The Economic History of the U.S. Lecture 19.pdf

The Economic History of the U.S. Lecture 19.pdf

1. Lecture 19
The Economic History of the United States

3. Read and Write

6. From the dark cellar running a steam-engine
at two dollars a week, begrimed with coal
dirt, without a trace of the elevating
influences of life, I was lifted into paradise,
yes, heaven, as it seemed to me, with
newspapers, pens, pencils, and sunshine
about me. There was scarcely a minute in
which I could not learn something. I felt that
my foot was upon a ladder and that I was
bound to climb.

8. January 24, 1848
February 2, 1848

9. California
Statehood

10. Senate
2 per State
Balanced

11. The Compromise
of 1850

12. The Compromise of 1850
California Statehood
Fugitive Slave Laws
No Slave Trade in Washington DC
Borders for Texas
Territory of New Mexico
Territory of Utah