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section2: How the compromise collapsed
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The result: slavery issue transformed into battle
Stenphen A. Douglas
American Dream: build a railroad to east to west
many small town want to be headquarter
It need governmane aid (land grant)
for already organized and poliitaclly surveyed
He want Chicago city to be received prize
Introduce the Bill : organize west of Iowa and Missouri
In final form: Provide Kansas and Nebrasks territory
southerner don't like the bill
without southerner's vote, his bill can't pass
He concocted two special provision to win souther support
Missouri Compromise of 1820 would be repalced by Compromise of1850
Kansas and Nebraska whether slave or free state made by 'popular sovereignty'
victory for Douglas and the South
popular sovereignty open those land to slave
The new Republican Party
'Republican Party'
Anti-Nebraska Party
resist the extension of slavery
connection to Jefferson's Democrat-Repiblican
Declaration
slavery is moral,social and political evil
demanded repeal of Kansas-Nebraska Act
resolved to sink all political differences
unite in the battle against the extension
The election of 1854 November
The Whig
destroyed
The Democratic Party
staggered
The Republican
108 repulicans are in the congress
The Know-Nothing
43 representatives are in the congress
The Know-Nothing Party
reaction to the everincreasing flood of immigrants
It was a secret association
combat political influence of foreigner
why the party name is 'know-nothing'?
the members replied evasively 'I don't know"
seek to refuge in hate and prejudice, not facing the real issue
Bleeding Kansas
problem of 'popular sovereignty'
it did not say 'when' a territory could decide about slavert
The first to gain control, create majority
Anti-slavery raised money to rush Free-soil party emigrants to Kansas
In May 1856
proslavery sheriff led a mob into Anti slavery Lawrence
Killing each other over slavery
Ostend Manifesto
background
Southerner want Cuba
they believe it can be a profitable slave territory
Spanish does not want to sell it
Cuba was Spanish territory
Spanish, French and English mnister met in Ostend, Belgium
shape the policy on Cuba
supposed to be a confidencial dispatch
failed, reached the press and create uproar
American thinks Cuba is essential ot the welfare
American think they have to take Cuba by force
President Pierce
pro slavery man
warlike expansionist
Charles Sumner is attakced
Charles Sumner criticized the South
Preston S. Brooks of S Carolina avenged Charles
violence reached into congress
Expansion and Slavery
S thought reason of N opposed slavery is injure the S and prevent it from growing
some people disliked slavery because they did not want to compete and live near them