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- missionaries attempt to spread CHR
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- American settling in MXC begins in 1824
- revolt occurs after Santa Anna regains power
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- election issue is Texas/Oregon (Texas admitted by Tyler before leaving office)
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- under Zachary Taylor
- also to possibly acquire New Mexico/California
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- treaty with GBR
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- Nicholas Trist
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- Whig
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- immigrants from America, China
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- Clay introduces plan: California is free, territories able to govern according to popular sovereignty, no slave trade in DC, and more effective slave trade laws.
- doesn't pass
- Douglas proposes them as singular measures, all pass.
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- after Taylor's sudden death
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- avoids topic of slavery (but becomes an issue as N defies Fugitive Slave Acts)
- tries to buy Cuba, Hawaii, Canada; fails
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- buys southern part of Arizona/New Mexico for $10 million
- for railroads
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- popular sovereignty will decide legislature in new states
- kind of repeals the MO Compromise in the process (explicit in actual one to statisfy Southern Democrats)
- Republicans form out of Whigs and divided Democrats
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- voting is skewed in Kansas as many Missourians come to vote (in favor of slavery)
- two governments set up, fighting (John Brown, Sumner/Brooks) ensues
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- depression follows entry into office (strengthens Republicans)
- Democrat
- tries to enter Kansas as slave state, but ends up being free
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- Taney rules that Scott is property, not a citizen
- MO Compromise is unconstitutional (no authority to take property [i.e. slaves] in slave states)
- Congress cannot take property
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- Lincoln versus Douglas in Illinois
- Lincoln emerges, free labor, slavery is morally wrong but not an abolitionist
- Douglas wins
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- Republican win, other candidates: Douglas, Breckinridge, Bell
- disunion begins