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The Mexican War
and the Compromise of 1850
The Mexican
Warand the Compromise
of 1850USHC 2.2Explain how the Monroe Doctrine and the concept of Manifest Destiny affected the United States’ relationships with foreign powers, including the role of the United States in the Texan Revolution and the Mexican War.
USHC 2.2
Explain how the Monroe Doctrine and the concept of Manifest Destiny affected the United States’ relationships with foreign powers, including the role of the United States in the Texan Revolution and the Mexican War.
John Gast, American Progress, 1872
Manifest Destiny
1845
ANNEXEDby a joint resolution of Congress
Map Credit: Kaidor
DISPUTED TERRITORY
The “Bear Flag” Republic June 14-July 9, 1846
Map Credit: Kaidor
MORE LAND WE WANT
WAR!!!
Gen. Scott’s Campaign
Occupation of Mexico City
Painting by Carl Nebel
WIN
Mexican Cession
Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848
Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
1853Gadsden Purchase
A Continuing Controversy...
A short video on this subject…
Maps of Westward Expansion
?Now What???
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot(D – PA)NEVER PASSED
FREE SOIL
SLAVERY IN MEXICAN CESSION
“Old Rough and Ready”Mexican War Hero
Died in Office
Last Southerner elected president until Woodrow Wilson in 1912
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/zt12.html
Zachary Taylor(W-LA)Twelfth President of the U.S.1849-1850
Millard Fillmore(W-NY)Thirteenth President of the U.S.1850-1853
Signed the Compromise of 1850
Last Whig President
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/mf13.html
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The
Compromise of 1850 5PROVISIONS
Admit CALIFORNI
A as a FREE STATE
STRONGER Fugitive Slave Law
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
Let settlers decide the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession.
CA$H for Land
Texas ceded land in return for $10 million from the federal government (to pay war debt).
Abolish the Slave Tradein Washington, D.C.
Mary Whitfield, Slave Auction
The Compromise of 1850For the North:
1. For the South:
2. The New Mexico Territory:
3.
4.
Slavery in Washington, DC:
5.
STRONGER Fugitive Slave Law
Abolish Slave Trade in Washington, D.C.
Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Cession
Federal assumption of Texas debt / Texas cedes western land
Admit California as a Free State
BEFORE
AFTER
The “Great Triumvirate”
of the Antebellum Senate
CALHOUNWEBSTER CLAY
The Great Compromiser at Work
one last time
Sen. Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL)
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Memorial
Designed the Compromise although Clay took credit
Big Bill
Separate BillsEach with different majorities to pass
...for now.
