Presidency Chart – James K.docVIP

Presidency Chart – James K. Polk (11th) (1845-1849) ? Election of 1844 ? ? Major Items during Polk’s Presidency Oregon Boundary Dispute Problem: Resolution: ? Mexican War ? Who’s fighting: Causes: Effects: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Mexican Cession) ? Wilmot Proviso Popular Sovereignty ? Morman migration to Utah (1847) ? Gold discovered in California (1848) ? ? Presidency Chart – Zachary Taylor (12th) (1849 - 1850) and Millard Fillmore (13th) (1850 - 1853) ? Election of 1848 ?Parties, presidential candidates and their platforms ? Major Items during Taylor’s and Fillmore’s Presidencies Gold Rush to California and California applies for statehood (1849). Include Taylor’s plan as well as the South’s reaction. ? Compromise of 1850 Omnibus strategy vs. series of bills and role of Henry Clay ? ? ? ? Commodore Perry’s mission to Japan ? ? Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) ? Calhoun, Clay and Webster die ? Presidency Chart – Franklin Pierce (14th) (1853 - 1857) Election of 1852 ?Parties, candidates, and platforms ? Major Items during Pierce’s Presidency Gadsden Purchase (1853) ? Perry opens Japan to world trade (1853) ? Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) ? ? Creation of Republican Party ? Bleeding Kansas ? ? Ostend Manifesto ? ? Presidency Chart – James Buchanan (15th) (1857 - 1861) Election of 1856 ?Parties, candidates, platforms ? Major Items during Buchanan’s Presidency Dred Scott Decision (1857) ? ? ? LeCompton Constitution ? ? Panic of 1857 ? Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) ? ? ? ? John Brown’s Raid ? ? ? Secession of SC and Creation of the Confederacy(follows election of 1860) ? ? ? ? Crittenden Compromise ? ? Presidency Chart – Abraham Lincoln (16th) (1861 - 1865) Election of 1860 ? Prominent Members of Lincoln’s Cabinet ? Major Items during Lincoln’s Presidency Fort Sumter (April, 1861) ? ? Civil War (1861 – 1865) ? ? Lincoln and the search for a general ? ? Draft and Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus ? ? Political opposition to the war