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What if President Zachary Taylor had watched what he ate in the summer and not gotten ill and died? President Taylor despite being a slaveowner was opposed to the Compromise of 1850 and wanted to admit California a free state. Indeed he threatened to crush the South if they rebelled. So what would be the effects?