1. CaliforniaPart 2 The Fight for Slavery in California by:James M. McPherson Megan Walsh History 141 Assignment 7

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The annexation of Texas in 1845 to the U.S & the conquest of the Mexican-American War reduced Mexico by half and increased the U.S by a third.

3. Congressman David Wilmot's Proviso: :neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory 4. This Priviso was blocked by the equal representation of the 15 free & 15 slave states due to southern senators. 5.

Utah, New Mexico & California were proslavery during the 1850's.

6. In 1848, gold flecks were discovered in the American River. 7. Word spread worldwide causing mass migaration & population growth. 8. Settlers in CA proposed a state constitution to be a free territory & included the ban of slavery because 49'ers wanted to avoid labor competition. 9. People of Importance

President James K. Polk

10. Senator Daniel Webster 11. John J. Crittenden: believed carrying slaves over to New Mexico or California was no great matter. 12. Senator Jefferson Davis: denounced the Californias fee state constitution seeing that admission of CA as the 16 thfree state would offset the balance of power against slave states in the Senate . 13. 1850: Southerners protested CA being a free state. 14. Slavery in California

Filibustering: a term referring to a pirate when CA became a free state and was unsuccessful to obtain another slave state.

15. .Repeal of the ban on slavery was the price that Senator Stephen Douglaas had to pay for Southern support of the territorial organization of Kansas and Nebraska. 16. California was free in 1849