US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum: Difference between revisions
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* | * 1854 Gadsden Purchase <br><br> | ||
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=== | === Compromise of 1850 === | ||
* | * Ends the Missouri Compromise (of 1820) | ||
* last of the “Great Compromisers” Clay (KY), Calhoun (CS) & Daniel Webster (MA) | |||
Ends the Missouri Compromise (of 1820) | ** Clay divided larger bill into parts in order to pass | ||
* parts of the Compromise of 1850 | |||
** California admitted as free state | |||
** Fugitive Slave Law | |||
*** upsetting to northerners | |||
*** included a concession to Northerners in the ban of the slave trade in DC (but not of slavery itself) | |||
** Utah & New Mexico added as territories w/ each to write its own constitution (popular sovereignty concept re. slavery) | |||
* after Compromise of 1850 new generation of leaders take over, more strident, more sectional-minded, more radical / ideological on both sides | |||
* decline of Whig power | |||
* No Nothings party > American Party, anti-immigrant (“nativism”), anti-catholic | |||
>> both sides radicalize >> no way to compromise | >> both sides radicalize >> no way to compromise | ||
=== Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) === | |||
> book about slave life by Harriett Beecher Stowe | > book about slave life by Harriett Beecher Stowe | ||
> sold 2 mm copies | > sold 2 mm copies | ||
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> Harpers Ferry, VA to instigate a slave rebellion | > Harpers Ferry, VA to instigate a slave rebellion | ||
> put down by Federal troops, Brown hanged for treason | > put down by Federal troops, Brown hanged for treason | ||
=== Western expansion === | |||
* '''Gadsden Purchase''', 1853 | |||
** negotiated after the Mexican-American war to purchase Mexican territory in the south of modern AZ and southwest area of NM | |||
** includes modern AZ cities of Yuma & Tucson | |||
** cost was $10 million and motive for Mexico to sell it was likely to get the money before the Americans fully populated and/or seized it | |||
Panic of 1857 | Panic of 1857 | ||