Tuesday, November 17, 2009

America History of 1852 - 1855




1852
  • Democrat Franklin Pierce, a friend of Hawthorne's, defeats General Winfield Scott for the presidency and affirms his support for the Compromise of 1850. 
  • "Know-Nothing" Party opposes Catholics and immigrants.

1853
  • 30 December. Gadsden Purchase gives the U.S. a strip of land in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona. (Map) 
  •  Abba Alcott and 73 other women petition the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention to urge suffrage for women.
1854

1855

  • March. After pro-slavery Missourians cross the Kansas border to elect a territorial legislature, Free State Kansans vote to outlaw slavery and set up their own capital at Topeka. 



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