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Millard Fillmore
Course: US History (1491 ce)
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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