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| ..of the people's rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. |
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| ..was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. Founded in Buffalo, New York, it was a third party and a single-issue party that largely appealed to and drew its greatest strength from New York State. |
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| ..(1848–1855)began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. |
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| ..was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). |
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| was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. |
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| ..Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. |
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| ..secured rights and privileges for the Us, to trade in Japan |
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| ..In Tokyo, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan. |
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| ..went to negotiate with Tokyo for open trade and correct treatment for shipwrecked sailors. |
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| ..was an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act |
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| ..senator , who did not th9ink government needed to legislate tings about slavery. |
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| ..a young senator who was not willing to compromise when it came to slavery. (Anti-slavery) |
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