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Westward Expansion Causes Conflict Over Slavery

Westward Expansion Causes Conflict Over Slavery. I. The Basic Problem. A. NOT the morality of slavery B. NOT slavery in the South. C. Free Soilers Oppose the Spread of Slavery to the West. -- Economic Reason: Land and Jobs for White Workers.

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Westward Expansion Causes Conflict Over Slavery

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  1. Westward Expansion Causes Conflict Over Slavery

  2. I. The Basic Problem A. NOT the morality of slavery B. NOT slavery in the South

  3. C. Free Soilers Oppose the Spread of Slavery to the West

  4. -- Economic Reason: Land and Jobs for White Workers

  5. -- Political Reason: The “Slave Power” and the 3/5 Clause

  6. II. Problem #1: California – Free, Slave or Two States?

  7. The Compromise of 1850: • CA = free state • Popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico

  8. No Slave Trade in Wash. DC

  9. Tougher Fugitive Slave Law

  10. III. Cuba – A Slave State?

  11. A. The Solution: The Ostend Manifesto -- take Cuba by $ or force

  12. B. The Result: manifesto leaked  northern criticism  no expansion into Caribbean

  13. IV. Problem #3: Nebraska Territory – Free or Slave?

  14. A. Stephen Douglas' Goal: Northern Transcontinental Railroad Route Through Illinois

  15. B. Make Nebraska & Kansas Two Separate Territories

  16. C. Popular Sovereignty Replaces the Missouri Compromise

  17. D. The Result: Violent Conflicts in Kansas, Congress, and around the Country

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