Trail of tears, after Jackson's term

During Van Buren's presidency

Pamphlet written by Calhoun during nullification crisis

Written anonymously, supporting nullification against Jackson

Jackson put his supporters in office and fired the old ones

Rotation in Office

Jackson's bros who he met with in the kitchen to discuss stuff

Instead of his real cabinet

2nd National Bank head

Tried to get Jackson to renew the charter and he didn't

Mexican General and President

Captured by Houston and forced to grant Texicans independence

Border with Canada

Split between American and British parts of Oregon territory

Mexican War hero

President - Won thanks to Van Buren splitting Cass's vote

Said he'd veto Compromise of 1850, then he died

And Filmore passed it

Took California on his own

Negotiated with Kearny and became governer

America wanted to get all of the Oregon Territory

and said they'd fight if England didn't leave

Eventually they compromised though

Clay gave J Q Adams his votes

Jackson complained when Adams won

Caused nullification

Big taxes passed by Jackson

J Q Adams' Party

Tried to tax everyone to fund everything

People didn't like it and it ended the era of good feeling

Jackson was like a King with all his power

Sent the Navy against SC

Sent Indians out of America

Spoils system

Kicking out old people to bring in new ones

supposed to prevent corruption in office

San Antonio Battle

Gave Texian army courage even though they were losing

Led to their capturing of Santa Anna and victory

Last battle of Mexican war

Houston captured Santa Anna and forced him to give up Texas

Said slavery shouldn't be allowed in new territory

wasn't passed.

Made people question if Congress had the right to stop slavery

Expansionist president

Said American Blood was spilled on American soil to convince people to fight for Texas

General sent to take California

Fremont had already taken command and he negotiated with Kearney

General who took Mexico City

Old Fuss and Feathers

Ran for president

Wrote Anaconda Plan

US occupied Mexico city and made Mexico sign it

Said US gets California

US gets Texas disputed territory

US gets Mexican Cession (New Mexico)

Mexico gets $15 million

Missouri compromise line

slavery was allowed south of it and not allowed north of it

Many US state borders are on it

Part of compromise of 1850

Said the north had to help return runaway slaves to the south

1854 - Said both territories would join the union and be ruled by popular sovereignty

Passed to allow the possibility of a transcontinental railroad in the north

The railway had to run through settled territory (Nebraska)

Because it insisted on buying the land that it was on

South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas

They left the union and formed the Confederacy

President Jefferson Davis

Came up with popular sovereignty

Ran for president in 1860

Pro-slavers were mad their first Constitution got denied by Congress, so they burnt Lawrence which was an abolitionist town

Pro-slavery constitution passed in Kansas

Congress rejected it

The polling places in Anti-slavery towns had been closed early

Made fun of the south in the Senate, also made fun of Andrew Butler

Butler's nephew Preston Brooks walked over to the Senate from the House and beat Sumner with his cane

Crazy Kansas abolitionist

John Brown went to Pottawatomie and killed 5 farmers

He also went to Missouri and killed 15 pro-slavery farmers in Mairs Descygne Massacre

Later he went to Virginia and organized a slave revolt

They took over the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry

The Marine Corps came and killed most of them and hanged him

John Brown's slave revolt in Virginia

They took the federal arsenal, the Marines showed up and killed them

Nullification Crisis

Calhoun left his VP spot to go nullify the tariffs

They were about to secede when Henry Clay proposed a compromise

Set the stage for future secessions and stuff like that

Douglas made it

Said states would get to vote for or against slavery

abolitionist democrat party

1848 and 1852 elections

They nominated Van Buren in 1848, who took 10% of the popular vote away from Cass and possibly made him lose to Taylor

Free-soil: Van Buren

Democrat: Louis Cass

Whig: Zachary Taylor

Van Buren was a third party and took votes from Cass

Taylor won, he was a southern democrat who liked slavery

Great Compromiser

Compromise of 1850

Supported Compromise of 1850 including fugitive slave law despite being a northerner

That made the abolitionists all hate him

Uncle Tom's Cabin sparked debate and turned it into a North vs South vote

Franklin Pierce - South Democrat, pro-slavery

Winfield Scott - Northern Whig, abolitionist

Pierce won, the popular vote was close but the electoral vote wasn't close at all

Pierce repealed it with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and replaced it with popular sovereignty

The Dred Scott case eventually said the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional anyways because Congress can't prohibit slavery

Harriet Beacher Stowe

About the life of a slave

Made everyone realize that slavery was an issue

Eventually helped lead to Civil War

Kansas war ground over slavery on Missouri border

Kansas was ruled by popular sovereignty

A bunch of Missouri pro-slavers moved in, and a bunch of north abolitionists came to try and vote for it to be a free state

They fought a lot

Brought about by California's statehood

Said California would join as a free state

the Mexican cession would have popular sovereinty

Slavery would exist in DC but not slave trade

Fugitive-slave act

Texas gives up land north of 36^o30' in exchange for $10 million

Lincoln's VP who became President

Impeached and almost kicked out for kicking out a cabinet member

Congress wanted him out because they wanted to punish the south and he wanted to be nice

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Killed 618,000 people in the Civil War

John Brown killed 5 pro-slave farmers in Kansas 

In reaction to sacking of Lawrence

Pro-slavery president from 1856-60

Buchannan vs Fremont

Whig party was gone

Republican party (Fremont's) was created to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska act

Buchannan won

They were running for Senate but both planning on running for president

So they didn't want to look like they were anti-slavery even though they were

Douglas said his Freeport Doctrine which said popular vote should overrule a Supreme Court decision

Lincoln gave the House Divided speech saying the nation can't stay split in half

The good general for the North after the crappy ones left

He took the Mississippi river by winning Vicksburg

He eventually became a president

Union fort in the south when they seceded

in Charleston Harbor

Major Anderson led it

Southerners blockaded it, Lincoln said he'd resupply them but not reinforce them

He made the South attack first to start the Civil war

1860 election

Souther Democrat nominee

The Democratic nomination vote was split in 3 and Lincoln won because he was the Republican nominee

The Democratic party nomination was split 3 ways

Southern Democrat - Breckinridge

Northern Democrat - Stephen Douglas

Constitutional Union Party - John Bell (democrats who wanted to appeal to both north and south)

Republican nominee vote was split 5 ways

Lincoln told all 5 to support him and he'd put them in his cabinet

They did and he did and it was a great day

Jackson's Second VP

President after Jackson

Dealt with Panic of 1837

He was okay but he didn't get reelected

Secret network to free slaves

Yeah

Jackson's First VP

Wanted nullification, left office to go do it in South Carolina

Taylor's VP

President 1850-52 when Taylor died

Passed Compromise of 1850 when Taylor said he wouldn't

Repealed Missouri Compromise with the Kansas-Nebraska act

Pro-slavery northern democrat

Made Gadsden purchase happen

Went to Mexico to make Gadsden Purchase

Bought it for $10 million

Wanted to build a transcontinental railroad in the south and that was the best place for it to go through

Made in 1856 to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska act

Fremont was their first nominee

Jackson passed big tarriffs that hurt the south

Calhoun was against him and published Exposition and Protest about nullification

He left office and went to SC, they nullified the tariffs

They talked about seceding and Jackson talked about sending the navy against them

Clay made a compromise to lower the tariff if SC would un-nullify it

It set the tone for their later secession and the start of the Civil War