The 1850s: the road to war

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The 1850s the road to war
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1848I know its not the 1850s but

• Discovery of Gold 1/24
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• War cost 1721 killed 11,155 death from disease
  Financial cost 97,500,000
• Presidential election Democrats Lewis Cass (127
  8f 7s) Whigs Zachary Taylor (8s 7f)(163) Free
  Soil Van Buren NY

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1849

• Dept of Interior
• 31st Congress 112 Democrats, 109 Whigs, 13 F-S
  Senate Democrats 35-25
• California, the 49ers and statehood

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1850

• Compromise of 1850 The great debate
• Webster I wish to speak today, not as
  Massachusetts man, not as a Northern man, but as
  an American.
• William Seward (NY) all legislative compromises
  are radically wrongappeal to a higher authority
  than the Constitution on the issue of slavery in
  the territories.
• The Omnibus Clay and Douglas 5 laws
• Taylor and compromise and his death July 9

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1852

• Uncle Toms Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Young America nationalism, manifest destiny,
  and pro revolutions of 1848 (Europe)
• Presidential election Franklin Pierce (D-NH)
  254-Winfield Scott (W-PA) 42 John Hale (FS) We
  polked you in 44 and well pierce you in 52!

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1853

• Gadsden Purchase 10m AZ, NM railroad route

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1854

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society
• Republican Party
• Know-Nothing Party
• Ostend Manifesto

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1855

• Kansas Question Border Ruffians Shawnee
  Topeka and Antislavery

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1856

• Bleeding Kansas
• John Pottawatomie Brown
• The Crime against Kansas Sumner (MASS) and
  Brooks (SC)
• Presidential Election Buchanan (D-PA 174 14s 5f)
  Fremont (R-CA 114 11f) Fillmore (K-N)

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1857

• Dred Scott decision
• Lecompton Constitution
• Panic of 1857
• The Impending Crisis Hinton Helper

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1858

• English Bill and Kansas
• Lincoln-Douglas debates and Freeport Doctrine
• Irrepressible Conflict and Seward

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1859

• John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry

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1860

• Jefferson Davis Resolutions
• Presidential Election Lincoln (R-Ill 180 18f)
  Breckinridge (D(south)-Ky 72 11s) Bell
  (Constitutional Union 39 3 border states) Douglas
  (D(north) 12 Mo 3 NJ votes)
• Dec 24 South Carolina secedes