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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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?