The Historian
By: Jacob Frazier & Logan Allen P.2
Political
Kiss the Whigs Goodbye
The Whig party has suffocated leaving Milliard Fillmore as the only remnants of their existence. After the firm establishment of the Republican Party and their views of keeping slavery strictly in the South, the Whig's lost nearly all of their supporters to them just before the election of 1856. Thus leaving what is still here today the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
Continuation of Westward Expansion
After declaring independence for Mexico in 1836 many of the people of the new republic wanted to be part of the flourishing United States. Texas enters into the United States as a slave state now creating an unbalance between slave and free states.
Economic
GOLD
The California gold rush started in 1848 and by 1849 there was some 300,000 gold seekers packing up their things and moving out west. This rush also brought many immigrants from Latin America and Asia.
Long Distance Connection
Social
Uproar in Neutral State
Dred Scott Vs. Sandford
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American in the United States who tried to sue for his and his families freedom against the United States. The result was unsuccessful because he was not ruled a citizen. Tension now surrounded the issue of slavery in the United States.