The Whig party was evangelical in origin (p 48) and belived it should be God and not man, the virtue of the country’s ideals, and not the sword that should cause the US to grow and prosper. The Senate ratified the treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo in a vote that was 38-14, with five Democrats voting against it because they wanted more territory, and seven Whigs voting with them because they wanted none of the territory. of the Rio Grande river and purchase the Northern part of California and New Mexico for $15 million. At first Polk dismissed the treaty when it was sent to him, but changed his mind and sent it to Congress for ratification. Instead of returning to Washington as ordered, he disobeyed the President and signed an agreement with Mexcio giving the US everything that Polk originally requested him to get. Finally Polk relented and recalled Trist right at the time when Trist found an openning in the negotiations. In Washington, Polk was having to deal with his fellow Democrats who were howling for more territory. Trist remained for several months during the summer of 1847 but found Santa Anna “reluctant” to yield up half his country. Once the US captured Mexico City Polk sent Nicholas Trist to negotiate surrender terms from Santa Anna. In the end it was this debate that split the country and brought civil war. The acquision of Mexico was such a big deal because it raised the debate over the balance of power between slave holding South and the North and the spread or limitation of slavery. Polk ran on this platform and it was mostly Southerns who fought for Mexico. Although some hardline Democrats wanted, “54°, 40’ or fight.” Polk, a Democrat, and slave-holder used his one term from 1836?-1840? to acquire more terrritory then any other President, gaining Mexico north of the Rio Grande and settling the US boundry with Canada at 49 deg. These notes are intended not as an original history of the time but simply as notes from a book by another author.Ĭhapter 1: The United States at MidcenturyĪs Ralph Waldo Emerson said, Mexico will posion us. Much of the prose is directly plagerized and I make no claim to the contary. Note: The following are notes that are intended to be readable but not necessarily good writing. (See the box on page 70 for details.Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson To help students learn their parts, we have isolated both parts and put them on our web site. This divisi is easily achievable, with step-wise movement. But chorally, it is arranged as a 2-part piece with a further simple divisi at the end. This song was as much a military selection as one played and sung around a campfire with whatever instruments were available.Īs a choral piece, this can easily be done in the classroom or in performance in unison singing only part 1. But when it settles into the verse part of the tune, we have added folk instruments of then and now – banjo, guitar, and mandolin. It has a big concert opening and a big ending. Our arrangement captures the feel of an army band expanded to be an orchestra. If you are interested in the original forms, they are readily available on the Internet. Such things were very common, and remain so today as songs are adapted, parodied, and sung rousingly for the polar opposite cause from the original.īecause all sets of original lyrics were not so kid-friendly, we have adapted them for this arrangement. It is interesting to note that while the lyrics were forcefully pro-Union, saying derisive things about the South and its armies, the tune became so popular that people on the Confederate side of the conflict adapted the song with lyrics that were positive for their cause. Selling sheet music was the primary way that composers supported themselves while writing music. If you share this information with your students, discuss the fact that at the time people only experienced music by hearing someone perform it, or by performing it themselves, mostly with sheet music. So much so, that at the peak of its popularity, the publisher was running 14 presses at the same time, all printing the sheet music, and even then they could not keep up with demand. The song quickly caught on with people in the North. This boisterously patriotic song was written by George Frederick Root in 1862 in the midst of America's great Civil War, a terrible few years of our history.
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