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Popular Sovereignty

Popular Sovereignty. New way to decide if new states was going to be free or slave. Let the people of the state decide not congress (so house and senate wouldn’t matter) Seemed the most Jacksonian . Allowed those running for president to not have to declare their stance

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Popular Sovereignty

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  1. Popular Sovereignty • New way to decide if new states was going to be free or slave. • Let the people of the state decide not congress (so house and senate wouldn’t matter) • Seemed the most Jacksonian. Allowed those running for president to not have to declare their stance • Argument is now between states

  2. Compromise of 1850 • A. 49ers made Cali ready to become a free state. • B. Utah and NM about ready • C. South mad that fugitive slaves were not being returned.(and nervous that states would vote against slavery)

  3. Compromise • California in as free • PS used in NM and Utah • New strict national fugitive slave laws • Slave trading but not slavery banned in DC • --next thing is a cause! • --FSA: private citizens required to aid in the apprehension of runaway slaves • How might this make northerners feel?

  4. Big issues Slaveryto Civil war

  5. Fugitive slave act and personal liberty • FSA forced northerners to become “involved” in slavery • They also didn’t like the federal government forcing them to be involved • Personal liberty laws were passed. Nullified FSA and allowed states to arrest slave returners for kidnapping. • Southerners lose their part of the compromise

  6. Underground RR • Not a RR—Not underground • “conductors” ran it (stations were houses, lines were trails etc) • Harriet Tubman a conductor • It was a system of “paths” to free states

  7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Tom a Sympathetic Character. • Made slaves seem like“real” people. • Opened the eyes of many to the evils of slavery • *Has turned into a slur because Tom was subservient even though his master was mean so it means you aren't standing up for yourself (like Sam Jack in Jango)

  8. Kansas Nebraska Act • A. Another Compromise • B. Nebraska a big northern territory. • C. Pop sov would decide. • D. South didn’t like this so created a new State, Kansas that would be slave (if it voted for it) • BTW big if

  9. Bleeding Kansas • Called Bleeding due to the blood shed • Border ruffians would try to sway votes with intimidation and violence • People would move to Kansas Just to vote • Abolitionist John Brown, With his sons and friends executed 5 pro-slavery settlers • Both sides arm for battle • Similar to Lexington and Concord

  10. Whigs out. Republicans in • *Fillmore, the last Whig pres, angered the South with his support of Cali’s entry as a free state • *Northerners, angered at his support of the Fugitive slave act and Pop Sov left the Whigs in great numbers, • *Opposition to slavery was the new Republican party platform • *Fremont runs on this Rep platform in 56 and loses • So……what does this say about the slavery issue?

  11. Dred Scott/Taney • *Scott was a slave who’s owner had brought him to a free state • *He sued for his freedom • The case went to the Supreme court • *Chief Justice Taney ruled against scott • *Slaves were property not citizens so they had no right to sue • *No African could be a citizen • *Congress could not ban slavery because doing so would take away property” without due process • *This decision was very polarizing

  12. Lincoln –Douglas debate • For a senate seat • Douglas: Backed Pop Sov. So states could have slaves if that is what people wanted • Lincoln: “eternal struggle between right and wrong” . Called slavery wrong • Douglas won the Senate seat

  13. Harpers Ferry *John Brown believed he was an angel of God avenging the evil of slavery *He believed that violence was the best way to achieve this goal . *Seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in order to have arms to start a revolution *No one joined him (including blacks) *He was captured and executed by federal troops *This “turned up the heat” on the slavery debate and the ways and means to eliminate or keep it

  14. Book work AT ticket P 324 • 1. why might the North not want to abolish slavery? Please list 2 major things from 325 • 2. Compare 328: 1 and 2 • 3. critically 332: 1 and 2 • 4. Map 335: 1a, 1b, 1c, and 2 • 5. Comprehension 337: 1 make a t chart • 6. Critical 337: 4,(each is a different answer) 5, 6 (embody means represent)

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