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disunion

disunion. The Compromise California = free state Mexican Cession = Utah and New Mexico w/pop.sovereignty Texas western border and debts settled Slave trade ends in D.C. Fugitive Slave Act Taylor NO but Fillmore YES. Fugitive Slave Law. South’s part of Comp. of 1850

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  1. disunion

  2. The Compromise • California = free state • Mexican Cession = Utah and New Mexico w/pop.sovereignty • Texas western border and debts settled • Slave trade ends in D.C. • Fugitive Slave Act • Taylor NO but Fillmore YES

  3. Fugitive Slave Law • South’s part of Comp. of 1850 • Aka. “Bloodhound Bill” and “Man Stealing Law” • Fed. Commissioners … warrants, posses, compel citizens to aid in capture (fine or imprisonment) • Comm. paid $5 if freed $10 sent … • No jury or testify in own defense

  4. Reaction … • Clay gets credit for saving Union! • Underground Railroad heats up • Boston … “went to bed…old fashion, conservative, compromise Union Whigs waked and waked stark mad Abolitionists!” • Personal liberty laws • Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  5. How much of a difference? • William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator 1831 • “I am in earnest …I will be heard.” • American Colonization Society (1816) … Liberia … • 1840 …93% northern free blacks legally disenfranchised • The more escaping North brought increasing white fear and racism. • So importance of Stowe’ writing?

  6. expansionism • For Country or the South? • William Walker’s escapades • 1850 Clayton-Bulwar Treaty • Ostend Manifesto • Perry and Japan 1852

  7. Kansas-Nebraska act 1854 • Stephen Douglas is “the Little Giant” • Transcontinental RR • Gadsden Purchase • LA Territory=2 parts • Nebraska&Kansas • Popular sovereignty

  8. Bleeding Kansas • New England Emigrant Aid Co. • 1860 census 2slaves/107,000 KN • 1855 Missouri Border Ruffians • 2 governments • Topeka • Lecompton …Constitution “with or without” vote • Democrats split

  9. 1856 Lawrence Massacre • Beecher’s Bibles • John Brown • Pottawatomie Creek • “bleeding Congress” • Charles Sumner’s • “Crime Against Kansas” speech • Preston Brooks

  10. 1856 election • Dems look for someone kansasless • James Buchanan #15 • Vs. Republican (free soil not abolitionists) John Fremont • Vs. Know-Nothings’ Fillmore (WASPs)

  11. Dred Scott v Sanford • 1857 • Since he was a slave … he was not a citizen … hence he could not file lawsuit • Slave is property (5th amend) • Congress could NOT outlaw slavery in a territory … only state legislature could

  12. Lincoln – Douglas Debates • 1858 Illinois US Senate election • Douglas, seasoned national pol. • Lincoln, lackluster pol. career • “House Divided Speech” • Freeport Doctrine • Finally the issues debated but …

  13. Harpers Ferry • 1859 • VA (now W.VA) • Federal arsenal • Disastrous failure • Trial= insanity? = guilty = hung = martyrdom • South appalled

  14. 1860 Election • Dems split completely • John Breckinridge (KY) S • Stephen Douglas (IL) N • Republican Abe Lincoln • Constitutional Union Party John Bell (TN)

  15. Worst Case Scenerio • Population the key • Perceptions vs. reality • SC’s “duty” call • Crittendon Compromise last chance • Secession begins, Dec. 20, 1860 • Feb., ’61 Jeff Davis “President”

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