The 1850s: the road to war

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

1849
Dept of Interior
31st Congress 112 Democrats, 109 Whigs,
13 F-S Senate Democrats 35-25
California, the 49ers and statehood

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

1852
Uncle Toms Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Young America: nationalism, manifest
destiny, and pro revolutions of 1848
(Europe)
Presidential election Franklin Pierce (DNH) 254-Winfield Scott (W-PA) 42 John
Hale (FS) We polked you in 44 and well
pierce you in 52!

1853
Gadsden Purchase $10m AZ, NM railroad
route

1854

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

1855
Kansas Question Border Ruffians &
Shawnee & Topeka and Antislavery

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)

1857

Dred Scott decision

Lecompton Constitution
Panic of 1857
The Impending Crisis Hinton Helper

1858
English Bill and Kansas
Lincoln-Douglas debates and Freeport
Doctrine
Irrepressible Conflict and Seward

1859
John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry

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