1. American Presidents
Polk - Lincoln

2. James Polk 11th President (1845-49) Democrat Beat Clay
1846 Oregon Territory settled with Britain
1848 Treaty Guadalupe-Hidalgo gains control from Mexico over CA, NM, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado and Wyoming
1848 Gold discovered in CA

3. Zachary Taylor 12th President (1849-50) Whig “Old Rough and Ready”
Famous war vet
Didn’t even vote in his own election
Died in office from gastroenteritis (or maybe arsenic poisoning…)

4. Millard Fillmore 13th President (1850-53) Whig Never inaugurated
Refused an honorary degree from Oxford
1850 Compromise & Fugitive Slave Act

5. Franklin Pierce 14th President (1853-57) Democrat
Defeated Winfield Scott
1853 Gadsden Purchase
1854 Kansas Nebraska Act

6. James Buchanan 15th President (1857-61) Democrat Dred Scott case
Bleeding Kansas repercussions
Denied legal right of states to secede but said the government couldn’t stop them

7. Abraham Lincoln 16th President (1861-65) Republican
Conflict with Stephen Douglas over Senate seat
Civil war – state secessions
Jan 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
Mar 1863 conscription

8. Abraham Lincoln June 1863 WV new state Nov 19, 1863 Gettysburg Address
Oct 1864 Nevada new state
Jan th Amendment passed repealing slavery
April 16, 1865 dead – John Wilkes Booth