New school history of the United States . MILLARD FILLMORE. turned from an arctic exploration undertaken eighteen yearsbefore. Dr. Kane was the most noted leader in these enter-prises. The country was singularly prosperous. The publicrevenue exceeded the expenditures by nearly $18,000,000 ;and the treasury contained more than $32,000,000 population was over twenty-three millions. THE ADMINISTRATION OF GENERAL FRANKLINPIERCE.—1853-1857. 48. General Franklin Pierce succeeded Fillmore in the Presidency. The Whigs had nominated General WinfieldScott. Pierce was soon engaged in difficul
New school history of the United States . MILLARD FILLMORE. turned from an arctic exploration undertaken eighteen yearsbefore. Dr. Kane was the most noted leader in these enter-prises. The country was singularly prosperous. The publicrevenue exceeded the expenditures by nearly $18,000,000 ;and the treasury contained more than $32,000,000 population was over twenty-three millions. THE ADMINISTRATION OF GENERAL FRANKLINPIERCE.—1853-1857. 48. General Franklin Pierce succeeded Fillmore in the Presidency. The Whigs had nominated General WinfieldScott. Pierce was soon engaged in difficult negotiations withforeign powers—with Mexico, with Austria, with Great Britain,and with Spain. The Gadsden Treaty settled the Mexican10 2l8 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. boundary for an additional payment of $10,000,000. The Treaty of Washington —a re-ciprocal treaty—closed the dif-ferences with Great Treaty of Ken-a-gawaopened Japaneseharbors to Ameri- 23 FRANKLIN PIERCE. be paid by American vessels.^ can trade, and ini-tiated the marvellous develop-ment of current civilization inJapan. Denmark was notifiedthat the Sound Dues —atoll levied on ships enteringthe Baltic—would no longer BLEEDING KANSAS. 49. Domestic affairs were more important than for-eign transactions at this time. The slavery question en-grossed the attention of all parties. The Missouri compromisewas abrogated by the bill of Senator Douglas f for the organ-ization of the Kansas and Nebraska territories. Kansas layin the same latitude with Missouri. The contending factionsof the North and South hastened to seize it. A local civilwar ensued. Emigrant Aid Societies in the NorthernStates sent Free-Soil squatters to engage in the war, andprovided them with arms. Blue Lodges in Missouri, Jayhawkers along the border, and other armed bodies, wereencouraged by the South. Skirmishes and raids, outragesand murders, were frequent. John Brown, of Os-sa-wato-mie, This notificati
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