1848

=1848= =Election of 1848:= -Taylor (Whig) won the election and defeated the free-soiler who supported the Wilmot Proviso &democrat who wanted public sovereignty =Mexican Cession of 1848:= -Treaty that was finalizing the land disputes between Mexico and US US gained California, Nevada, Utah, some part of Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico, Wyoming -Texas was a slave state, so the Northerners wanted Oregon as a free state. ‘balance state’ -Constitution gave the government right to regulate international slave trade but couldn’t regulate the slavery that already existed