17-1,2 Differences

Obj. – Explain the attempts made at peace between the North and the South and why

they began to fail.

Why the Controversy?

States in the New Territories

Missouri Compromise applied to the Louisiana purchase, but what about the Mexican Cession?

New President - 1848

Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor - 1848

Supported by Whigs

Louisiana slave owner

Only opposition was from the Free Soil Party

What about Cali?

Calhoun threatens (again) that the South will secede

Call Henry Clay! – Now 73

Compromise of 1850

Cali is free Fugitive Slave Act Taylor is dead so

Millard Fillmore signs the bill

Fugitive Slave Act

Illegal to aid runaway slaves

Slave owners saw them as property

Ticked off Northerners

Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854 Stephen A. Douglas

– Senator from Illinois

Kansas and Nebraska would be open to Popular Sovereignty

Missourians can jump the border to Kansas to vote (Border Ruffians)

Abolitionism Grows 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

2. Dred Scott Decision – Chief Justice Roger Taney said slaves can’t sue in court

3. Bleeding Kansas – Brutal fighting between “free soilers” and “border ruffians”

John Brown Takes sons to Kansas to help the free soilers

Lawrence, KS- Ruffians kill free-soilers

At Pottawatomie Creek, Brown killed five border ruffians with swords in the night