Presidency Chart – Zachary
Taylor (12th) (1849 - 1850) and Millard Fillmore (13th)
(1850 - 1853)
Election of 1848 |
Major Items during Taylor’s and Fillmore’s Presidencies |
|
Gold
Rush to Compromise
of 1850 - Elements Debate
over the Compromise Resistance
to the Fugitive Slave Act Personal
liberty laws Commodore
Perry’s mission to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Rise
of American or Know-Nothing Party Calhoun,
Clay and Webster die |
|
The Cotton South |
|
The
Domestic Slave Trade The
Planter Elite Smallholding
Yeomen, and Tenants Politics
in the South |