Election of 1848

Election of 1848

Lewis Cass Zachery Taylor Martin van

Buren

Election of 1848

Issues in 1850

• California• Sectional Balance and Influence• Underground Rail Road• Fugitive Slave Law

Compromise of 1850

Compromise of 1850

California

Slave Trade in Washington DC

Popular Sovereignty in the Mexican Cession

Fugitive Slave Law

Texas with land/$ to New MexicoWho got the

better deal?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war”

-Abraham Lincoln

Election of 1852

Franklin Pierce

Winfield Scott

Election of 1852

Expansion under Pierce

• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)• Cuba and the Ostend Manifesto(1853)• Gadsden Purchase and the Continental RR (1853)

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

Bleeding Kansas – May 1856

Election of 1856

James Buchanan

John C. Fremont

Millard Fillmore

Election of 1856

Dred Scott Decision

Lincoln Douglas Debates

John Brown at Harper’s Ferry

Election of 1860

Election of 1860

The South Secedes What does

“lame duck” Buchanan do? Result?Reasons for secession:1. Political

balance2. Really hate

the abolitionists

3. Thought no one would mind!

4. No more dependence on North – Panic of 1857

5. Thought they were mortally right

Crittenden Amendments*Designed to appease the South

*No slavery above 36 30

*Slavery would be given full federal protection south of the line

*the use of Popular Sovereignty for future statesLincoln’s

Response? Why?