During this year’s “Great Demonstration” in New York, orators recited songs and poems in French, Italian, and German. Craft workers nicknamed for this year spread the Louisville Platform to combat the rise of a political movement responsible for electoral violence on Bloody Monday. This is the first year covered in David Potter’s The Impending Crisis. An author’s claim that territorial concessions finalized in this year “will poison us” bolstered the argument of the “Spot” Resolutions. Barnburners left the Democratic Party in this year over opposition to a treaty negotiated by Nicholas Trist. A popular sovereignty proponent from Michigan lost this year’s presidential election to a war hero nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready.” For 10 points, in what year did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo end the Mexican–American War? ■END■
ANSWER: 1848 [prompt on ’48 or the Forty-Eighters] (Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that “Mexico will poison us.”)
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