Post on 02-Jan-2016
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Economic Differences in North and South
SouthAgricultureSlaveryWealthySmall
Population
NorthManufacturingAnti-SlaveryMore even
Distribution of income
Larger Population
Wilmot Proviso
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in any territory the United States might acquire as a result of the war with Mexico.”
Simply that California, Utah, and New Mexico would be admitted to the Union as free States
The Senate begins to debate the admission of these states
as free states.
End result is that the southern states begin screaming
secession.
Compromise of 1850
Clay’s Compromise
Admitted California as a free state
More effective fugitive slave law
Popular Sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act
Declared open season on all slaves in the north
Policeman were given a free hand in returning slaves as fugitive, whether they were or not.
Northern states passed Personal Liberty Laws
Harriet Tubman
Initiated the underground Railroad
Soon other blacks and whites were conductors of the railroad
Ex slave who was severely beaten
Compare
The Missouri Compromise (Slide A), Compromise of 1850(Slide B) and the Kansas-Nebraska
Act(Slide C)
1st was the Sack of Lawrence
Thousands of Border ruffians swept into Kansas and voted to admit slavery. A posse of about 800 men went in and burned the antislavery headquarters to the ground
2nd was the “Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown caught wind of the sack of Lawrence and Decided that God had sent him to rid the world of slavery
John Brown
Anti slavery Fanatic Called by God Bleeding Kansas Fled the territory Caught and Hanged
at Harper’s Ferry
Whig Party split
Whigs Opposed
Fugitive Slave Act
Lukewarm support to the Compromise of 1850
Know Nothing Party Nativism Order of the Star
Spangled Banner Fence riders
Formation of Political PartiesPARTY ESTABLISHED PLATFORMS
Free Soil 1848 Anti extension of slavery
Pro Labor
Know Nothing 1854 (American Party)
Anti-Immigration
Anti-Catholic
Whig 1834 Pro-business
Divided on Slavery
Republican 1854 Opposed expansion of slavery into territories
Democratic 1840 (Democratic-Republican)
States Rights
Limited Government
Divided on slavery
Dred Scott Slave from Missouri Owner moved to free
state Scott believed he
should be free Owner moved back to
slave state and took Scott with him
Court ruled in favor of owner, slaves did not have the same rights as citizens