1848 Election
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Whigs-Zachary Taylor
Dem-General Lewis Cass
 Popular Sovereignty
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ISSUE-Slavery in the Mexican Cession
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Free Soilers
 Martin Van Buren
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1849!
What a mess!
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California
 Free state
 13 free and 13 slave
Slavery in the MX Cession
Slavery and slave auctions in DC
TX is going to go to war with NM
Enter Henry Clay
(for the last time)
Compromise of 1850
Last time Clay , Calhoun and Webster shared the stage together!
Last of the Old Guard
Protect and preserve
Will it pass through Congress?
Oh yeah!
But will President Taylor sign it?
Zachary Taylor is dead?
Millard Filmore
Passes the Compromise
Compromise of 1850
California can be free
Slavery in the MX Cession open to popular sovereignty
Slavery is Ok in DC. Auctions are not!
TX, you can’t go to war with NM. ($5 million)
Yes to the National Runaway Slave law
Books!
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Impending Crisis of the South
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1852 Election
Franklin Pierce
Opening the Closed Door
Commodore Matthew Perry
JAPAN
 To trade with California
 Ports where whaling ships could get supplies
California has gold!
We need a transcontinental RR!
South or North ?
Gadsden Purchase
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James Gadsden
Purchased the land for $10 million
most direct and practicable route for the Southern transcontinental railroad
would be south of the United States boundary
Enter Steven Douglass
Let’s organize the land
NO!!!!!!!(36 30 line)
Let’s get rid of the line
Rescinded the 36 30 line
1854 Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska territory
Open to slavery through popular sovereignty
New England Emigrant Aid Society
Eli Thayer
Abolitionists
Let’s save Kansas from slavery
Let’s move!
Beecher’s Bible!
Open to Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
What happened to the RR?
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We are way too busy killing each other in Kansas and other areas to want a
transcontinental Railroad.
It will begin building it in 1863.
Spreads to the Congressional Floor
You can’t talk about my family!
Go Preston!
Good Grief!
Rea d
 Lecompton Constitution
 The Kansas state constitution
 C-p. 385
 R-p.277
1856 Election
James Buchanan