17-1,2 differences obj. – explain the attempts made at peace between the north and the south and...
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17-1,2 Differences
Obj. – Explain the attempts made at peace between the North and the South and why
they began to fail.
Why the Controversy?
States in the New Territories
Missouri Compromise applied to the Louisiana purchase, but what about the Mexican Cession?
New President - 1848
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor - 1848
Supported by Whigs
Louisiana slave owner
Only opposition was from the Free Soil Party
What about Cali?
Calhoun threatens (again) that the South will secede
Call Henry Clay! – Now 73
Compromise of 1850
Cali is free Fugitive Slave Act Taylor is dead so
Millard Fillmore signs the bill
Fugitive Slave Act
Illegal to aid runaway slaves
Slave owners saw them as property
Ticked off Northerners
Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854 Stephen A. Douglas
– Senator from Illinois
Kansas and Nebraska would be open to Popular Sovereignty
Missourians can jump the border to Kansas to vote (Border Ruffians)
Abolitionism Grows 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
2. Dred Scott Decision – Chief Justice Roger Taney said slaves can’t sue in court
3. Bleeding Kansas – Brutal fighting between “free soilers” and “border ruffians”
John Brown Takes sons to Kansas to help the free soilers
Lawrence, KS- Ruffians kill free-soilers
At Pottawatomie Creek, Brown killed five border ruffians with swords in the night