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LARGE POPULATION
FACTORIES
CITIES
IMMIGRANTS
ARGROCULTURAL PLANTATIONS
“KING COTTON”“THE COTTON KINGDOM”
MORE LAND, MORE
SLAVES 50% OF ALL
EXPORTS (1840)
SLAVES LIVED IN FAMILY UNITS = CHILDREN
COMMINUTY ENCOURAGE = LESS REBELLION
EXTREMELY VALUABLE $1,200
GOOD MEDICAL TREATMENT
MOST WORKED IN COTTON FIELDS (10-12 HOURS A DAY)
SLAVE CODES
NO FREEDOM – SOLD – BROKEN FAMILIES –PUNISHED – NO LAST NAME – HARD WORK –
NO CULTURE
ABOLITION: TO END SLAVERY
NO SLAVES IN NORTH AFTER 1800
QUAKERS IN P.A. START CAMPAIGN AGAINST SLAVERY
FORMS ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
WRITES “THE LIBERATOR”
FREE THE SLAVES BY “WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY!”
NO PLAN NEEDED JUST FREE THEM NOW!
FORMER SLAVE
MAKES A STRONG IMPRESSION
ABOUT HIS LIFE
TOURS THE NORTH LECTURING
HELP SLAVES ESCAPE TO CANADA
PROBLEMS WITH SLAVERY
NORTH CONTROLS THE HOUSE
SENATE = NORTH (11), SOUTH (11)
MISSOURI WANTS TO BE ADMITTED AS A SLAVE STATE
THIS WOULD UPSETTHE BALANCE IN
THE SENATE!
DEBATED IN CONGRESS
TALLMADGE: NO SLAVERY IN LA PURCHASE-CONGRESS EXPLODES
CLAY COMPROMISES:
MISSOURI & MAINE+ 36’ 30” LINE
LOYALTY TO ONE’S STATE OR SECTION RATHER THAN THE
ENTIRE NATION
SOUTH SEES NORTH AS A THREAT TO THEIR WAY
OF LIFE
NORTH SEES SOUTH AS ALMOST LIKE ANOTHER COUNTRY-ABOLITION MOVEMENT IS GROWING
SUGGESTED BANNING SLAVERY IN THE
NEW TERRITORIES
MISSOURI COMPROMISE ONLY APPLIES TO
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
MANY NORTHERNERS OPPOSED MEXICAN WAR –
SOUTH WANTS TO SPREAD SLAVERY
PASSES IN HOUSE – FAILS IN SENATE
DAVID WILMONT (PA)
SOME SAY MISSOURI COMPROMISE SHOULD
BE EXTENED WEST
OTHERS CALL FOR POPULAR SOVERNIGNTY: PEOPLE IN THE
TERRITORY WILL VOTE TO DECIDE IF
THEY WILL BE A SLAVE OR A FREE STATE
POLITICAL PARTY FOUNDED IN 1848 – KEEP SLAVERY OUT OF MEXICAN CESSION –
BELIEVED IN WILMONT PROVISO
“FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LAND, FREE MEN”
FEDREAL AID FOR INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS – FREE LAND
POLK DOES NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION
LEWIS CASS
DEMOCRAT
POPULAR SOVERNIGNTY
ZACHARY TAYLOR
WHIG
NO PLATFORM: WAR HERO
FREE SOIL
MARTIN VAN BUREN
WHIG
TAYLOR
WAR HERO
CASS
DEMOCRAT
DID NOT KNOWREALLY HOW TO BE
PRESIDENT
NO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE,OR SOPHISTICATION
COMMON, ORDINARY, WARMHEARTED