Elected President!

Political donations are not as simple as donations. In the conventional sense, political donations, or campaign donations, are gratuitous support provided by supporters of presidential candidates to the candidates they support.

All citizens across the country can donate to candidates whose demands and political views align with their own and who they wish to win the election.

However, donations from ordinary people are usually only a few dollars, or even just a few cents.

Although many ordinary people across the country donate, the total amount donated by these ordinary people usually only accounts for a small part of the candidates' campaign funds; the real bulk comes from capitalists!

The political donations capitalists make to presidential candidates are not charitable donations, but rather an investment that is expected to yield returns.

After receiving political donations, candidates who come to power will repay the donors with political benefits, allowing the donors to profit.

In other words, the capitalists who provide large sums of money to presidential candidates all have their own demands, which the candidates need to fulfill after they are successfully elected.

This sudden, huge donation made Zachary Taylor somewhat uneasy, wondering what the donor's demands might be.

He told himself that if the other party's request violated the interests of citizens and the country, he would not agree even if he didn't want the funds.

Upon hearing Zachary Taylor's question, Tom met his probing and scrutinizing gaze and answered with neither servility nor arrogance.

"General Taylor, this money from our boss is not a political donation, but a gratuitous donation to support your presidential campaign, and there are no demands whatsoever."

Tom's words startled Zachary Taylor. He had considered all sorts of possible answers, but this was the one he hadn't thought of.

"Why?"

Zachary Taylor asked, puzzled.

Tom smiled slightly and looked at Zachary Taylor as he spoke slowly.

"Our boss said, thank you for taking care of Victor and James over the past two years."

"It's him!"

As the Whig Party had predicted, the Mexican-American War had just ended, and Zachary Taylor, the greatest hero of the war and a well-known war hero, had a huge influence on the public. Combined with the advantages mentioned earlier, the operation of the Whig Party's internal forces, and the large amount of campaign funds from New York, Zachary Taylor successfully defeated Lewis Cass and was elected as the twelfth president of the United States.

After taking office, Taylor's first task was to deal with the Cuba issue.

Southern slave owners in the United States had long coveted Cuba, viewing it as a new source of labor to supplement their slave workforce. President Polk even considered purchasing an island in Cuba from Spain.

In 1849, United States expansionists and slave-owning forces supported a Cuba adventurer in organizing an expedition near New Orleans to incite a rebellion in Cuba, with the intention of later annexing Cuba as a slave state into the United States.

President Taylor, fearing this would cause great turmoil at home, issued a proclamation on the Cuba issue on August 11, 1849, declaring that the United States government had a responsibility to uphold the treaty and prevent its citizens from invading the territory of friendly nations. He warned United States citizens against participating in illegal activities such as armed expeditions against Cuba.

The expedition's plans were thus thwarted and died in the womb.

This was Zachary Taylor's first confrontation with the power of the Southern plantation slave owners.

In fact, Zachary Taylor himself was also a member of the Southern plantation slave owners. From his own interests, he should have supported this incitement against Cuba, but slave owner was just one of his identities.

For the past forty years, he has spent most of his time in the army. The huge cotton plantation was just one of his properties, and he didn't put much effort into it. He was also far less harsh and cruel to his slaves than other slave owners.

Now that he is president, he must consider the national interest. The war against Mexico has just ended, and what should be done now is to digest the gains of this war, rather than greedily continuing to launch invasions. This is not good for the stability and development of the country. The only ones who will truly benefit are the Southern slave owners who desperately need a large number of slaves to expand their plantations.

Zachary Taylor's actions aroused dissatisfaction among some Southern plantation owners, who believed he had betrayed the South and sided with the Northerners.

At this time, Zachary Taylor faced another major problem.

Did the United States implement slavery in the newly acquired territories of California, New Mexico, Utah after the Mexican-American War?

The plantation slave owners in the United States South and the bourgeoisie in the North had long been engaged in a fierce struggle over the issue of slavery.

As early as 1790, in order to resolve interstate border disputes, the federal government drew the Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland. This line became the dividing line between the free states and slave states in the eastern United States after 1804.

North of this line were free states, where slavery was not permitted; south of it were slave states, where slavery was allowed.

By 1819, the United States had 22 states, half of which were slave states and half were free states. As a result, they had an equal number of seats in the Senate. The Southern plantation slave owners and the Northern bourgeoisie maintained a balance of political power and jointly controlled the direction of America's development and political decisions.

However, in 1819, the District of Missouri, which had a history of slavery since the French colonial period, applied to join the Union.

This led to a debate in Congress about whether Missouri should join the Union as a free state or a slave state.

Later that year, the northern region requested that a territory of Maine be separated to join the Union as a free state.

Finally, Congress reached the Missouri Compromise in 1820, which included Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in the Union, maintaining the "balance of power" in the Senate and setting the boundary between the free and slave states at 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude.

When Zachary Taylor became president, the northern states were experiencing a surge in anti-slavery sentiment.

The question of whether the vast new territories acquired after the Mexican-American War should be incorporated into the Union as slave states or as free states has become a significant factor in the escalating conflict between the North and the South.

The most pressing issue facing Zachary Taylor is the status of California versus New Mexico.

California's demand to join the Union as a free state and New Mexico's demand to become a territory where slavery was abolished immediately intensified the struggle between the North and the South.

Congress was also deeply divided on the issue of slavery, to the point that even the nomination of a gatekeeper required an investigation into his attitude toward slavery.