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Expansion and Slavery

Expansion and Slavery. John Tyler #10. Converted Dem Vetoed Bank, alienated Clay, Cabinet resigns Said NO to internal improvements Not asked back!!!. Expansion Issues. Borders … Webster-Ashburton Treaty settles question of Maine’s northern border

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Expansion and Slavery

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  1. Expansionand Slavery

  2. John Tyler #10 • Converted Dem • Vetoed Bank, alienated Clay, Cabinet resigns • Said NO to internal improvements • Not asked back!!!

  3. Expansion Issues • Borders … • Webster-Ashburton Treaty settles question of Maine’s northern border • East is set now moving west … Adams-Onis Line

  4. American Progress By George A. Crofutt c. 1873 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

  5. Texas • Stephen Austin & 300 settlers • 1830 … 20,000 Americans, 2000 slaves, few thousand Mexicans • To purchase or not to purchase… • Can’t trust those Anglos

  6. Remember the Alamo! • Santa Anna the “Napoleon of the West” • 5,000 Mexican troops vs. 187 • Ten days • Sam Houston

  7. Goliad • San Jacinto • 1836 Republic of Texas • Annexation issue

  8. Oregon

  9. James K. Polk #11 • 1844 Whigs/Clay vs. Dem/Polk • “Young Hickory” • Opposed tariffs and Bank • Expansionist • 54º40’ or fight!

  10. 1845 Texas joins • Fulfilled campaign promises • Lowered tariff • Said no to internal improvements • Announced he wanted not only Oregon but the Southwest • Compromise reached with GB • Back to Texas …

  11. War with Mexico • Which border? Nueces River or Rio Grande • War never formally declared • Zachary Taylor “Hero of Buena Vista

  12. Winfield Scott “Hero of Mexico City” • Santa Anna loses again! • Dissatisfaction with results … N vs Polk

  13. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo • Rio Grande is the southern border • New Mexico and California ceded to US • $15 million plus claims

  14. California • John C. Fremont • Bear Flag of the Republic of CA • Gold Rush 1848 • Missouri Compromise does not fit movement

  15. Congress could control slavery in the territories hence …gag rule • Wilmot Proviso … all land in the Mexican Cession lands is free soil • Paranoia increases in South • “popular sovereignty” • Allows Congress to avoid the issue

  16. 1848 … Whigs/Taylor #12 vs. Dem/Lewis Cass vs. Free Soil/Van Buren • 1849 California asks to be admitted as a state • Taylor suggests CA decide on own • South feels betrayed

  17. Compromise of 1850 • Great Compromiser • 3 “young lions” now old! • Clay with Stephen Douglas • Calhoun • Webster’s March 7th Speech • Seward’s “higher law”

  18. The Compromise • California = free state • Mexican Cession = Utah and New Mexico w/pop.sovereignty • Texas western border and debts settled • Slave trade ends in D.C. • Fugitive Slave Act • Taylor NO but Fillmore YES

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