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The Popular Sovereignty Panacea
Define popular sovereignty .
Political Triumphs for General Taylor
1848 Whig Candidate:
What was the Free Soil party? What groups of people made it up?
“Californy Gold”
What happened as a result of the population boom?
Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad
Explain the controversy involving each of the following—
California
New Mexico and Utah
Texas
District of Columbia runaway slaves
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Twilight of the Senatorial Giants
“Old Guard”—Describe their final appeals.
Henry Clay
John Calhoun
Daniel Webster  Seventh of March speech
Deadlock and Danger on Capitol Hill
William H. Seward’s speech:

How did President Taylor feel about everything going on?
Breaking the Congressional Logjam
How did President Taylor’s death help the cause of concession?
“Union savers” vs. “fire-eaters”:
What happened in Nashville in mid-1850?
Balancing the Compromise Scales
In the Compromise of 1850, California entered as a ________________ ________________.
Territories of New Mexico and Utah would be decided by ________________ ________________.
Part of New Mexico came from land taken from the slave-holding state of ________________.
The ________________ ________________ was outlawed in the District of Columbia.
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850:
How did the North respond to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
Defeat and Doom for the Whigs
Election of 1852
Democrat Whig
Circle the winner.
What did this mean for the losing party?
President Pierce the Expansionist
Who was Pierce’s Secretary of War?
Why were Southerners interested in Nicaragua?
What happened in Nicaragua?
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty:
What was significant about the treaty with Japan signed in 1854?

Coveted Cuba: Pearl of the Antilles
Who was Cuba coveted by and why?
What did Pierce offer Spain for Cuba?
How did Southerners attempt to get Cuba after Pierce’s offer was rejected?
Black Warrior incident:
Ostend Manifesto:
How did the North respond when they found out about the Ostend Manifesto?
Both the North and South were trying to expand. The South wanted Cuba… what interested the North?
Pacific Railroad Promoters and the Gadsden Purchase
Why was land transportation to the newly acquired territory of California and Oregon so important?
What was the only real solution to making this happen?
Gadsden Purchase:
What were the South’s arguments for why the railroad should be built down there?
How did Northerners respond?
Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Scheme
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and who wrote it?
Congress Legislates a Civil War
How was the Kansas-Nebraska Act received by people in the different regions?
What effect did it have on the Democratic Party?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the birth of the Republican party. Who did the Republican party attract?