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Compromise Of 1850

Age Of Crisis. Compromise Of 1850. Compromise Of 1850 California. Gold discovered in 1849 , mass exodus to California begins. Numerous immigrants, including Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese . California would push for statehood, bypassing the usual status as a territory.

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Compromise Of 1850

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  1. Age Of Crisis Compromise Of 1850

  2. Compromise Of 1850California • Gold discovered in 1849, mass exodus to California begins. • Numerous immigrants, including Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese. • California would push for statehood, bypassing the usual status as a territory. • Wants to enter as a free state. • Whites, already worried about the Asians, Native Americans, and Mexicans, do not want more competition for post-Gold Rush jobs. Poster For Passage To California, 1849 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/California_Gold_Rush_handbill.jpg

  3. Compromise Of 1850California • Congress has a problem. • 15 slave states, 15 free states, and the North holds a House majority of 61 votes. • Half of California rests below 36° 30´. Free & Slave States in 1846 http://www.amren.com/ar/1995/09/map.gif

  4. Compromise Of 1850Last Stand of Clay, Calhoun, Webster • The old sectional leaders square off one last time. • Clay would die in 1850, Calhoun and Webster in 1852. • All have basically the same goals: preserve the union without weakening the position of their individual regions. • Debates rage as the three try to keep the union together. Clay, Douglas, & The Fugitive Slave Act Within The Compromise of 1850 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16960/16960-h/images/356.jpg

  5. Compromise Of 1850The Proposal • California is to be admitted as a free state. • The rest of the Southwest is to be organized without mention of slavery. • Both sides see it as an opportunity for the future. • Compromise was written with the “charm of ambiguity.” • Texas-New Mexico border dispute is ended. California Gold Miners http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/willow/history-of-california0.gif

  6. Compromise Of 1850The Proposal Map Of U.S. After Compromise Of 1850 http://www.bhsonline.org/library/Teachers/kelleher/US%20History%20DBQs/Kansas-Nabraska%20Act%20Meagan%20Staffiere/kansas-nebraska%20dbq%20documents_files/image001.jpg

  7. Compromise Of 1850The Proposal • The federal government would assume Texan debt built up during its time of independence. • Continue to allow slavery in Washington, D.C., but ends slave trading in the area. • A new Fugitive Slave Act is to be set. Slave Auction http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/27/70527-004-C24BFDCB.jpg

  8. Compromise Of 1850New Sectional Leaders Emerge: North Stephen Douglas: “The Little Giant” http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/images/215.jpg William H. Seward http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/Seward250.jpg Charles Sumner http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/8e/230px-CSumner2.jpg

  9. Compromise Of 1850New Sectional Leaders Emerge: South Thomas Hart Benton http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(senator)_2.jpg/499px-Thomas_Hart_Benton_(senator)_2.jpg Jefferson Davis http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/hamill/hamill40.gif Robert Toombs http://www.portagepub.com/00-rsrc/graphics/Toombs.jpg

  10. Compromise Of 1850Opposition & Acceptance • Clay and Calhoun support the compromise wholeheartedly. • Webster, expected to resist, surprises Congress by delivering one of the greatest speeches in support of the compromise. • Webster sees it as the best chance at preserving the Union. • Webster is denounced by antislavery supporters in the North. Clay’s Speech In Support Of The Compromise Of 1850 http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Images/compromise.jpg

  11. Compromise Of 1850Opposition & Acceptance • Taylor opposes the compromise. • Despite owning slaves, sees the expansion of slavery as wrong. • July 4, 1850, attends a celebration, eats too much, and dies of gastroenteritis. • Millard Fillmore takes over. • Anything to preserve the Union. 13th POTUS Millard Fillmore http://truereligiondebate.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/president-fillmore-002.jpg

  12. Compromise Of 1850Opposition & Acceptance • Compromise would be pushed through Congress by Stephen Douglas. • Very much like Clay in 1820, would be able to get each section to pass it individually. • Only way to get the compromise passed was to introduce each aspect as a separate measure to obtain different majorities. Stephen Douglas http://www.lib.niu.edu/1999/ihy9902342.jpg

  13. Compromise Of 1850Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 • Allows the South to recover slaves from the North. • Becomes a rallying point for the North, who oppose Southern state laws extending into the North. • South believes that the North is not complying with the law. • Bitter feud erupts between individuals in the Senate and the House. 1851 Flier Warning Blacks Of The Fugitive Slave Law http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=82603&rendTypeId=4

  14. Compromise Of 1850Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 • Northerners resist, including many African-American leaders. • Frederick Douglass, usually mild-mannered, stated that the only way to make the fugitive slave law a “dead letter…was to make a few dead slave catchers.” Frederick Douglass http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/images/4fred16b.jpg

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