HIST 17B Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Gadsden, Nebraska Territory
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Tom"s cabin remained the most popular and effective of the period. The kansas-nebraska act: democrat franklin pierce won election of 1852, pierce turned to foreign expansion, first wanting cuba from spain as a slave state but that was too controversial, so he sent james gadsden to negotiate with. Mexico: gadsden negotiated the purchase of 30,000 sq. miles of territory in present-day. Compromise- closed to slavery: at southern insistence, douglas added an explicit repeal of the missouri. Compromise of 1820: douglas"s kansas-nebraska act split the huge territory in half into nebraska and. Kansas: with this act, the federal government pushed the plains indians who lived in what became nebraska farther west, making way for farmers and railroads. Realignment of the party system: american politics changed in the aftermath of the 1854 kansas-nebraska act because the whig party disintegrated, the democrats remained a national organization after 1854 because gains in the.
