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trade, (5) strengthened Fugitive Slave Law, (6) settled border dispute between New Mexico and Texas KansasNebraska Act: repealed Missouri Compromise, stated each new state created from territory of Louisiana Purchase would decide whether to be free or slave Dred Scott Case: Supreme Court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