Apples of Discord 1844-1854

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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Election of 1848

• Democrats
• Lewis Cass
• Whigs
• Zachary Taylor
• Free soil Party
• Martin Van Buren

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The 1848 Presidential Election Results
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California Gold Rush

• James Marshall
• Forty-niners
• The demand for statehood
• Opposition to admission

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GOLD! At Sutters Mill, 1848
John A. Sutter
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California Gold Rush, 1849
49ers
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Two Views of San Francisco, Early 1850s

• By 1860, almost 300,000people had traveled
  theOregon CaliforniaTrails to the
  Pacificcoast.

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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

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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