1. Chapter 18 - APUSH

2. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – ended the _________ War Mexico gave up claims to Texas, California and everything in between
There was debate over slavery in this area, despite the _______________ (slavery shall not exist in any land acquired from Mexico)
Mexican
Wilmot Proviso

3. Election of 1848 Polk Popular Sovereignty
Democrats - _____ couldn’t run again because he had chronic diarrhea – GROSS! So they nominated Gen. Lewis Cass – pompous - but was called the “Father of _________ _____________”
Do you remember what that means?
Popular Sovereignty
Whigs – nominated ______________ (had never even voted before). He was a hero in the ________War – owned slaves, but never mentioned his stand on expansion into the territories
Zachary Taylor
Mexican
Free-Soil Party – against _______ in the territories “Free soil, free speech, free labor, free men” - nominated former President _______________
slavery
Martin VanBuren
_______ won because free-soilers took votes away from Cass
Taylor

4. “Californy Gold” Rush Gold
______ is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California – people flocked there because they were losers back home and wanted to strike it rich! What are they called? Hint: they have a football team!
In 1849 California adopted a constitution which _________ slavery and it applied for statehood
excluded
Southerners don’t like it because it upsets ________________________________________
the balance between slave and free states

5. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, January 1849
“If a man is going to California, he announces it with some hesitation; because it is a confession that he has failed at home.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, January 1849
Oh what was your name in the States?
Was it Thompson or Johnson or Bates? Did you murder your wife,
And fly for your life?
Say, what was your name in the States?
- Contemporary song from 1850

6. The South is gettin’ frisky!
Problems for the South:
New Mexico, Utah and California all want to be ____ states
______(slave state) is claiming ½ of New Mexico
North wants the abolition of slavery in _______________
____________________ - Harriet Tubman – the South wants a more strict ____________ law – although they are only losing about 1,000 slaves per year, it is the principle of the thing that makes the South mad!
free
Texas
Washington, DC
Underground Railroad
fugitive slave

7. The Great Debate in the Senate
From January to March 1850 some key players debate in the Senate about what to do about the slave issue in the land we got from ________
Mexico
The Players:
_______________ – 73 years old (this guy just won’t die!) He said North and South should compromise (the final compromise will be his plan)
2. ________________ - 68 year old – dying from tuberculosis (he was actually too sick to give his speech) – he said leave ___________ alone, return runaways that have been hiding up North to the South, elect 2 Presidents (one from the North and one from the South) each with ______ power over the other! Dumb idea!
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
slavery
veto

8. 3. ______________ – 68 years old – remember his other debate
3. ______________ – 68 years old – remember his other debate? He said the North should give concessions to the South because the North had the _______________. Abolitionists called him a ______.
4. ______________ - Senator and northern abolitionist – against compromise because he said man must obey a “higher law” which is ______law and under that slavery is wrong altogether. He later becomes Lincoln’s __________________.
Daniel Webster
Wilmot Proviso
traitor
William Seward
God’s
Secretary of State
In 1850 Taylor dies (his wife may have poisoned him!) He was against compromise, but his replacement _______________ happily signs it!
Millard Fillmore

9. Compromise of 1850 California popular sovereignty Fugitive Slave
The _______________________
______________ became a free state
The rest of the land acquired from Mexico would be open to ______________________. Word of the MONTH!
The _________________ Law that required Northerners to return runaway slaves to their owners or face prosecution. The North called it the __________________ Law. Also called the _____________________ Bill.
(you could go up North and claim that a black person was your runaway slave. They could not call witnesses in their favor or testify for themselves – so you STOLE them!)
4. The _____________________ (but not slavery) would be abolished in Washington, DC
California
popular sovereignty
Fugitive Slave
Man Stealing
Bloodhound
slave trade

11. Did it work? Massachusetts
________________ made it illegal to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law (this law did the most to antagonize the North against the South)
The South was mad that ______________ was abolished in the territories
slavery
This is ANOTHER temporary “solution” to fix sectional differences until the Civil War finally breaks out!

12. Election of 1852
Franklin Pierce
Democrats – nominate _______________ - he is a dark horse (what does that mean?) He supports the ___________ of 1850.
Compromise
Gen. Winfield Scott
Whigs – nominate __________________ from Virginia – “Old Fuss and Feathers” – made a name for himself in the Mexican War. The Whig party was split – the South voted for _______________, but he was DEAD! Why would Southerners vote for Webster who was from New Hampshire?
Daniel Webster
Pierce
_______ won because the Whig party is dying!

13. Sec. of War - _______________ from Mississippi
Expansionist Pierce
“Polk ‘em in ‘44 and Pierce ‘em in ’52”
- a Mrs. Morrison original
Jefferson Davis
Sec. of War - _______________ from Mississippi
Southerners wanted more slave territory, so Pierce devised a plan to expand in the Caribbean and Central America. Pierce sent troops (from the _____________) to try and capture _________ from Spain (it didn’t work!)
________________ - U.S. offered Spain ____________ for Cuba – if Spain refused, then the U.S. would just take it. The North found out about the plan to expand ______________ and kicked up a ruckus. Pierce dropped the idea.
South
Cuba
$120 million
Ostend Manifesto
slavery

14. William Walker
A crazy American named _______________ made himself president of Nicaragua in He wanted to get rich! A coalition of South American armies kicked him out and he was executed by the government of ____________ in 1860.
Honduras
Davis
Another expansionist plan: Sec. of War ______ and ______________ orchestrate the Gadsden Purchase from ________________. We paid Gen. Santa Anna ____________ for this chunk of land so we could build a railroad on flat land instead of over the mountains.
James Gadsden
Mexico
$10 million

15. Another expansionist plan: Asia
After GB gained trading rights with China after the _______________ War in 1842, the U.S. sent Caleb Cushing to China in order to secure U.S. trade rights.
Opium
Treaty of Wanghia
Cushing and the Chinese signed the ______________________ - the first formal diplomatic treaty between China and the U.S.
Another expansionist plan: In 1854 Pierce sent _________________________ to Japan where Perry forced them to sign a trade treaty with the U.S. - this was called the ________________________________.
Commodore Matthew Perry
Treaty of Kanagawa

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17. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
________________ - Senator from Illinois – he wants the eastern terminus to the proposed trans-continental railroad to be in Chicago (that would bring lots of business to Chicago and get him lots of VOTES)
Problem: Both ________ and _________ have to become states. They are both above the ________ line in the ____________________ territory. Therefore, they both should be _________ states! _____________ wants to be a slave state. So Douglas comes up with a plan that scraps the ___________________ Compromise.
Kansas Nebraska
36’30°
Louisiana Purchase
free
Kansas
Missouri

18. Kansas-Nebraska Act
The people of both Kansas and Nebraska would decide slavery by ________________________
Led to ____________________ - abolitionists rushed there to vote no- pro-slaveryites rushed there to vote yes- imagine that they didn’t get along very well. Crazy guy name _________________ killed 5 pro-slaveryites and chopped up their bodies!
This led to the birth of the ____________ Party which wanted to stop the spread of slavery into the territories.
____________ in Congress are MAD! Abolitionists called Douglas a ________. The ________ now likes Douglas because this allows slavery where it had previously been banned.
popular sovereignty
“Bleeding Kansas”
John Brown
Republican
Northerners
traitor
South