unit10-pt1

Americans in the Mexican Cession

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Created during second great awakening
Founded by Joseph Smith
- Has vision of Polygamy
- Eventually killed by a mob
Brigham Young leads mormons to Utah
- Creates rift between rest of United States
- Congress requires them to ban polygamy in order to be accepted as a state
  - Doesn’t happen until 1896
Suffered from persecution
Practiced tithing
- Church provides services in exchange for them showing up and helping out
Voted in blocs
- Now centered in Salt Lake City
Brigham Young led them northwest to utah to found utah mormon yeah

Sutter discovers gold
- Tries to keep it a secret but word spreads and men poured into California
New towns sprang up and founded settled california
- San Francisco became a wild town with people from all around the world
  - Anything goes attitude
- Real people that made money weren’t the miners, they were the ones who sold things to the miners
People squatted on lands and ignored Mexican land grants

Mexican War divides the nation after it is found out it is being used to spread slavery into the west and southwest
- Whigs took control of Congress
Wilmot Proviso: Tried to ban the spread of slavery into any new lands acquired from Mexico
Free Soil Party: Third party that opposed the of slavery into western territories
- Free Soil Free Speech Free Labor Free Men
- Whig party split
  - Cotton Whigs: pro slavery
  - Conscience Whigs: anti slavery
Popular sovereignty: each territory should decide for themselves if they want slavery

Democrats: Lewis cass, expansionisty who wants to buy Cuba
- Promoted popular sovereignty as answer to slavery in western territories
Whigs: Zachary Taylor,
- Defended spread of slavery but not into the territories
Free Soil: Martin Van buren, barnburners
- Chooses Whig as running mate
Zachary Taylor wins
- Van Buren wins 10% of popular vote and draws enough away from Cass
Slavery is now an important factor and can sway the outcome of an election