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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

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Election of 1848

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  1. Election of 1848 Lewis Cass Zachery Taylor Martin van Buren

  2. Election of 1848

  3. Issues in 1850 • California • Sectional Balance and Influence • Underground Rail Road • Fugitive Slave Law

  4. Compromise of 1850

  5. Compromiseof 1850 • California • Slave Trade in Washington DC • Popular Sovereignty in the Mexican Cession • Fugitive Slave Law • Texas with land/$ to New Mexico Who got the better deal?

  6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war” -Abraham Lincoln Harriet Beecher Stowe

  7. Election of 1852 Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott

  8. Election of 1852

  9. Expansion under Pierce • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) • Cuba and the Ostend Manifesto (1853) • Gadsden Purchase and the Continental RR (1853)

  10. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

  11. Bleeding Kansas – May 1856

  12. Election of 1856 James Buchanan John C. Fremont Millard Fillmore

  13. Election of 1856

  14. Dred Scott Decision

  15. Lincoln Douglas Debates

  16. John Brown at Harper’s Ferry

  17. Election of 1860

  18. Election of 1860

  19. The South Secedes What does “lame duck” Buchanan do? Result? Reasons for secession: Political balance Really hate the abolitionists Thought no one would mind! No more dependence on North – Panic of 1857 Thought they were mortally right

  20. 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 states Lincoln’s Response? Why?

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