Millard+FILLMORE+(1850-1853)

left was hard to finish. He managed though and is now one of the most looked back upon presidents. || John M. Clayton (1850) Daniel Webster (1850-52) Edward Everett (1852-53) William M. Meredith (1850) Thomas Corwin (1850-53) George W. Crawford (1850) Charles M. Conrad (1850-53) Reverdy Johnson (1850) John J. Crittenden (1850-53) Jacob Collamer (1850) Nathan K. Hall (1850-52) Samuel D. Hubbard (1852-53) William B. Preston (1850) William A. Graham (1850-52) John P. Kennedy (1852-53) Thomas Ewing (1850) Thomas M. T. McKennan (1850)Alexander H. H. Stuart (1850-53) || **North:** • California admitted as a free state • Texas gave up its claims to lands disputed with New Mexico • Slave trade in D.C. was banned, but slavery was legal **South:** • Popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession lands • Texas was paid $10 million for land lost • A new, tougher Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 __Fugitive Slave Act:__ Catch any slaves that escaped from the south that might be in the north and send them back. ||
 * **Dates In office: ** || July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853  ||
 * **Political Party:** || Whig ||
 * **//Notes on Election(s): //** || He didn't agree with Zachary Taylor, the former president before him. They didn't see eye to eye, so taking up what Taylor
 * **//Vice President(s): //** || none ||
 * **//Key Cabinet Officials: //** || **Secretary of State**
 * Secretary of the Treasury**
 * Secretary of War**
 * Attorney General**
 * Postmaster General**
 * Secretary of the Navy**
 * Secretary of the Interior**
 * **//Key Domestic Issues: //** || __The Compromise of 1850:__
 * **//Key Foreign Policy/Diplomatic/Military Issues: //** || Fillmore was an early champion of American commercial expansion in the Pacific, and in 1853 he sent a fleet of warships, under the command of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, to Japan to force its government to alter its traditional isolationism and enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the United States. The resulting Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) led to an agreements between Japan and other Western powers. ||
 * **Key Constitutional/Legal Issues: ** || Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Act. ||
 * **Territorial Expansion During this Period: ** || None ||
 * **//Overall Assessment of Presidency: //**


 * (This is __YOUR ANALYSIS__. It should NOT be taken from any other sources but your own brain!) ** || I think that Millard Fillmore was a good president. He did really well for going into presidency because Zachary Taylor died unexpectedly. For only being a vice president one day to president the next he held his own. He did well with the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act. He didn't support slavery but he didn't want to abolish it. Supporting the Fugitive Slave Act he hoped to please everyone but instead he just made more enemies, thus; costing him winning presidency in the next election. Following in Taylor's footsteps was hard for Fillmore but he did great and left a good path for the next president to follow in. ||
 * **//Other important facts: //**


 * (i.e. roles before/after the presidency //)//** || He was one of four Presidents born in New York State (As of 2013). He was also one of six Presidents born in a log cabin.He was born in poverty and had little education. He was mostly self taught. He was the 13th president. ||
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