lecture 3, monday september 17: slavery’s westward threat regional tensions develop over politics...
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Lecture 3, Monday September 17: Slavery’s Westward Threat
Regional Tensions develop over Politics & Economics of SlaveryMissouri Compromise –1820
Tallmadge Amendment / Then ?s about role of slavery in future growth
Regional Tensions Grow over Question of Slavery’s Expansion WestTexas – American Slaveholders Move there – create problems for Mexico TX Independence in 1836, joins the US? – 1845, US War with MX 1846-68 Question of Slavery in Lands Won from Mexico : Options
Wilmot Proviso – Free SoilersCalhoun & 5th AmendmentPopular / Squatter Sovereignty [Lewis Cass]
Compromise of 1850
-admitted CA as a free state-status of slavery in rest of this territory decided by popular sovereignty
-upheld slavery in DC but abolished slave trade there-more effective Fugitive Slave Law
--Use of federal marshals --Burden on northernersHarriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action
Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854Consequences -- more conflict, bloodshed [to be continued]
Politics Matters, especially Partisan Politics! so says Michael Holt
• If cotton had not become the premier cash crop, would sectionalism have been a problem in the United States?
• If US territory had remained bound to the eastern side of the Mississippi River, would sectionalism have intensified?
• It Texas had remained outside of the US, would that have altered the course of events?
• If the US had not gone to war with Mexico, would the North and South have become so diatremically opposed to one another around one issue?
Lecture 3, Monday September 17: Slavery’s Westward Threat
Regional Tensions develop over Politics & Economics of SlaveryMissouri Compromise –1820
Tallmadge Amendment / Then ?s about role of slavery in future growth
Regional Tensions Grow over Question of Slavery’s Expansion WestTexas – American Slaveholders Move there – create problems for Mexico TX Independence in 1836, joins the US? – 1845, US War with MX 1846-68 Question of Slavery in Lands Won from Mexico : Options
Wilmot Proviso – Free SoilersCalhoun & 5th AmendmentPopular / Squatter Sovereignty [Lewis Cass]
Compromise of 1850
-admitted CA as a free state-status of slavery in rest of this territory decided by popular sovereignty
-upheld slavery in DC but abolished slave trade there-more effective Fugitive Slave Law
--Use of federal marshals --Burden on northernersHarriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action
Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854Consequences -- more conflict, bloodshed [to be continued]
David Wilmot1846- Wilmot Proviso
“…as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico . . . neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory.”
“When territory presents itselffor annexation with slaveryalready established, I standready to take it….I will not change itsinstitutions, then. I make no war upon the South. I have no squeamish sensitiveness on the subject of slavery –no morbid sympathy for the slave. ButI stand for the integrity of the territory. It shall remain free, so far as my voiceand vote can aid in the preservation ofits free character.”
Free Soil Position:
The spread ofslavery intothe west?
--- an issue around which abolitionists and Free Soilers can unite.
Lecture 3, Monday September 17: Slavery’s Westward Threat
Regional Tensions develop over Politics & Economics of SlaveryMissouri Compromise –1820
Tallmadge Amendment / Then ?s about role of slavery in future growth
Regional Tensions Grow over Question of Slavery’s Expansion WestTexas – American Slaveholders Move there – create problems for Mexico TX Independence in 1836, joins the US? – 1845, US War with MX 1846-68 Question of Slavery in Lands Won from Mexico : Options
Wilmot Proviso – Free SoilersCalhoun & 5th AmendmentPopular / Squatter Sovereignty [Lewis Cass]
Compromise of 1850
-admitted CA as a free state-status of slavery in rest of this territory decided by popular sovereignty
-upheld slavery in DC but abolished slave trade there-more effective Fugitive Slave Law
--Use of federal marshals --Burden on northernersHarriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action
Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854Consequences -- more conflict, bloodshed [to be continued]
Stephen Douglas
IL Senator
Popular Sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act