The Sectional Crisis Pt. 1
Free Soil Party
Wilmont Proviso: No slaves or free African-Americans in the New Mexican Territories
Split Congress in two
to stop expansion of slavery
Mexican War Influence
gained 40% more land and was afraid of getting more slaves in the south
1836 Gag rule in House and couldn't discuss or debate slavery or bring anything to Congress over slaves
Texas was now a slave state and could be broken up into smaller states to make the South more powerful in the Senate
1848 Election
Van Buren, VP, free-soil man. Gets votes from most Northern democrats, WEAK PARTY.
Cass- Part of Whig party, and democrat from Michigan. His theory is that new territory should decide what they want to do with slavery.
Zachary Taylor: WHIG, War Hero, Slave owner, Died 1.5 years into being President, Not a good politician and never voted, No stated position
1850 Compromise
New Mexico and Utah come in and decide whether they want to be a free or slave state by popular sovereignty
California first state in New Mexican Territory; Main problem is it splits the Missouri Compromise Line
Texas gets Mexican War debt paid off
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Wrote this book in outrage to the Fugitive State Law and it was anti-slavery propaganda
Harriet Beecher met with Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln tells her "You're the little lady who started this great big war"
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book in 1852
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Two rival governments that sent two different State constitutions: one for slavery and other against slavery
"Bleeding Kansas" Civil War in Kansas amongst themselves
Popular sovereignty to decide if the states would be free or slave
Took 10% of the 1848 election
California comes in as a free state
Ends Slave trade in DC: political presentation
New Fugitive Slave Law: Northern is now Legally required to return slaves to their owner
Portrayed Uncle Tom as a Christ like figure
South didn't like the book and proclaimed it was false and the author kept record of the events to show its true
sold 2 million over 10 years
People from different states moved in to vote it a free or slave state
John Brown's Raid: freed slaves and hacked slaver owner family in their beds with swords
once it becomes a free slave , slave owners move to Texas.