1. Apples of Discord 1844- 1854

2. Pat Points… The US will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man (who) swallows arsenic…Mexico will poison us. The US will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man (who) swallows arsenic…Mexico will poison us. Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 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? Question: What does “domestic institution of the state” refer to? Why did the Missouri compromise fail?

4. The 1848 Presidential Election Results √

5. Taylor’s Administration California New Mexico The Great Compromiser Clay’s Omnibus Bill Failure Daniel Webster “Fire-eaters & John C. Calhoun” “Fire-eaters & John C. Calhoun”

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

7. End of an era Fire-eaters & Abolitionists Northern democrats Election of 1852

8. Franklin Pierce

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

10. Territorial Growth to 1853

11. Stephen Douglas Kansas-Nebraska territory “popular-sovereignty” “popular-sovereignty” Kansas-Nebraska Act Whigs

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