an American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
  • Stephen A. Douglas
  • William Walker
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Harriet Tubman
an Illinois statesman who ran against Lincoln, Bell, and Breckenridge in the 1860 presidential election on a popular sovereignty platform for slavery, Douglas also authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and heightened the slavery debate
  • Jefferson Davis
  • William Walker
  • Stephen A. Douglas
  • Winfield Scott
Equilibrium of slave-free states if CA was added to the Union, Texas wanted their land north of the 42nd parallel, abolition of slavery in WA DC, loss of runaway slaves
  • Election of 1848
  • Seventh of March Speech
  • Southern Grievances before 1850
  • Election of 1852
Spanish officials in Cuba seized this American steamer in 1854, so President Pierce declared war, but the major European powers (England, Spain, and Russia) were already involved in the Crimean War
  • The Black Warrior
  • Matthew C. Perry
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Gadsden Purchase
in 1853 presented the Japanese with a letter from the President calling for Japan to grant trading rights to Americans, they signed a treaty opening Japan for trade in 1854
  • The Black Warrior
  • Matthew C. Perry
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Gadsden Purchase
American diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia with China in 1844
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Caleb Cushing
  • John C. Calhoun
pre-Civil War laws passed by Northern state governments to counteract the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Acts and to protect escaped slaves and free blacks settled in the North, by giving them the right to a jury trial.
  • Opium War
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Personal liberty laws
  • General Lewis Cass
the purchasing of land from Mexico that completed the continental United States It provided the land needed to build the transcontinental railroad in 1853 for $10 million
  • Matthew C. Perry
  • Daniel Webster
  • William H. Seward
  • Gadsden Purchase
sprang up in Middle West (Michigan, Wisconsin), included disgruntled Whigs, Democrats, Free-soilers, Know-Nothings, and other foes of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Elected a Speaker of the House of Representatives within two years and was the sectional major political party
  • New Republican Party
  • Nashville Assembly
  • Stephen A. Douglas
  • Free Soil Party
Formed in 1847 - 1848, dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory. Liked the Wilmot Proviso, advocated federal aid for internal improvements and free govt. homesteads for settlers
  • Free Soil Party
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Nashville Assembly
  • New Republican Party
Democratic candidate for President in 1852 and the fourteenth president of the US. He made the Gadsden Purchase, which opened the Northwest for settlement, and passed the unpopular Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  • Zachary Taylor
  • General Lewis Cass
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Franklin Pierce
began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, California. News of the discovery brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. Of the 300,000, approximately half arrived by sea and half walked overland.
  • Gold Rush of 1848
  • Tokugawa Shogunate
  • Election of 1848
  • Election of 1852
"Higher law" and natural rights, Opposed slavery expansion, Whig senator. "Irrepressible conflict" expansion of slavery between north and south
  • William H. Seward
  • Gadsden Purchase
  • Matthew C. Perry
  • Daniel Webster
Taylor urged california to adopt this constitution that prohibited slavery (1849)
  • Popular Sovereignty
  • California Constitution
  • Seventh of March Speech
  • Missouri Compromise
Jefferson Davis had James Gadsden buy an area of Mexico from Santa Anna for which the railroad would pass. Gadsden negotiated a treaty in 1853 and the Gadsden Purchase area was ceded to the United States for $10 million.
  • Matthew C. Perry
  • Daniel Webster
  • James Gadsden
  • Gadsden Purchase
The first diplomatic agreement between China and America in history, signed on July 3,Since America signed as a nation interested in trade instead of colonization, it was rewarded with extraordinary amount of trading power.
  • Treaty of Wanghia
  • Ostend Manifesto
  • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
  • Kansas-Nebraska Bill
Group of Southern extremists that met in 1850 and took a strong pro-slavery position and condemned the compromise measures
  • Kansas-Nebraska Bill
  • Treaty of Kanagawa
  • New Republican Party
  • Nashville Assembly
an 1854 agreement between the United States and Japan, which opened two Japanese ports to U.S. ships and allowed the United States to set up an embassy in Japan.
  • Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
  • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
  • Treaty of Kanagawa
  • Ostend Manifesto
a declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S. Offered $120 million for Cuba
  • Treaty of Kanagawa
  • Ostend Manifesto
  • Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
  • Treaty of Wanghia
line that divided free and slave states (originally a surveying line in the 1760s that divided PA & MD)
  • Mason-Dixon line
  • Matthew C. Perry
  • Gadsden Purchase
  • Mosquito Coast
General that was a military leader in Mexican-American War and 12th president of the United States. Was a Whig. Sent by president Polk to lead the American Army against Mexico at Rio Grande, but defeated. Died in 1850
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Zachary Taylor
  • General Lewis Cass
  • Harriet Tubman
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