week of 12/5/22

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.

ECONOMY

North- free wage laborers
South- Slavery based



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

most came from ireland and germany

Irish were catholic and are the backbone of the labor forces the Germans were catholic and Lutheran the farmers and small businessmen

KNOW NOTHING PARTY

Had to take a test to test your literacy

needed these for votes

The abolitionists began to crack, some were scared of the violence from the anti-abolitionists, North wanted to secede

NORTH VS. SOUTH

North felt for slaves and it made them look at slavery differently while the South called her a long-tongued woman

South said the north barely paid people while the North said slavery was bad

abolition movement- they didn't want slaves in the area

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

additional votes were put into the ballot for a pro slavery people

dred scott, a slave in missouri, taken to live in Illinois, a free state and sued for his right to be free yet was not granted that right


any state is open to slavery with this law

republicans did not say no to slavery, they just said no to the spread of slavery

FAILURE TO COMPROMISE

second party system ended when issues of slavery issues weakened the loyalties to the party

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

Stephen Douglass is made to be a traitor for taking over the beliefs of others for a political gain

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

People began moving to Kansas because it has popular sovereignty to have a say in whether or not it is a slave state

John brown and his sons killed 5 pro slavery people over their views

Over 200 people dead by 1856 due to fights over slavery

FAILURE TO COMPROMISE PT 2

Charles Sumner insults Senator Butler, his nephew, Brooks, caned Sumner over 30 times, until he fell, unconscious, but he survives

Sumner was the hero of the North and Preston Brooks was hero of the south, who was sent canes to replace the one he beat sumner with

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

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