PLEASE HELP! Why did Southern states feel betrayed by President Zachary Taylor? He wanted popular sovereignty for new states, an
d Southerners did not trust their votes. He was from the South, and Southerners thought he should support their cause. He was from the South, and Southerners thought he favored California over his home state. He was a slaveholder, but did not want to bring his enslaved workers to California.
Southern states felt betrayed by President Zachary Taylor because he pushed for the 1850 Compromise on slavery, going against what his fellow southerners believed in.
