Essentials of United States history . e South. President Taylor died in office and most of the old partyleaders passed away. New leaders came to the front and thesewere either pro-slavery or anti-slavery men. CHAPTER XXVII PIERCES ADMINISTRATION 11853-1857) 318. The Worlds Fair. —In 1851, a Worlds Fair, toillustrate the worlds progress in the arts and sciences, was held in London, at the CrystalPalace, a large building coveredwith glass. This attracted so muchattention that it was followed byanother Worlds Fair, held inanother Crystal Palace, at NewYork in the summer of 1853. Va-rious nations
Essentials of United States history . e South. President Taylor died in office and most of the old partyleaders passed away. New leaders came to the front and thesewere either pro-slavery or anti-slavery men. CHAPTER XXVII PIERCES ADMINISTRATION 11853-1857) 318. The Worlds Fair. —In 1851, a Worlds Fair, toillustrate the worlds progress in the arts and sciences, was held in London, at the CrystalPalace, a large building coveredwith glass. This attracted so muchattention that it was followed byanother Worlds Fair, held inanother Crystal Palace, at NewYork in the summer of 1853. Va-rious nations were invited to exhibitwith America. The fair had ex-cellent results. Thereby Americasaw what the nations of Europewere doing, and those countries sawhow rapidly America was improving, and wherein she excelled. 319. Commodore Perry and Japan. — The ports of Chinaand Japan had been closed to foreign countries for , by a war begun in 1840, had forced China to openher ports. A little later the United States made a treaty. Franklin Pierce, PIERCES ADMINISTRATION (1853-1857) 253 with China for free commerce. Then, in 1853, CommodoreMatthew C. Perry was sent by our government to Japanto endeavor to make a treaty for open trade between ourpeople and that country. The next year he succeeded insecuring from the Japanese government a treaty by whichcertain ports were rendered free of access to our diplomacy had secured for us what other nationshad been unable to Kansas-Nebraska Act. — Stephen A. Douglas, Dem-
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