mexican war and compromise of 1850 (us history)

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

Crisis

Averted

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...for now.

© Richard Busch

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