A School History of the United States

by John Bach McMaster

1848. The Whigs.

No platform.
Elect Taylor and Fillmore.

1848. The Democrats.

Nothing in platform as to slavery in new territory.
Defeated, 1848.
Complaints of the South against the North:

Popular sovereignty

1. Fugitive slaves. 2. Slavery in District of Columbia. 3. Territory acquired from Mexico to be open to slavery.

Discovery of gold in California, 1848.
Rush to California.
The three routes.
Free state of California, 1849.

Effort to keep the territory free.

The Wilmot Proviso, 1846, 1847.
The Free-soil party, 1848.
Demands of the party.
Defeated in 1848.
Demand—
1. California a free state.
2. No slavery in District of Columbia.
3. No more slave states.
No more slave territories.

Whigs attempt a compromise.