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Millard Fillmore

As the nation’s thirteenth president, Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) supported the Compromise of 1850 and federal enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act. Elected as a Whig to the vice presidency in 1848, Fillmore ascended to the presidency upon the death of President Zachary Taylor in 1849. Taylor had opposed the expansion of slavery into new states as well as compromises on the question, but the more moderate Fillmore supported Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850 as a tool for preventing disunion. Fillmore also signed and pledged enforcement of...

American Colonization Society membership certificate, 1833, detail. (GLC)

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American Colonization Society membership certificate, 1833

When James Madison...

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Political Battles of the Jacksonian Era - Nullification

Reading 1:And, sir, let it be remembered that a revenue system, grossly and palpably unequal in itself--a system which, under the most favorable modification, would levy the entire amount of the federal taxes from one-fifth part of the productions of the Union, while the other four-fifths are entirely exempted...that this is the substratum upon which has been reared this monstrous and iniquitous superstructure--the protecting system....Let me, then, beseech the advocates of that system...relieve...

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The Nullification Crisis

Background

The relationship between the North and the South was tenuous when Andrew Jackson came to office in 1828. Ever since the Constitutional Convention of 1787, northerners and southerners had fought over slavery and tariffs. Each region wanted to make sure their economies were protected in the new Union. Several times states threatened to leave the Constitutional Convention and abandon the writing of the Constitution. By the end of the Convention, both sides had made significant compromises to the Constitution such as the...