QUESTION: SHOULD SLAVERY BE LEGAL IN THE MEXICAN CESSION? CALIFORNIA WANTS TO ENTER THE UNION AS A...
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QUESTION: SHOULD SLAVERY BE LEGAL IN THE MEXICAN CESSION?
CALIFORNIA WANTS TO ENTER THE UNION AS A FREE STATE - UNBALANCE
IN THE SENATE – SECESSION?
SEVEN MONTH DEBATE IN THE SENATE
THE OLD GUARD’S (CLAY, CALHOUN, WEBSTER) LAST HURRAH
CLAY SUGGESTS A COMPROMISE – MAKES OVER 70 SPEECHES
-”NATURE ON YOUR SIDE”
CALHOUN TOO SICK TO READ OWN STATEMENTS –” LET SOUTH SECEED” DIES DURINGTHE DEBATE
– WEBSTER SUPPORTS CLAY – (SOUND)
SEWARD - “GOD’S MORAL RIGHT TO ABOLISH SLAVERY!”
WEBTALK
TAYLOR AGREES WITH SEWARD – THREATENS TO VETO THE
BILL – TEXAS THREATENS TO MARCH ON SANTA FE!
TAYLOR DIES SUDDENLY – MILLARD FILLMORE BECOMES PRESIDENT & SIGNS THE BILL
1. CALIFORNIA ENTERS AS A FREE STATE
2. ABOLISH SLAVE TRADE IN D.C.
3. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW – NORTH MUST HELP CAPTURE RUNAWAY
SLAVES & RETURN THEM TO THE SOUTH
4. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN TERRITORIES
5. TEXAS PAID $10 FOR BORDER DISPUTE
GOOD BYE TOOLD FRIENDS
GOOD PRESIDENTIAL QUALITIES, BUT MAKES
BAD DISICIONS
ABOUT FILLMORE
ANTI-SLAVERY
WHIG PARTY SPLITS IN HALFNORTH & SOUTH
STRONG UNIFIED NATION OF ECONOMIC & MORALPROGRESS ACHIEVED BY FREE MEN
LAND OF COMMERCE, ENTERPRISE, EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY
INDIVIDUALISM, EQUALITY, MORALITY, SMALL TOWN VALUES
REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT - OTHERS
SOCIAL VALUES – COURTEOUS, REFINED, GENTEEL SOCIETY
DEOMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT BASED ON LOCAL CONTROLAND STATES’ RIGHTS
PERSONAL INCOME 15% HIGHER THAN IN NORTH WITH35% OF THE POPULATION – 15% OF THE INDUSTRY
PIERCE SCOTTDEMOCRAT
PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF 1850
WHIG
PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF1850 & FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
TAYLOR DISLIKES COMPROMISE
PIERCE MEXICAN WAR GENERAL“A HERO OF MANY WELL FOUGHT BATTLES!”
PIERCE SCOTT
DEMOCRAT
WHIG
WHIG PARTY DYING
“HANDSOME FRANK”
FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE,BUT PRO-SOUTH
WIFE HATES POLITICS
EXPANSIONIST“SLAVEOCRATS”
JEFFERSON DAVIS
AMERICA IS A MODEL OF FREEDOM
CONTINUE MANIFEST DESTINY INTO SOUTH AMERICA?
ADMIRAL PERRY IN JAPAN
USA ATTEMPS TO BUY CUBA – PERFECT FOR PLANTATIONS
MEETING IN EUROPE – BETWEEN U.S. MINISTERS
– SPAIN SHOULD SELL CUBA OR USA CAN SPONCER
REVOLUTION EVEN INVADE!
SPAIN REFUSES
NORTH & EUROPE UPSET
BOOK DEPICTING THE LIFE OF AN ESCAPING SLAVE WITH A CRUEL MASTER
HARRIET BEECHER STOW
BEST SELLER (300,000 SOLD)
MANY NORTHERNERS START TO DISOBEY THE FUGITIVE
SLAVE LAW AFTER READING THE BOOK
HATED IN THE SOUTH
PROPOSED BY DOUGLAS – WANTS THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WITH NORTHERN ROUTE – MONEY
ACT SETS UP TWO TERRITORIES WITH POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
PIERCE SUPPORTS BILL – NORTHERN WHIGS DISLIKE BILL –DESTROYS WHIG
PARTY
DOUGLAS THINKS CLIMATE WILL PREVENT THESE SOON TO BE STATES
FROM CHOOSING SLAVERY
SOUND
1. SLAVERY – MORAL, SOCIAL, & POLITICAL EVIL
2. REPEAL KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
3. AGAINST THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY
108 MEMBERS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1854
RACE TO SETTLE KANSAS (IOWA & MISSOURI)NORTH FREE SOILERS SEND PEOPLE FROM NEW ENGLAND
1854- KANSAS ELECTS PROSLAVERY CONGRESSMEN & LEGISLATURE –
6,000 VOTES ONLY 2,000 RESIDENTS - PIERCE INVESTIGATES
BUT DOES NOTHING!
KANSAS HAS TWO GOVERNMENTSSLAVE (LECOMPTON) & FREE (TOPEKA)
BOTH SIDES RECRUIT MEN TO FIGHT
FIGHTING RESULTS IN OVER 200 DEATHS
KANSAS CONTINUES TO BE DESTOYED! PRECURSER TO CIVIL WAR
NEW GOVERNER WITH FEDERAL TROOPS
KANSAS DEBATE HEATS UP IN CONGRESS
SEN. BUTLER’S NEPHEW BEATS SUMNER WITH A CANE
ON THE SENATE FLOOR!
SUMNER
SEN. SUMNER (ABOLITIONIST) GIVES “CRIMES AGAIST KANSAS”
SPEECH – SOUTH FEELS INSULTED
BROOKS