GIGLIOTTI PRESENTS:

1. GIGLIOTTI PRESENTS: ROAD TO CIVIL WAR! A MULTI-MEDIA SPECTACULAR!

2. COMPROMISE OF 1850 QUESTION: SHOULD SLAVERY BE LEGAL IN THE MEXICAN CESSION? CALIFORNIA WANTS TO ENTER THE UNION AS A FREE STATE - UNBALANCE IN THE SENATE – SECESSION? SEVEN MONTH DEBATE IN THE SENATE

3. THE DEBATE THE OLD GUARD’S (CLAY, CALHOUN, WEBSTER) LAST HURRAH CLAY SUGGESTS A COMPROMISE – MAKES OVER 70 SPEECHES -”NATURE ON YOUR SIDE” WEBTALK CALHOUN TOO SICK TO READ OWN STATEMENTS –” LET SOUTH SECEED” DIES DURINGTHE DEBATE – WEBSTER SUPPORTS CLAY – (SOUND) SEWARD - “GOD’S MORAL RIGHT TO ABOLISH SLAVERY!”

4. COMPROMISE TAYLOR AGREES WITH SEWARD – THREATENS TO VETO THE BILL – TEXAS THREATENS TO MARCH ON SANTA FE! TAYLOR DIES SUDDENLY – MILLARD FILLMORE BECOMES PRESIDENT & SIGNS THE BILL

5. PARTS OF THE COMPROMISE 1. CALIFORNIA ENTERS AS A FREE STATE 2. ABOLISH SLAVE TRADE IN D.C. 3. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW – NORTH MUST HELP CAPTURE RUNAWAY SLAVES & RETURN THEM TO THE SOUTH 4. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN TERRITORIES 5. TEXAS PAID $10 FOR BORDER DISPUTE

6. END OF AN ERA GOOD BYE TO OLD FRIENDS

7. MILLARD FILLMORE GOOD PRESIDENTIAL QUALITIES, BUT MAKES BAD DISICIONS ABOUT FILLMORE ANTI-SLAVERY WHIG PARTY SPLITS IN HALF NORTH & SOUTH

8. NORTHERN VIEWS STRONG UNIFIED NATION OF ECONOMIC & MORAL PROGRESS ACHIEVED BY FREE MEN LAND OF COMMERCE, ENTERPRISE, EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY INDIVIDUALISM, EQUALITY, MORALITY, SMALL TOWN VALUES REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT - OTHERS

9. SOUTHERN VIEWS SOCIAL VALUES – COURTEOUS, REFINED, GENTEEL SOCIETY DEOMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT BASED ON LOCAL CONTROL AND STATES’ RIGHTS PERSONAL INCOME 15% HIGHER THAN IN NORTH WITH 35% OF THE POPULATION – 15% OF THE INDUSTRY

10. ELECTION OF 1852 PIERCE DEMOCRAT SCOTT WHIG PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF 1850 & FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF 1850

11. THE CAMPAIGN PIERCE MEXICAN WAR GENERAL “A HERO OF MANY WELL FOUGHT BATTLES!” TAYLOR DISLIKES COMPROMISE

12. ELECTION RESULTS SCOTT WHIG PIERCE DEMOCRAT WHIG PARTY DYING

13. FRANKLIN PIERCE “HANDSOME FRANK” FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE, BUT PRO-SOUTH WIFE HATES POLITICS EXPANSIONIST “SLAVEOCRATS” JEFFERSON DAVIS

14. FOREIGN POLICY AMERICA IS A MODEL OF FREEDOM ADMIRAL PERRY IN JAPAN CONTINUE MANIFEST DESTINY INTO SOUTH AMERICA?

15. OSTED MANIFESTO USA ATTEMPS TO BUY CUBA – PERFECT FOR PLANTATIONS SPAIN REFUSES MEETING IN EUROPE – BETWEEN U.S. MINISTERS – SPAIN SHOULD SELL CUBA OR USA CAN SPONCER REVOLUTION EVEN INVADE! NORTH & EUROPEUPSET

16. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN BOOK DEPICTING THE LIFE OF AN ESCAPING SLAVE WITH A CRUEL MASTER HARRIET BEECHER STOW BEST SELLER (300,000 SOLD) MANY NORTHERNERS START TO DISOBEY THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW AFTER READING THE BOOK HATED IN THE SOUTH

17. KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT PROPOSED BY DOUGLAS – WANTS THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WITH NORTHERN ROUTE – MONEY ACT SETS UP TWO TERRITORIES WITH POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY DOUGLAS THINKS CLIMATE WILL PREVENT THESE SOON TO BE STATES FROM CHOOSING SLAVERY PIERCE SUPPORTS BILL – NORTHERN WHIGS DISLIKE BILL –DESTROYS WHIG PARTY SOUND

18. REPUBLICAN PARTY 108 MEMBERS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1854 PLATFORM 1. SLAVERY – MORAL, SOCIAL, & POLITICAL EVIL 2. REPEAL KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT 3. AGAINST THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY

19. BATTLE FOR KANSAS RACE TO SETTLE KANSAS (IOWA & MISSOURI) NORTH FREE SOILERS SEND PEOPLE FROM NEW ENGLAND 1854- KANSAS ELECTS PROSLAVERY CONGRESSMEN & LEGISLATURE – 6,000 VOTES ONLY 2,000 RESIDENTS - PIERCE INVESTIGATES BUT DOES NOTHING! KANSAS HAS TWO GOVERNMENTS SLAVE (LECOMPTON) & FREE (TOPEKA)

20. BLEEDING KANSAS BOTH SIDES RECRUIT MEN TO FIGHT FIGHTING RESULTS IN OVER 200 DEATHS NEW GOVERNER WITH FEDERAL TROOPS KANSAS CONTINUES TO BE DESTOYED! PRECURSER TO CIVIL WAR

21. VIOLANCE IN THE SENATE KANSAS DEBATE HEATS UP IN CONGRESS SEN. SUMNER (ABOLITIONIST) GIVES “CRIMES AGAIST KANSAS” SPEECH – SOUTH FEELS INSULTED SUMNER BROOKS SEN. BUTLER’S NEPHEW BEATS SUMNER WITH A CANE ON THE SENATE FLOOR!