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Wilmot Proviso
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Amendment added to war appropriations bill by David Wilmot (philadephia congressman) declaring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in any territories aquired from mexico. year 1846 (?) mexican war.
debates were significant because legislators voted as north v. south, not Whigs and Dems. menat to preserve area for "sons of toil, of my own race and own color" |
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"Free Soil"
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Belief that all new land should be free/ congress had to power to make it so
Precedents: 1. Northwest Ordinance 2. Missouri Compromise |
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Constitutional Protection
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Southerners believed they had a right ot slaves in the new lands.
important figures: Calhoun- South Carolina Robert Toombs of Georgia |
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"Popular Soveriegnty"
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Michigan Senetor Lewis Cass' idea to leave desisions on slavery to local self-governments
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Lewis Cass
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idea of popular soverienty
nominated president by dems in 1848 denounced abolistionists/wilmot proviso printed two campain bios |
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Zack Taylor
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nominated pres by whigs- 1848
avoided slavery altogether slave holder mex war vet WON |
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Free soil party
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nominated Van Buren for prez 1848
-made up of disaffeted whigs from mass who didnt like having slave holder as prez -new york democrats |
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Compromise of 1850
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Created by Henry Clay (the great compromiser), with support from Webster
at first defeated in senate clay leaves washinton- dies Stephen Douglas of Illinois gets resolutions passed induvidually 1. California Enters as a free state (ending balance 16:15) 2. Pop soverienty in New Mexico, Utah. Settles texas border- gives 10 mil to texas for debts 3. abolished salve trade, not slavery, in DC 4. Fugitive Slave law (serious impact) |
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Sojouner Truth
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former slave who spoke about slavery and womens roles
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Harriat Beecher Stowe
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Wrote UNcle Tom's Cabin
pissed off south inspired the north |
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Winfield Scott
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Mexi war hero elected by whigs to repeat Taylots success election of 1852
won out over pro-southern fillmore alienated southern whigs |
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Franklin Pierce
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lackluster compromise candidate from new hampshire for dems in election of 1852
WON (voters uninterested because candidates did not clash, dems resorted to bribing catholic immigrants |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Stephen Douglas' (dem), 1854 act. - trying to help his state illinois/ take leadership role
recomended pop soveringty (which meant slavery could be voted in- thus violating miss comp) Douglas aruged the soil was no good for slavery NOrtherners accepted southerners challenge to battle for soil |
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Orestes Brownson
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jacksonian dem who went thro a bunch of religions before setleing on catholicism- represented influx of catholics and their ability to convert
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Redemptorists and Jesuits
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catholics trying to convert protestants
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Know-Nothings (American)
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party made up of mostly former whigs who pledged never to vote for irish catholics (whos loyalty was to the pope)
appealed to middle and lowerclass americans nervous about disruptive foreigners elected fillmore in 1856 |
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Republican Party
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mostly made of of whigs/ free soilers/disaffected dems. almost entirley notherners. 4 elements
1. abolishionists who didnt want slavery in territories, led by William Seward and Charles Sumner of mass 2. more moderate group, led by Abe Lincoln of Illinois 3. revivalists- wanted to purify america of sins (former whigs) 4. whig legacy of Henry Clay's American System, those who wanted fed to support commercial/industrial development "those who work with their hands..live and act independently...." elected JOhn Freemont |
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JAmes Buchanan
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elected by dems in 1956
"nothern man with southern principles WON |
