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 California and California applies for statehood (1849)

 

 

 

Compromise of 1850 - Elements

 

 

 

 

 

Debate over the Compromise

 

 

 

Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act

 

 

Personal liberty laws

 

Commodore Perry’s mission to Japan

 

 

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