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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