Election of 1852
Both sides avoid topic of slavery
Centered on personality attacks
Democrats elect Pierce
Republicans/Whig elect Winfield Scott
Divided: North Vs. South
Southern Whigs support Pierce
Biggest Issue of Pierces Administration is the Kansas+Nebraska Act
North and South want control of Transcontinental railroad
South bought southern Arizona from Mexico to support railroad
Gadsden Purchase
K+NE Act states that states west of Missouri will be divided by 40th Parallel
Popular Sovereignity
Free Soil Party
Want K+NE to be free of slavery
Combine Free Soil party and Whig Party to make Republican party
Republican Party
Charles Sumner
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Resurgence of the Know Nothing Party
Anti Catholic, Anti Immigrant
Secret society
Bleeding Kansas
K shares a boundary with Missouri, slave state
Easier for the North to get people into NE
Kansas starts to get "squatters" in, to stay temporarily, and vote for slavery
North pays to have people live in Kansas, vote anti-slavery
In Spring of 1856, civil war breaks out in Kansas
Free State people were receiving arms shipments, "Beechers Bible's"
Rifle in one hand, Bible in the other
Pro-Slavery "Ruffians" went around burning down Free Slavery buildings and newspapers
North hears, and exaggerates
John Brown
Fanatic
Took six companions and retaliated for proslavery destruction and at midnight executed five pro-slavery Americans
Pottawatomie Creek
Fights of 300 pro-slavery men with 40 followers
200 Dead, 2 Million in damage
Bad for Pierce's administration
Doesn't do enough to prevent the violence
Charles Sumner
Denounces slavery
Ridicules southern Democrats
Preston Brooks, Butler
Preston Brooks beats him with a cane
Very popular with Southerners
Northerners saw it as proof of how primitive South is
Mexico
Gadsden purchase to get RR away from Rockies
Japan
Closed of to world since 1600's
US sends Cmmdr. Matthew Perry
Perry asks to enter Tokyo Harbor
Threatens to shoot if not allowed to enter
Gets Japan to sign Treaty of Kanagawa
Cuba
Occupied by Spain
Violation of Monroe Doctrine
Ostend Manifesto
Give up rights to Cuba
Election of 1856
Reps. in North upheld Congress to control slavery in the territories
Condemned Ostend Manifesto
Northern Transcont. RR
Kansas as Free State
Homestead Act
Dem. Can: Buchanan
Rep. Can: Fremont
Fremont doesn't win b/c he is Catholic, and bastard child
Buchanan wins some free states
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