1836 Van Buren
Panic of 1837
Independent Treasury Bill 1837
“loco foco Democrats”
1840 Whigs General Wm Henry
Harrison; John Tyler
“Tippecanoe and Tyler, too”
JD-Van Buren
1841-1845
1. Caroline 1837 MacKenzie
2. McLeod 1840 Daniel Webster
3. Slave trade “right of visit”
4. Maine boundary “Aroostook War”
Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842
Extradition
Manifest Destiny
1844 Election Dem James K. Polk
“54 40’ or fight”
Whig Henry Clay
1845-1849
Gen. Zachary Taylor Nueces R
May 1846 Mexican War 1846-1848
49” June 1846 The Oregon Treaty
1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
1853 The Gadsden Purchase
Northern Dem
Southern Dem
David Wilmot Proviso 1846
1848 Dem Louis Cass
Whigs Zachary Taylor 1849Clay, Calhoun, Webster
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive slave law
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s
Cabin 1852
Millard Fillmore
1852 Whig Winfield Scott
Dem Franklin Pierce
Transcontinental rr
NO TX San Diego
Memphis Ark and Canadian R LA
StL Kan and Ark R Salt Lake City SF
Miss R MO R 49th” Pacif NW
Stephen A. Douglas ND
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 Kansas
Nebraska
Popular Sovereignty
1854 Republican Party
“bleeding Kansas”
Senator Charles Sumner Mass Rep
“The Crime Against Kansas” 1856
Senator Butler SC
Cong. Preston Brooks SC
1856 Election Rep John C Fremont
Dem James Buchanan
“Black Rep”
James Buchanan 1857-1861
Dred Scott v Sanford 1857
Roger Taney
Due process of law
Panic of 1857
Abraham Lincoln
1858
Freeport Doctrine
1859 Personal Liberty Laws
October 1859 John Brown’s Raid
Harper’s Ferry Va
1860
Dec 20, 1860 SC
Feb 1 1861
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
April 12, 1861 Fort Sumter