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week of 12/5/22 - Coggle Diagram
week of 12/5/22
FAILURE TO COMPROMISE
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Kansas Nebraska act: 1854
Stephen Douglass made a bill to organize the Nebraska territory and make it a slave state, so they repeal a part of the Missouri compromise and allow Nebraska to have popular sovereignty and choose if they have slaves or not
Signed by president Pierce with unanimous support from the South
with this we took our biggest step towards a civil war, it destroyed the whig party, and divided the other ones
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People began moving to Kansas because it has popular sovereignty to have a say in whether or not it is a slave state
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LINCOLN
Lincoln wanted
Protective tariffs
non extension of slavery
not an abolitionist
Free soil
immigration rights
homesteads for citizens in the west
a transcontinental railroad
House divided speech, talks about issues of slavery, calls us a divided nation,
illonis captured everyone's attention, Lincoln against Douglas, Lincoln is unknown there so he challenges douglas to 7 debates
Douglas never took a moral stand in the debates while Lincoln yet Lincoln forced him to admitting popular sovereignty over the Dred Scott decision
Lincoln still lost Illinois but won the South by outing him
ECONOMY
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abolitionists were a minority but were known widely for their tactics
Stowe wrote a book about slavery that northern readers read and realized how bad slavery was
South
The abolitionists began to crack, some were scared of the violence from the anti-abolitionists, North wanted to secede
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IMMIGRATION
Settled in ethnic communities, lived in slums, infant mortalities,
Nativism: the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
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NORTH VS. SOUTH
North felt for slaves and it made them look at slavery differently while the South called her a long-tongued woman
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SLAVERY COMPROMISES
America kept getting more land, Slavery was always a question
Kansas Nebraska act, Douglas suggested that Kansas and Nebraska spilt and allow their people to choose violence erupted when both sides fought for slaves/ no slaves
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