ch.18: renewing the sectional struggle 1848-1854
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Ch.18:Renewing the Sectional Struggle
1848-1854
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C. Election of 1848
Taylor (W) Van Buren (FS) Cass (Dem.)
Whigs and Democrats don’t ever talk about slavery on the campaign trail!
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B. Gold & the ‘49ers!
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Gold & the ‘49ers!
1. Life was hard!a. Violentb. discrimination
2. Rarely “struck it rich”
3. Providing for the miners = money maker
4. Big business dominate
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Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850 California Statehood Southern “fire-eaters:”
those who threaten secession
Do not want compromise
Underground RR and fugitive slave issues Personal liberty laws –
federal agents not able to use local prisons as a way to hamper enforcement
Slave catchers efforts increase
Harriet Tubman
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Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850
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Compromise of 1850
1. California free state2. Popular sovereignty for
rest of territories3. Fugitive Slave Laws
strictly enforced – “Bloodhound Bill”
denied jury and testimonial on their own behalf
Northerners had to return runaways; furious
4. Slave trade, not slavery, abolished in D.C.
5. Disputed territory by NM and Tx goes to NM
6. Tx paid $10M
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Fugitive Slave Law1. Federal support to
capture escaped slaves = Free AA move to Canada
2. Blacks not allowed to testify on their own behalf in court
3. Gave slave owners more power
4. North’s view: law reinforced that slavery was morally wrong
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1852 Presidential Election1852 Presidential Election
√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale
Democrat Whig Free Soil
√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale
Democrat Whig Free Soil
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1852Electio
n Results
1852Electio
n Results
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Election of 1852
Winfield Scott (Whig)
vs.
Franklin Pierce (Dem)
Northern Dem.Irish and German vote for Pierce via “Boss” Tweed
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Manifest Destiny under Pres. Pierce(‘53-’56)
1. Annexation of Cuba a. Ostend Manifesto
Secrete plan to acquire Cuba from Spain since they wouldn’t sell
Never happened due to abolitionist protest
2. Matthew Perry Negotiates trade with Japan
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty 1850
Stipulated that the United States nor the
British will try to position themselves for the purpose of
colonization or canal
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
1. Northern states want the TRR = Need support of Southerners =
2. Allows for popular sovereignty
3. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820
4. Leads to “Bleeding Kansas”
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“Bleeding Kansas”“Bleeding Kansas”
Border “Ruffians”
(pro-slavery
Missourians)
Border “Ruffians”
(pro-slavery
Missourians)
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“Squatters sovereignty”
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What happens to the idea of “compromising” after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise of
1820?