromise of 1850
The Sectional Debate Slave and Free Territories Under the Compromise of 1850 17 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 18: The Crises of the 1850s
The Crises of the 1850s The Uneasy Truce – Opposition the Fugitive Slave Act “Young America” – Ostend Manifesto Franklin Pierce (Library of Congress) 18 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 19: The Crises of the 1850s
The Crises of the 1850s Slavery, Railroads, and the West – Transcontinental Railroad and Slavery – Gadsden Purchase The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy – Kansas-Nebraska Act – Birth of the Republican Party 19 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 20: The Crises of the 1850s
The Crises of the 1850s “Bleeding Kansas” – Pottawatomie Massacre – Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner The Free-Soil Ideology – “Free-Soil” Ideology – “Slave Power Conspiracy” 20 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 21: The Crises of the 1850s
The Crises of the 1850s The Pro-Slavery Argument Buchanan and Depression – Election of 1856 The Dred Scott Decision – Taney’s Sweeping Opinion 21 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 22: The Crises of the 1850s
The Crises of the 1850s Deadlock over Kansas – Lecompton Constitution Rejected The Emergence of Lincoln – Lincoln-Douglas Debates – Lincoln’s Position Abraham Lincoln (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) 22 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 23: The Crises of the 1850s
The Crises of the 1850s John Brown’s Raid Attempt to foment slave revolt at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, fails Brown hung for treason The hanging of John Brown (Library of Congress) 23 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Slide 24: The Crises of the 1850s
The Crises of the 1850s The Election of Lincoln – Divided Democrats – Disunion The Election of 1860 24 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.