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Western Lands and the Coming of the Civil War
Making the Avoidable Seem Inevitable, 1848-1861
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What to Do With Lands Acquired From Mexico As a Result of the Mexican War?
Slave or Free?
Who gets to decide?
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4 Basic Positions
• Let Congress Decide – Wilmot Proviso (Keep it out)– Divide territory (Missouri compromise
Precedent)
• Territories belong to all the citizens of all the states
• Popular Sovereignty• Let the Supreme Court decide
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1848 Election
Lewis Cass—Democrat—Popular Sovereignty
Zachary Taylor—Whig—divide territory/nationalism over sectional issue of slavery
Free Soilers—Martin Van Buren—keep slavery out of the territories
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Zachary Taylor
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1848 Election Results
• Taylor Won
• Van Burenites hurt Democrats in New York and Whigs in Ohio
• Democrats continued with popular sovereignty.
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1848 Election Results
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Gold Rush in California sped up process
California Petitioned for Admission as a free state
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Forging the Armistice of 1850
• Congress struggled to elect Speaker of House
• Taylor hoped to admit California and New Mexico as states quickly without dealing w/ issue of slavery in Territories.
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Clay’s Omnibus Proposal
• California admitted as a free state
• Remainder of Mexican Cession/no restrictions on slavery
• Little Texas• U. S. assumes Tx’s
debt
• No slave trade in D. C.• Slavery in D. C.• Stronger Fugitive
Slave Law• Congress can’t
interfere with interstate slave trade
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Henry Clay
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Great Debates
• Daniel Webster’s 7th of March Address
• Calhoun’s Valedictory
• Seward’s Higher Law Speech
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Valedictory of Great Triumvirate
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Making the Armistice
• No Votes for Omnibus bill
• Death of Zachary Taylor/Millard Filmore played more constructive role.
• Stephen Douglas engineered passage of 5 bills containing essence of Omnibus
• No real compromise.
• Fruits of Armistice exacerbated rather than ameliorated sectional tension
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Stephen Douglas
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Fruits of Armistice
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850– Furthered belief of
Slavepower conspiracy
– Northern interposition/Personal Liberty Laws
– Mobs rescued alleged runaways
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin– Made abstraction of
slavery personal to Romantic reading public
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Franklin Pierce Administration
• Democratic Dark Horse and “Doughface”– Appointed Southerners to key posts; these folk
appeared to pursue proslavery agenda– Ostend Manifesto
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Franklin Pierce/1852 Election
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Kansas Nebraska Act
• Stephen Douglas wanted Kansas Organized
• Needed Southern votes
• Agreed to overturn Missouri Compromise
• Popular Sovereignty seemed “democratic”
• Weakened Democrats in North; “Appeal of the Independent Democrats”
• Weakened Whigs in the South
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Major Significance of KNA
• Emergence of Republican Party
• “Bleeding Kansas”– Difficult to Organize Territory without added
burden of slavery– New England Emigrant Aid Society/Border
Ruffians– Sack of Lawrence—May 1856– Pottawatomie Creek Massacre—John Brown
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John Brown
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Impact of Bleeding Kansas
• Confirmed image of Lawless Southern slaveholders in Northern Mind
• Led to Sumner-Brooks Incident
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Sumner—Brooks Incident
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“Bleeding Sumner”
• Southerners think Sumner got what he deserved
• Northerners see Southerners as brutal barbarians
• Transformation of Northern Politics (Rise of Republican Party)
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Abraham Lincoln
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Rise of Republican Party
• American or Know Nothing Party was a dominant party in North and 2d to Democrats as National Party through May 1856
• Republicans ran 2d in 1856 Election—Bleeding Sumner made their anti-slavery message appealing
• Research done by William E. Gienapp
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1856 Election
• John Charles Fremont (Republican) crusaded against those “twin relics of barbarism—polygamy and slavery”
• James Buchanan—Doughface—popular sovereignty and nonintervention.
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1856 Election Map
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1857: The Year Everything Went Wrong
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Panic of 1857
• Lecompton Constitution
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Dred Scott
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Douglas won, but L.’s version of Anti-slavery made him extremely popular
• “In the right to eat the bread earned by the sweat of his brow, he is equal to me, to Judge Douglas, and to everyone else.”
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John Brown’s Raid
• A conspiracy to Arm Slaves in Rebellion
• Many Northerners thought Brown “will make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”
• Southerners especially fearful: “All northerners are abolitionists, and all abolitionists are John Browns.”
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1860 Presidential Election
• Charleston Convention divides Democrats/Federal Slave Code in Territories
• Northern Democrats nominate Douglas; Southern Democrats nominate Breckinridge
• Lincoln wins Republican nomination/no extension of slavery
• John Bell of Tennessee is Constitutional Unionist Candidate
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1860 Election Map
• Lincoln—180 Electoral Votes
• Douglas—12 elect. Votes
• Breckinridge—72 Electoral votes
• Bell—39 Electoral Votes
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Secession of Lower South
• South Carolina, followed by six other deep South states seceded before L. took office
• Why?– Internal Subversion thesis.
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Confederate States of America
• Established in Montgomery, Ala.
• Constitution based on U. S. Constitution
• Jefferson Davis/Alexander Stephens
• Emphasis on Right of Revolution and morality of slavery
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Buchanan/Compromise
• Buchanan took no provocative actions: Fort Pickens Truce and Fort Sumter standoff
• Crittenden Compromise failed
• House Committee of 33 proposed 13th amendment failed