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1 day ago · Taylor died suddenly of a stomach disease on July 9, 1850, with his administration having accomplished little aside from the ratification of the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and having made no progress on the most divisive issue in Congress and the nation: slavery.
5 days ago · The same year Britain signed a new treaty with the United States (Hay-Pauncefote Treaty), abrogating the Clayton–Bulwer agreement of 1850 and recognizing the right of the United States to exclusive, fortified control over a future isthmian canal.
4 days ago · In “The Great Speech of Clay,” one political cartoon with this trope, Clay’s anti-war audience (to the right) includes Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, who compares the position of anti-war Whigs with that of the New England Federalists who organized the Hartford Convention.
2 days ago · With the 1848 election of Whig Zachary Taylor, Buchanan returned to private life. Buchanan was getting on in years and still dressed in the old-fashioned style of his adolescence, earning him the nickname " Old Public Functionary " from the press.
1 day ago · think they get two slave states out of florida. so they're going just run a line down the middle. they're going have east florida, west florida, which four more senators that are pro slavery, more representatives that are pro slavery and more enslaved people to count toward overall population under the 3/5 compromise. so just like they thought ...
2 days ago · Whig nominee Zachary Taylor won the 1848 presidential election, but Taylor died in 1850 and was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Fillmore, Clay, Daniel Webster, and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas led the passage of the Compromise of 1850, which helped to defuse sectional tensions in the aftermath of the Mexican–American War for a time.
1 day ago · In the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty of 1901, the British government gave up the rights to joint construction with the United States that it had gained under the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty of 1850. A French company, which had tried unsuccessfully to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, was eager to sell its right-of-way to the United States.
