LARGE POPULATION

FACTORIES

CITIES

IMMIGRANTS

ARGROCULTURAL PLANTATIONS

“KING COTTON”“THE COTTON KINGDOM”

MORE LAND, MORE

SLAVES 50% OF ALL

EXPORTS (1840)

SLAVES LIVED IN FAMILY UNITS = CHILDREN

COMMINUTY ENCOURAGE = LESS REBELLION

EXTREMELY VALUABLE $1,200

GOOD MEDICAL TREATMENT

MOST WORKED IN COTTON FIELDS (10-12 HOURS A DAY)

SLAVE CODES

NO FREEDOM – SOLD – BROKEN FAMILIES –PUNISHED – NO LAST NAME – HARD WORK –

NO CULTURE

ABOLITION: TO END SLAVERY

NO SLAVES IN NORTH AFTER 1800

QUAKERS IN P.A. START CAMPAIGN AGAINST SLAVERY

FORMS ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY

WRITES “THE LIBERATOR”

FREE THE SLAVES BY “WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY!”

NO PLAN NEEDED JUST FREE THEM NOW!

FORMER SLAVE

MAKES A STRONG IMPRESSION

ABOUT HIS LIFE

TOURS THE NORTH LECTURING

HELP SLAVES ESCAPE TO CANADA

PROBLEMS WITH SLAVERY

NORTH CONTROLS THE HOUSE

SENATE = NORTH (11), SOUTH (11)

MISSOURI WANTS TO BE ADMITTED AS A SLAVE STATE

THIS WOULD UPSETTHE BALANCE IN

THE SENATE!

DEBATED IN CONGRESS

TALLMADGE: NO SLAVERY IN LA PURCHASE-CONGRESS EXPLODES

CLAY COMPROMISES:

MISSOURI & MAINE+ 36’ 30” LINE

LOYALTY TO ONE’S STATE OR SECTION RATHER THAN THE

ENTIRE NATION

SOUTH SEES NORTH AS A THREAT TO THEIR WAY

OF LIFE

NORTH SEES SOUTH AS ALMOST LIKE ANOTHER COUNTRY-ABOLITION MOVEMENT IS GROWING

SUGGESTED BANNING SLAVERY IN THE

NEW TERRITORIES

MISSOURI COMPROMISE ONLY APPLIES TO

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

MANY NORTHERNERS OPPOSED MEXICAN WAR –

SOUTH WANTS TO SPREAD SLAVERY

PASSES IN HOUSE – FAILS IN SENATE

DAVID WILMONT (PA)

SOME SAY MISSOURI COMPROMISE SHOULD

BE EXTENED WEST

OTHERS CALL FOR POPULAR SOVERNIGNTY: PEOPLE IN THE

TERRITORY WILL VOTE TO DECIDE IF

THEY WILL BE A SLAVE OR A FREE STATE

POLITICAL PARTY FOUNDED IN 1848 – KEEP SLAVERY OUT OF MEXICAN CESSION –

BELIEVED IN WILMONT PROVISO

“FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LAND, FREE MEN”

FEDREAL AID FOR INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS – FREE LAND

POLK DOES NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION

LEWIS CASS

DEMOCRAT

POPULAR SOVERNIGNTY

ZACHARY TAYLOR

WHIG

NO PLATFORM: WAR HERO

FREE SOIL

MARTIN VAN BUREN

WHIG

TAYLOR

WAR HERO

CASS

DEMOCRAT

DID NOT KNOWREALLY HOW TO BE

PRESIDENT

NO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE,OR SOPHISTICATION

COMMON, ORDINARY, WARMHEARTED