1. Chapter 18

2. Western Territories
Mexican Cession: CA NM AZ UT NV

4. What to do about slavery?

5. Popular Sovereignty
People of the state decide whether or not to have slavery
Flaw: potential to
spread slavery

6. Election of 1848

7. Zachary Taylor wins

8. Free Soilers
Wilmot Proviso: proposed a ban on slavery in any territory ceded from Mexico

9. Gold Rush
1848- gold discovered in CA

11. Gold Fever
49ers
300,000 people move to CA
Crime rates accelerate

12. CA applies for statehood
State constitution does not include slavery

13. Underground Railroad
System of “stations”, “passengers”, and “conductors”
Goal: get slaves to freedom in Canada

18. Harriet Tubman
19 trips
300 slaves
“Moses”

19. Paranoia in the South
1,000 runaways/yr
Want a new Fugitive Slave Act

20. Compromise needed Addition of CA as state
Expansion of slavery into western territories
Fugitive Slave Act

21. 1850
Zachary Taylor dies
Millard Fillmore takes
over

22. Compromise of 1850 CA admitted as free state
Disputed territory b/w TX and NM given to NM
Abolition of slave trade in DC
Remainder of Mexican Cession- popular sovereignty
TX paid $10 million
Fugitive Slave Act

23. Fugitive Slave Act “man-stealing” law Illegal to help runaway slaves
Free blacks could be sold into slavery

24. Activity

25. “The Allure of Asia”
CA and OR open up Pacific Ocean and Asia

27. Britain and China
Opium Wars
Ports
Hong Kong

28. Tyler Caleb Cushing 1844- Treaty of Wanghia “Most favored nation”
Extraterritoriality

29. 1852- Japan Fillmore sends Matthew Perry to Japan with fleet of ships
Treaty of Kanagawa

30. Pacific Railroad New land/gold rush/Asia: need transportation
Location important and controversial
Gadsden Purchase- south gets claim

33. Stephen A. Douglas

34. Kansas-Nebraska Act Slavery decided by popular sovereignty
Wrecked MO Comp and Comp of 1850
Republican party