Carefully examine the various political parties running candidates in the election of 1852. How do their various platforms point to what would ultimately become the U. S. Civil War in the following decade?

The compromise of 1850

Explanation:

The election of 1852 must be seen in the light of the compromise of 1850 which enforced the Fugitive Slave Law. That is to say, the election was overshadowed by the north-south division on the subject of slavery that ultimately led to the U.S. Civil War. The two major candidates, Franklin Pierce, democratic, and Winfield Scott, from the Whig party, were quite alike in their political views, so the election became a contest of personalities.

The Whigs, though, were very much divided between their Northern and Southern wings; Scott´s anti-slavery reputation damaged his campaign in the South. The fact that a group of Southern Whigs and a separate group of Southern Democrats nominated their own tickets, makes it clear that the country was divided.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)