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1850 Debate

1850 Debate. Henry Clay opposed extension of slavery, but was willing to let people in territory decide If Civil War, it would be long and bloody. Henry Clay “The Great Compromiser” KY. North must give to south “Peaceable Secession”. John C. Calhoun SC.

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1850 Debate

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  1. 1850 Debate

  2. Henry Clay opposed extension of slavery, but was willing to let people in territory decide If Civil War, it would be long and bloody Henry Clay “The Great Compromiser” KY

  3. North must give to south “Peaceable Secession” John C. Calhoun SC

  4. I come to you today not as a Massachusetts man…” Compromise needed “What is to remain American?” Bloody war Daniel Webster-MA

  5. There can be no compromise A higher law must be listened to Forefathers wouldn’t extend it William H. Seward (NY)

  6. THE COMPROMISE • CA free • Slave trade in DC ends • Utah & NM—popular sovereignty • Settle territorial issues with TX • Strong Fugitive Slave Act

  7. Statistics on the FSA • 1st 15 months of Fugitive Slave Act, 84 fugitives were returned to slavery—5 were released • For the entire decade of the 1850s the ratios was 332 to 11

  8. North Refuses to Obey FSA • Feb. 1851 slave Shadrach was saved by crowd of blacks—he escaped to Canada • April 1851—Thomas Sims • Arrested Boston • President Fillmore sent 250 soldiers to help 300 armed deputies enforce the law

  9. CAPTURE OF ANTHONY BURNS • May 24,1854 Burns was arrested. Boston abolitionists rallied to aid • Two separate groups met at the same time to discuss Burn's recapture: a large group, consisting mainly of white abolitionists, met at Fanueil Hall; • a smaller group, mostly blacks, met in the basement of the Tremont Temple.

  10. Statistics on the FSA • 1st 15 months of Fugitive Slave Act, 84 fugitives were returned to slavery—5 were released • For the entire decade of the 1850s the ratios was 332 to 11

  11. North Refuses to Obey FSA • Feb. 1851 slave Shadrach was saved by crowd of blacks—he escaped to Canada • April 1851—Thomas Sims • Arrested Boston • President Fillmore sent 250 soldiers to help 300 armed deputies enforce the law

  12. CAPTURE OF ANTHONY BURNS • May 24,1854 Burns was arrested. Boston abolitionists rallied to aid • Two separate groups met at the same time to discuss Burn's recapture: a large group, consisting mainly of white abolitionists, met at Fanueil Hall; • a smaller group, mostly blacks, met in the basement of the Tremont Temple.

  13. Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Romantic novel • Showed good and evil in all people • Showed how slavery was a prison for whites as well as blacks

  14. Ostend Manifesto • U.S. was thinking of seizing Cuba from Spain • Would be slave • SLAVE POWER—SMALL GROUP OF POWERFUL SOUTHERNERS INFLUENCING NATIONAL POLITICS

  15. John Brown and Pottawatomie Creek

  16. REPUBLICAN PARTY • Formed in reaction to Kansas Nebraska Act • Made up of former Democrats, Free-soilers, Whigs • 1856—Fremont was Republican presidential candidate(“Free Soil, Free Speech, and Fremont”) • Buchanan –Democrat (popular sovereignty)

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