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5-16-13. C, D, E, F, A. Agenda. Finish Personal Liberty Laws Dred Scott v. Sanford Notes on Chapter 10, section 3 Homework: Chapter 10-3 guided reading. The Rise of the NEW Republican Party. Forerunners of the Republican Party. Liberty Party Abolitionist party formed in 1844
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5-16-13 C, D, E, F, A
Agenda • Finish Personal Liberty Laws • Dred Scott v. Sanford • Notes on Chapter 10, section 3 • Homework: Chapter 10-3 guided reading
Forerunners of the Republican Party • Liberty Party • Abolitionist party formed in 1844 • Not enough to be presidential hopeful • Free Soil Party • Opposed extension of slavery, not necessarily abolition • Disliked that slavery competed with white labor force • Did not win election of 1848, but enough to show North opposed expansion
Forerunners of the Republican Party • Whig Party collapses after split over Kansas-Nebraska Act • The Know Nothings • Nativists- • Anti-Immigrant • Anti-Catholic • Split over issue of slavery
Republican Party • Republican Party was formed on July 6, 1854 in Michigan, after local groups demanded new party • United over opposition to Kansas-Nebraska Act and keeping slavery out of territories • Included: • Free-Soilers • Antislavery Whigs • Democrats/Nativists from the North • Temperance supporters • Biggest competition – The Know Nothings because attracted the same voters.
Democratic Platform in 1856 • supported the compromise of 1850 • Opposed federal interference in slavery • Supported the building of the transcontinental railroad. • Democrats chose James Buchanan • “Kansasless”, as away in G.B. • Many Southern friends, although a Northerner
The Election of 1856 The Kansas controversy dominated the presidential election of 1856. The Democratic candidate was James Buchanan; the Republicans nominated John Frémont, and the American (the Know-Nothings) candidate was Millard Fillmore. Buchanan won the election for two reasons. Immigrant populations in the North were repelled by the Know-Nothings’ nativism, and the Democrats painted the Republicans as extremists on the slavery issue. As a result, Buchanan was the voters’ choice in both the North and the South. Frémont, however, won all the states of the Upper North.
Buchanan’s Presidency The Dred Scott decision • Buchanan supported popular sovereignty in his inaugural address, giving some hope that the crisis was past. • But two days later, the Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom with the argument that by living where slavery was illegal, he had become free. • Southerners saw the Dred Scott decision as a victory. • Northerners feared that slavery could now not be banned in any territory. Lecompton Constitution • This was the pro-slavery state constitution written at the Kansas constitutional convention in June 1857. • In supervised elections in October 1857, free-soilers won control of the legislature. • Pro-slavery leaders proposed the voters decide on a special provision on slavery. • If approved, slavery would be allowed. If defeated, importation of slaves would be banned, but slaves already in Kansas would remain enslaved.
Effects of Election of 1856 • Showed the following things • Democrats could win the presidency with a national candidate who could compete in the North without alienating Southerners • Know-Nothings and Whigs were in decline • Republicans were a political force in the North