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Apples of Discord 1844-1854
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Pat Points
  • The US will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the
    man (who) swallows arsenicMexico will poison us.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

3
Standards Essential Question
  • SSUSH 8 The student will explain the relationship
    between growing north-south divisions and western
    expansion c Describe the nullification crisis
    and the emergence of states rights ideology,
    include the role of John C. Calhoun development
    of sectionalism e explain the compromise of
    1850
  • Question What does domestic institution of the
    state refer to? Why did the Missouri compromise
    fail?

4
Congressional debate
  • domestic institution of the state
  • proposing a constitutional amendment
  • The District of Columbia
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
  • Interstate Commerce Act
  • Foreign slave trade

5
Free Soil Party
Free Soil! Free Speech!
Free Labor! Free Men!
  • Barnburners discontented northern Democrats.
  • Anti-slave members of the Liberty and Whig
    Parties.
  • Opposition to the extension of slavery in the
    newterritories!

WHY?
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The Mexican Cession
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Upsetting the Missouri Compromise
  • Wilmot Provisio
  • David Wilmot
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Free-soil Party

8
Election of 1848
  • Democrats
  • Lewis Cass
  • Whigs
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Free soil Party
  • Martin Van Buren

9
The 1848 Presidential Election Results
v
10
California Gold Rush
  • James Marshall
  • Forty-niners
  • The demand for statehood
  • Opposition to admission

11
GOLD! At Sutters Mill, 1848
John A. Sutter
12
California Gold Rush, 1849
49ers
13
Two Views of San Francisco, Early 1850s
  • By 1860, almost 300,000people had traveled
    theOregon CaliforniaTrails to the
    Pacificcoast.

14
Pat PointsEssential Question
  • What were the lasting results from the CA Gold
    Rush? What events would be debated in Congress as
    a result? Which groups of people made their
    fortunes?

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Taylors Administration
  • California
  • New Mexico
  • The Great Compromiser
  • Clays Omnibus Bill
  • Failure
  • Daniel Webster
  • Fire-eaters John C. Calhoun

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Compromise
  • The death of Taylor
  • Millard Fillmore as President
  • The Compromise of 1850
  • Stephen Douglas
  • Six components

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End of an era
  • Fire-eaters Abolitionists
  • Northern democrats
  • Election of 1852

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Franklin Pierce
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President Franklin Pierce
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Transcontinental Railroad
  • James Gadsden
  • Determining a route

20
Territorial Growth to 1853
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Stephen Douglas
  • Kansas-Nebraska territory
  • popular-sovereignty
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Whigs

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The New Republican Party
  • Anti- Kansas-Nebraska
  • Transcontinental RR-Central route
  • Homestead Act
  • High protective tariff
  • Liberal immigration policy
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