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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
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Election of 1848 Lewis Cass Zachery Taylor Martin van Buren
Issues in 1850 • California • Sectional Balance and Influence • Underground Rail Road • Fugitive Slave Law
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?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war” -Abraham Lincoln Harriet Beecher Stowe
Election of 1852 Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott
Expansion under Pierce • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) • Cuba and the Ostend Manifesto (1853) • Gadsden Purchase and the Continental RR (1853)
Election of 1856 James Buchanan John C. Fremont Millard Fillmore
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
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?