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Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore's Presidency
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US History (1491 ce)

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 Millard Fillmore  Whig  Vice President-None appointed to the vacancy  Major Domestic Affairs  Compromise of 1850 delayed the Civil War for about 10 years  Proposed by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and Stephen A. Douglas; opposed by John C. Calhoun  Slave-trading illegal in D  California admitted as a free state  Remained of Mexican Cession to be organized as Utah and New Mexico territories  Slavery in these territories to be determined by Popular Sovereignty  Fugitive Slave Law makes it easier to recapture runaway slaves  Publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's melodramatic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852  Portrayed slaves as human beings, a novel idea at the time  300,000 best-seller in the United States; 7 million world-wide  Major Foreign Affairs  Herbert Spencer uses the term "evolution" to explain nature in his work "The Development Hypothesis  Cuba declares independence from Spain 1851  Napoleon III declared Emperor of new French Empire  Ratification of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

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Millard Fillmore

Course: US History (1491 ce)

97 Documents
Students shared 97 documents in this course

University: Jackson College

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Millard Fillmore
Whig
Vice President-None appointed to the vacancy
Major Domestic Affairs
Compromise of 1850 delayed the Civil War for about 10 years
Proposed by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and Stephen A.
Douglas; opposed by John C. Calhoun
Slave-trading illegal in D.C
California admitted as a free state
Remained of Mexican Cession to be organized as Utah and
New Mexico territories
Slavery in these territories to be determined by Popular
Sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Law makes it easier to recapture runaway slaves
Publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's melodramatic novel Uncle
Tom's Cabin in 1852
Portrayed slaves as human beings, a novel idea at the time
300,000 best-seller in the United States; 7 million world-wide
Major Foreign Affairs
Herbert Spencer uses the term "evolution" to explain nature in his
work "The Development Hypothesis
Cuba declares independence from Spain 1851
Napoleon III declared Emperor of new French Empire
Ratification of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty