... primary forms of entertainment were gambling and alcohol. Although Taylor wanted to give statehood to California and New Mexico, these two territories got ahead of him, and had free-states government in operation. On December 4, 1849, Taylor endorsed immediate statehood for California. In January 1850, Clay once again took the role of "Great Compromiser", and presented a package of eight resolutions ... looked more like a "Northern man with Southern principles". Cuba, one of Spain's earliest and one of its last possessions was now an object of desire by Americans. In 1854, the Cuban cri...

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... Havana, Cuba. This abduction violated all of the treaties then in existence. Fifty-three Africans were purchased by two Spanish planters and put aboard the Cuban schooner Amistad for shipment to a Caribbean plantation. On July 1, 1839, the Africans seized the ship, killed the captain and the cook, and ... Cuba. However, abolitionists in the North opposed extradition and raised money to defend the Africans. Claims to the Africans by the planters, the government of Spain, and the captain of the brig led the case to trial in the Federal District Court in Connecticut. The court ruled that .....

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