1836 – Texas Revolution president Free Soil Party: “third party” in
1837 – “Gag rule” in Congress 1857 – Dred Scott v. Sandford election of 1848, supported idea of
1841 – John Tyler elected 10th president Lecompton Constitution popular sovereignty and wished to keep 1842 – WebsterAshburton Treaty 1859 – John Brown’s raid on Harper’s slavery out of western territories Commonweatlh v. Hunt Ferry 1844 – James K. Polk elected 11th 1860 – Abraham Lincoln elected 16th Compromise of 1850: created by Henry president president Clay (1) California entered as free Oregon Dispute state, (2) popular sovereignty would be 1845 – Texas annexed The Oregon Territory: Britain and applied to New Mexico and Utah, (3) 1846 – Oregon settlement United States worked out compromise slave trade banned in nation’s capital, Wilmot Proviso with treaty that gave United States (4) Congress had no power to end 184648 – Mexican War rights to land south of 49th parallel and interstate slave trade, (5) strengthened 1848 – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Britain the land north Fugitive Slave Law, (6) settled border Seneca Falls Convention dispute between New Mexico and Texas Zachary Taylor elected 12th The Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo: president provided that the regions of Mexico KansasNebraska Act: repealed 1849 – California Gold Rush (including New Mexico and California) Missouri Compromise, stated each new 1850 – Compromise of 1850 were ceded to the United States, Rio state created from territory of Louisiana 1851 – Maine banned manufacture * Grande was fixed as southern boundary Purchase would decide whether to be sale of alcohol of Texas free or slave 1852 – Franklin Pierce elected 13th president Wilmot Proviso: no slavery in any Dred Scott Case: Supreme Court 1853 – Gadsden Purchase territory acquired from Mexico decided that slaves were property that 1854 – Republican Party concessions could be taken anywhere and that the KansasNebraska Act Missouri Compromise was 1856 – James Buchanan elected 15th unconstitutional