CH. 18

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CH. 18

• Renewing the sectional struggle

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• The year 1848 highlighted by rash revolutions in
  Europe, was filled with unrest in America. The
  treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had officially ended
  the war with Mexico, but it had initiated a new
  perilous round of political warfare with Mexico.

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The Popular sovereignty Panacea

• President Polk suffered from chronic diarrhea and
  could not serve his second term.
• The democratic national convention turned to a
  new leader General Lewis Cass.
• His enemies dubbed him General Cass and also
  noted that Cass rhymed with jack.
• Cass believed in popular sovereignty

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Political triumph for general Taylor

• The Whig party nominated Zachary Taylor
• The Whig party dodged all troublesome issues and
  merely extolled the homespun virtues of their
  candidate

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Californy Gold

• Some prospectors struck it rich but most didnt
  
• The ones that didnt find wealth would have been
  better off at home.
• There was a lot of crime in California due to
  that some of the prospectors were former
  criminals and there was a lack of law enforcement

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Sectional Balance and the underground railroad

• The south was relatively well off and It had
  their own president
• They were afraid many new states would be free
  states
• The underground railroad started
• Harriet Tubman was one of the most famous
  conductors
• In 1815 slave owners were demanding harsher slave
  laws

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Twilight of the senatorial giants

• In 1850 California was going to become a free
  state and southern fire-eaters threatened to
  succeed
• They all agreed to meet the next year in
  Nashville to discuss succeeding from the union
• The immortal trio-Clay, Calhoun, and Webster

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Deadlock and danger on capitol hill

• Young Guard-North
• Old Guard-South
• Fire Eaters oppose compromise
• June 1850 extreme southerners met at nashville

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Balancing the compromise scale

• North got better deal of the 1850 compromise
• California was a free state
• The disgruntled texas was paid 10 million towards
  discharging indebtedness
• South temporarily halted the abolitionist in the
  District of Columbia
• The bloodhound bill stirred up the abolitionist
  in the north

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Defeat and doom for the Whigs

• Democratic nominating convention in Baltimore
  startled a nation
• Franklin Pierce chosen as new candidate
• Pierce was weak and indecisive
• He had served in the Mexican war
• The whigs nominated Winfield Scott
• Scott lost the election

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Expansionist stirrings south of border

• The rush to the sierra Nevada gold fields aroused
  concerns in central America
• British encroachment on into the area drove the
  u.s. out
• southerns wanted to expand south after 1850

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The Allure of Asia

• California and Oregon made the united states a
  pacific power
• Cushing impressed the Chinese and they signed the
  treaty of Wanghia
• The first treaty between the Chinese and the U.S.
• Perry left for Japan in 1852 and he brought forth
  a promise for free trade and friendly
  negotiations
• he returned the year a later and the Japanese
  signed the treaty of kanagawa

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Douglas Kansas Nebraska scheme

• Douglas wanted to get rid of the north south
  deadlock
• He proposed that the Nebraska territory be split
  in two and that they chose slavery by popular
  sovereignty
• Douglas's plan contradicted the Missouri
  compromise
• North fought to protect the Missouri compact the
  south dis regarded the Missouri compact

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Congress legislatures a civil war

• The Nebraska-Kansas act fuelled the idea of civil
  war
• The Nebraska act wrecked two compromises
• The Kansas-Nebraska act shattered the democratic
  party and started the republican party
• Republicans against Kansas-Nebraska act