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5.6 Failure of Compromisze - Coggle Diagram
5.6 Failure of Compromisze
Kansas- Nebraska Act
established the principle of "popular sovereignty"
supported by the pro-slavery advocates
it gave them the opportunity to expand slavery into new territories
the Missouri Compromise had established a line of latitude above which slavery was not allowed, the 36°30′ parallel north
opposed by abolitionists and many Northerners
they saw it as a betrayal of the principles of the Missouri compromise and an attempt to expand slavery into the northern states
1854-The Third-Party System
Conscience Whigs
Primarily based in the Northern states. They were mostly abolitionists or anti-slavery and were opposed to the expansion of slavery into the Western territories.
Cotton Whigs
Primarily based in the Southern states. They were mostly pro-slavery, and they believed that slavery was a necessary institution for the economic development of the Southern states.
Republican Party
After the Whigs split, some of the Conscience Whigs teamed up with other anti-slavery parties such as the Liberty Party and the Free Soil Party, along with some Know-Nothings.
Bleeding Kansas
cause: the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854
effect: a rush of settlers from both the North and South to the territory, each seeking to influence the outcome of the vote on slavery
Caning of Senator Sumner
cause: the violence in Kansas
effect: He was so badly injured that he didn’t return to the Senate for 3 years.
Constitutional issues
Lecompton Constitution
effect: The next year, it was overwhelmingly rejected by Kansas settlers, most of who were anti-slavery Republicans.
He asked Congress to accept the document and admit Kansas as a slave state.
Dred Scott (enslaved African American man)
In the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in March of 1857, the court ruled that Scott was not a citizen, and thus could not sue in a Federal court.
But Chief Justice Roger B. Taney went further, deciding that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because Congress could not make laws prohibiting slavery in United States territories. Since slaves were considered property, the U.S. government could not take them away without due process as per the Fifth Amendment.
It was eventually overturned by the 14th Amendment and is widely considered one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
effect: loss of Southern support for Douglas and this caused his defeat in the election of 1860
Lincoln was not an abolitionist. As a moderate who was against the
expansion of slavery, he spoke e" ectively of slavery as a moral issue.