Political contributions are not as simple as donations, in a conventional sense, political contributions, that is, campaign contributions, are the unpaid support provided by supporters of presidential candidates to the candidates they support.

All citizens of the country can donate to candidates who share their aspirations and political views and want him to succeed in his election.

However, the average person's donation is usually a few dollars, or even only a few cents.

Although there are many ordinary people in the country who donate, the total amount of donations from these ordinary people usually accounts for only a small part of the candidates' campaign funds, and the real lion's share comes from the capitalists!

The political contributions of capitalists to presidential candidates are not charitable contributions, but an act of investment, which is intended to be rewarded.

After the candidate receives the political donation, he will return the political benefits to the financier after taking office, so that the financier can benefit.

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

And this sudden huge donation made Zachary Taylor feel a little dignified, not knowing what the other party would want.

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

Hearing Zachary Taylor's inquiry, Tom met his inquiring gaze and replied with a look of neither humility nor arrogance.

"General Taylor, this money from our boss is not a political donation, but a gratuitous donation to support your candidacy for president, and there is no demand."

Tom's words made Zachary Taylor stunned, he thought of all possible answers, but he didn't think of this one.

"Why?"

Zachary Taylor asked confusedly.

Tom smiled slightly, looked at Zachary Taylor and said slowly.

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

"It's him!"

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In the end, things turned out as the Whigs thought, the Mexican-American War had just passed, and the biggest hero of the entire war, the well-known war hero Zachary Taylor, had a huge influence in the eyes of the people, coupled with the advantages mentioned earlier, the operation of the Whig Party's internal forces, and the combination of this large amount of campaign money from New York, Zachary Taylor successfully defeated Lewis Cass and was successfully elected as the twelfth president of the United States.

When Taylor came to power, he first dealt with the Cuban issue.

Southern American slave owners had long coveted Cuba as a new source of replenishment of slave labor, and President Polk had wanted to buy an island from Spain.

In 1849, southern expansionists and slave-owning forces supported a Cuban adventurer in organizing an expedition near New Orleans to sedition rebellion in Cuba in preparation for annexing Cuba as a slave state to the United States.

President Taylor, fearing that this would cause great controversy in the country, issued a proclamation on 11 August 1849 on the question of Cuba, declaring the duty of the United States Government to abide by treaties and to prevent its citizens from encroaching on the territory of friendly countries, and warning American citizens not to participate in the illegal activities of the armed expedition against Cuba.

The expedition's plans collapsed and the fetus was stillborn.

This was the first time Zachary Taylor had faced the Southern Plantation Slavers.

In fact, Zachary Taylor himself was actually one of the slave owners of the southern plantations, and for his own interests, he should have supported this incitement against Cuba, but the slave owners were only one of his identities.

He spent most of his time in the army for more than forty years, and the huge cotton plantation was just one of his inheritances, and he didn't bother too much to treat his slaves, and he was far less harsh and cruel than other slave owners.

Now that he has become president, he has to consider from the level of national interests, the war against Mexico has just ended, and what should be done now is to digest the harvest of this war, instead of greedily continuing to launch aggression, which is not good for the stability and development of the country, and the real benefits are only these southern slave owners in the south who urgently need a large number of slaves to expand the scale of the plantation.

Zachary Taylor's actions caused discontent among some southern plantation owners, who believed that he had betrayed the South and taken refuge with the northerners.

At this time, Zachary Taylor is facing another big problem.

After the war with Mexico, whether the newly acquired lands of California, New Mexico, Utah and other lands in the United States were subject to slavery.

The southern plantation slave owners and the northern bourgeoisie had a long and fierce struggle over the question of slavery.

As early as 1790, in order to settle the interstate border dispute, the federal government drew a Mayson-Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland, which became the boundary between the free states and slave states in the eastern United States after 1804.

To the north of this line are free states, where slavery is not allowed; To the south is a slave-owning state, where slave-keeping is allowed.

By 1819, there were 22 states in the United States, of which the slave states and the free states were equally numerous, so they also had equal seats in the Senate, and the southern plantation slave owners and the northern bourgeoisie maintained a balance of political power, and jointly controlled the direction of American development and political decision-making.

But in 1819, the District of Missouri, which had already been in slavery since the French period, applied for membership.

A dispute arose within Congress over whether Missouri should join the Union as a free state or as a slave state.

At the end of the same year, the Northern Territories requested that a Maine territory be annexed to the Union as a free state.

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

Zachary Taylor's presidency came at a time when anti-slavery sentiment was running high in the northern states.

Whether the large tracts of new land acquired after the Mexican-American War were joined to the Union as slave states or as free states became an important factor in the widening of the conflict between the North and the South.

Zachary Taylor's most pressing issue is the status of California and New Mexico.

California's demands to join the Union as a free state, and New Mexico's demands to become a slave-free territory, immediately heated up the struggles between the North and the South.

Congress was similarly bickered and divided on the issue of slavery, and even the selection of a guard to guard the gate had to investigate his attitude towards slavery.