Apples of Discord 18441854
Standards & Essential Question
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SSUSH 8 The student will explain the
relationship between growing north-south
divisions and western expansion: c: Describe
the nullification crisis and the emergence of
states rights ideology, include the role of John
C. Calhoun & development of sectionalism &
e: explain the compromise of 1850
Question: What does “domestic institution of
the state” refer to? Why did the Missouri
compromise fail?
Pat Points…
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The US will conquer Mexico, but it will be as
the man (who) swallows arsenic…Mexico will
poison us.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Congressional debate
“domestic institution of the state”
proposing a constitutional amendment
The District of Columbia
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Interstate Commerce Act
Foreign slave trade
Free Soil Party
Free Soil!
Free Speech!
Free Labor!
Free Men!
 “Barnburners” – discontented northern Democrats.
 Anti-slave members of the Liberty and Whig Parties.
 Opposition to the extension of slavery in the new
territories! WHY?
The Mexican Cession
Upsetting the Missouri
Compromise
Wilmot Provisio
David Wilmot
John C. Calhoun
Free-soil Party
Election of 1848
Democrats
Lewis Cass
Whigs
Zachary Taylor
Free soil Party
Martin Van Buren
The 1848 Presidential Election Results
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Merchants and Miners…
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Make a list of the items that you would like to
purchase if you were a miner in the 1840s---do
not ask for modern day items.
Make a list and the prices of the items that you
have for sale for miners in the 1840s.
California Gold Rush
James Marshall
Forty-niners
The demand for statehood
Opposition to admission
GOLD! At Sutter’s Mill, 1848
John A. Sutter
California Gold Rush, 1849
49er’s
Two Views of San Francisco, Early 1850s
 By 1860, almost 300,000
people had traveled the
Oregon & California
Trails to the Pacific
coast.
Pat Points…Essential Question
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What were the lasting results from the CA
Gold Rush? What events would be debated in
Congress as a result? Which groups of people
made their fortunes?
Taylor’s Administration
California
New Mexico
The Great Compromiser
Clay’s Omnibus Bill
Failure
Daniel Webster
“Fire-eaters & John C. Calhoun”
Compromise
The death of Taylor
Millard Fillmore as President
The Compromise of 1850
Stephen Douglas
Six components
End of an era
Fire-eaters & Abolitionists
Northern democrats
Election of 1852
Franklin Pierce
President Franklin Pierce
Jefferson Davis
Transcontinental Railroad
James Gadsden
Determining a route
Territorial Growth to 1853
Stephen Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska territory
“popular-sovereignty”
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Whigs
The New Republican Party
Anti- Kansas-Nebraska
Transcontinental RR-Central route
Homestead Act
High protective tariff
Liberal immigration policy