1. Day 3: Jackson-Manifest
Destiny
-Emily, Allison, Dan

2. Group B:
The controversial aftermath of the Mexican
War reflected the sectional interests of New
Englanders, westerners, and southerners due to
slavery.

3. The Mexican War!
America wants California, however it
belongs to Mexico.
After John Slidell’s $25 million offer is
turned down, President Polk sends 4,000
troops to the Rio Grande.
Mexico claimed that theTexas-Mexico
border was the Nueces River, not the
Rio Grande.
Mexico crosses the Rio Grande and war
with Mexico is declared.

4. Mexican War Cont.
After obtaining California, defeating
Santa Anna in Texas, and conquering
Mexico City, the war ended with
Nicholas Trist’s Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo.
The issue of slavery in the new land
remains.

5. What to do about slavery?
David Wilmont proposes the Wilmont
Provisio (Mexican Cession lands closed
to slavery).
This was passed in the House, but
failed in the balanced Senate due to the
South’s refusal to agree.
The Wilmont Provisio opens up the
issue of slavery.
General Lewis Cass aims to please in the
election of 1848 and suggests popular
sovereignty (the people of a territory
decide on the issue themselves).

6. The NorthernersThe Free Soil Party emerges because the
Northerners were upset that neither party in
the election (Taylor [whig] or Cass
[democratic]) was taking a stance on the issue.
Martin Van Buren is nominated....he is
against slavery in the territories
Free Soilers favor federal money for internal
improvements and free land for settlers out
west.
People in the Free Soil party included....
people upset over getting only half of
oregon
people who didn’t want blacks in new lands

7. The South
The South demands more land for
growing cotton along with more
slaves to work the land.
Due to the issue of slavery being
brought about from the Mexican
War, many northern abolitionists
spoke out.
This caused the South to lash back
emancipation proposals were
defeated in VA
Nat Turner’s bloody rebellion
scared whites into tightening
black codes.

8. The Westerners
Gold was discovered in California.
People fled there looking to get rich quick
With enough people to become a state,
California applies to be a free
state....threatening the15-15 slave-free balance.

9. Compromise
California’s requests brings all of these issues to
congress.
From the South: John C. Calhoun argues for
state’s rights
From the North: Daniel Webster is against
expansion of slavery, but wants compromise
(believes Mexican Cession lands are too dry for
cotton and therefore won’t need slaves).

10. Compromise of 1850What the North gets...
CA is free state
Slave trade is banned in DC, but slavery is
legal.
Texas gives up its claims to lands in New
Mexico
What the South gets...
popular sovereignty to the Mexican Cession
lands
Texas gets repaid for the lost land to New
Mexico