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Mind Map by Rachel Zhang, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rachel Zhang
over 9 years ago
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Before the Civil War (1848-1860)
- Election of 1848
- avoided the slavery issue
- Whigs: Gen. Zachary Taylor
- Democrats: Lewis Cass
- popular sovereignty
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- popular sovereignty
- Barnburners (Van Buren
wing of the Democratic
Party
- didn't like
Cass or
popular
sovereignty
- combined with
antislavery Liberty
Party and formed the
Free Soil Party,
nominated Van
Buren
- didn't like
Cass or
popular
sovereignty
- avoided the slavery issue
- California Gold Rush (1849-60)
- Compromise of 1850
- admit CA as free state; NW
territory will be opened and
slaves can be taken there; fed.
gvnt will pay off Texa's debt
from Mexican Wr
- If CA is admitted as
free, South think, there
will be more free than
slave states. How long
will slavery last?
- If CA is admitted as
free, South think, there
will be more free than
slave states. How long
will slavery last?
- Henry Clay
- admit CA as free state; NW
territory will be opened and
slaves can be taken there; fed.
gvnt will pay off Texa's debt
from Mexican Wr
- Compromise of 1850
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