Chapter+13-Michael+McFarland

1) Conflict Over Status of Territories
a) Free-Soil Movement -North supports Wilmot Proviso -Free-Soil Party- "free soil, free kabor, free men" b) Southern Position -thought limiting slavery violated Constitutional Rights -Moderates favored moving 36*30* line west c) The Election of 1848 -General Zachary Taylor (Whig) defeats Senator Cass and Martin Van Buren 2) The Comprimise of 1850 - Taylor supports CA and NM as free states - Allow slavery only by poular sovereignty - Ban slave trade in D.C. -Adopt new, strict Fugitive Slave Law - Taylor dies suddenly in 1850 - Succeeded by Millard Fillmore 3) Agitation Over Slavery a) Fugiitive Slave Law - North very aggrivated by law - Can issue warrants for slaves arrest - If claim to be free black, no right to trial - Citizens who hid runaways subject to heavy penalties b) Underground Railroad - Not well organized - Led by free blacks c) Literature on Slavery- Pro and Con - Uncle Tom's Cabin -Impending Crisis on the South - South argues good for both slave and master d) Effect of Law and Literature - South believes North's goal is to destroy South 4) National Parties in Crisis a) Election of 1850 -Franklin Pierce (Dem.) crushes Whigs b) Kansas-Nebraska Act - wanted to build transcontinental railroad - break Nebraska into Kansas and Nebraska - choose on slavery by popular sovereignty - passed reluctantly c) New Parties - Know-Nothing Party - Birth of the Republican Party d) The Election of 1856 - James Buchanan (Dem.) wins - Becomes apparent that Rep. can win without the South 5) Extremists and Violence a) Bleeding Kansas - Pro-slavery Missouri fights anti-slavery KS - Preston Brooks hits Charles Sumner over his head with a cane 6) Constitutional Issues a) Lecompton Constitution - Rejected by Congress - Pro-slavery document b) Dred Scott vs. Sanford - Slave can't be considered free after living in free state for two years c) Lincoln-Douglass Debates - Lincoln views slavery as immoral - Lincoln gains ground; hence, Douglass loses ground 7) The Road to Secession a) John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry - Attacked federal arsenal - North condemns actions b) The Election of 1860 - Break-up of Dem. party - Rep. nominate Lincoln c) Secession of the Deep South - Form Confederate States of America - President is Jefferson Davis
 * caused many to view slave owners as brutal
 * said slavery had a negative effect on the South's economy
 * responded "I know nothing"
 * coalition of Free-Soilers and anti-slavery Whigs/Dems.
 * called for repeal of KS-NB Act + Fugitive Slave Law
 * Second largest party by 1860
 * Nominate Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge
 * South will leave Union if Lincoln is elected