Zachary Taylor Flashcards
Vice president?
Millard Fillmore
In office
July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853
Vice President None
Preceded by Zachary Taylor
Succeeded by Franklin Pierce
12th Vice President of the United States
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Zachary Taylor
12th President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1849[a] – July 9, 1850
Vice President Millard Fillmore
Preceded by James Polk
Succeeded by Millard Fillmore
Personal details
Born November 24, 1784
Barboursville, Virginia, U.S.
Died July 9, 1850 (aged 65)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
Louisville, Kentucky
Political party Whig
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California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush influenced Zachary Taylor in that it had eased the sectional tension for the entrance of the state of California. Before, California was not in the United States as it just had won its independence form Spain through the Mexican-American War. Therefore, as the sectional tensions were raging throught the United States, California was inhibited from entering the United States due to whether it would become a slave or a free state. Then, a gold rush was hit in California creating an influx of citizens flooding into California. This occurence allowed Taylor to permit California as a free state into the United States without the decisions of the United States’ Congress due to the fact that the majority of citizens in Californa were agaisnt the idea of Slavery.
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Clay’s Omnibus Bill
The Compromise was greeted with relief, although each side disliked specific provisions.
Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico, which it had threatened war over, as well as its claims north of the Missouri Compromise Line, transferred its crushing public debt to the federal government, and retained the control over El Paso that it had established earlier in 1850, with the Texas Panhandle (which earlier compromise proposals had detached from Texas) thrown in at the last moment.
California’s application for admission as a free state with its current boundaries was approved and a Southern proposal to split California at parallel 35° north to provide a Southern territory was not approved.
The South avoided adoption of the symbolically significant Wilmot Proviso[1] and the new New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory could in principle decide in the future to become slave states (popular sovereignty), even though Utah and a northern fringe of New Mexico were north of the Missouri Compromise Line where slavery had previously been banned in territories. In practice, these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture and their existing settlers were non-Southerners uninterested in slavery. The unsettled southern parts of New Mexico Territory, where Southern hopes for expansion had been centered, remained a part of New Mexico instead of becoming a separate territory.
The most concrete Southern gains were a stronger Fugitive Slave Act, the enforcement of which outraged Northern public opinion, and preservation of slavery (but not the slave trade) in the national capital.
The slave trade was banned in Washington D.C.
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Taylor’s Death
He died of ammonia. Vice President Millard Fillmore took over.
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