1. Road to the Civil War

2. Popular Sovereignty
The idea that States/Territories should decide the slavery issue

4. Election of 1848 Dem- Gen. Lewis Cass (Mi)
Gen. William O. Butler (KY)
Pro Slavery
Whigs- Gen. Zachary Taylor (La)
Rep. Millard Fillmore (NY)
No Stance on Slavery
Free Soil- Martin Van Buren (NY)
Rep. Charles Francis Adams (Ma)
Anti-Slavery

8. Zachary Taylor (W) 1784-1850 Virginia/Kentucky/Louisiana Army
War of 1812
Black Hawk War
Seminole War
Mexican War
“Old Rough and Ready”

9. “Californy Gold” 1848- Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill
1849- Ca. Gold Rush
Thousands of People
Lawlessness
California applies to become a free state

13. Slave Issues
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Fugitive Slave Law

14. Congressional Debate of 1850
1) Henry Clay
North needs stricter slave laws
2) John Calhoun
2 Presidents (North and South)
3) Daniel Webster
New Slave Law
Wilmot Proviso

16. Compromise of 1850 1850 Pres. Taylor Dies 1) Ca.=Free
2) NM/Utah= Pop. Sov.
3) Fugitive Slave Law
4) Slave Trade ended in DC

19. New State
California (31st)- 1850

21. Millard Fillmore (W) 1800-1874 New York Lawyer Founded Uni. Of Buffalo
NY Militia- Mex. War
NY Assembly- Anti Mason ( )
Congress ( )
NY Comptroller ( )

22. Accomplishments Kept US out of European Revolutions
Comm. Matthew Perry opens Japan(1854)

25. Election of 1852 Dem.- Sen. Franklin Pierce (NH)
Dark Horse
Whigs- Gen. Winfield Scott (NJ)

28. Franklin Pierce (D) 1804-1869 New Hampshire Bowdoin College, Me Lawyer
NH Rep. ( )
Congress ( )
Senate ( )
General Mex. War

30. Manifest Destiny Continues
Filabusters
William Walker
Central American Canal
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

31. Cuba Polk offers $100 million
Groups of Southerners try to seize it
1854 Black Warrior Affair
1855 Ostend Manifesto

32. Gadsen Purchase
$10 million
For Southern Transcontinental Railroad

33. Transcontinental Railroad
1863
Union Pacific/ Central Pacific

35. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Stephen Douglas
Kansas/ Nebraska Split
Popular Sovereignty

36. Birth of the Republican Party
1854
Anti-Slavery Party