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Ch.18:Renewing the Sectional Struggle
1848-1854
C. Election of 1848
Taylor (W) Van Buren (FS) Cass (Dem.)
Whigs and Democrats don’t ever talk about slavery on the campaign trail!
B. Gold & the ‘49ers!
Gold & the ‘49ers!
1. Life was hard!a. Violentb. discrimination
2. Rarely “struck it rich”
3. Providing for the miners = money maker
4. Big business dominate
Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850 California Statehood Southern “fire-eaters:”
those who threaten secession
Do not want compromise
Underground RR and fugitive slave issues Personal liberty laws –
federal agents not able to use local prisons as a way to hamper enforcement
Slave catchers efforts increase
Harriet Tubman
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850
1. California free state2. Popular sovereignty for
rest of territories3. Fugitive Slave Laws
strictly enforced – “Bloodhound Bill”
denied jury and testimonial on their own behalf
Northerners had to return runaways; furious
4. Slave trade, not slavery, abolished in D.C.
5. Disputed territory by NM and Tx goes to NM
6. Tx paid $10M
Fugitive Slave Law1. Federal support to
capture escaped slaves = Free AA move to Canada
2. Blacks not allowed to testify on their own behalf in court
3. Gave slave owners more power
4. North’s view: law reinforced that slavery was morally wrong
1852 Presidential Election1852 Presidential Election
√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale
Democrat Whig Free Soil
√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale
Democrat Whig Free Soil
1852Electio
n Results
1852Electio
n Results
Election of 1852
Winfield Scott (Whig)
vs.
Franklin Pierce (Dem)
Northern Dem.Irish and German vote for Pierce via “Boss” Tweed
Manifest Destiny under Pres. Pierce(‘53-’56)
1. Annexation of Cuba a. Ostend Manifesto
Secrete plan to acquire Cuba from Spain since they wouldn’t sell
Never happened due to abolitionist protest
2. Matthew Perry Negotiates trade with Japan
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty 1850
Stipulated that the United States nor the
British will try to position themselves for the purpose of
colonization or canal
The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
1. Northern states want the TRR = Need support of Southerners =
2. Allows for popular sovereignty
3. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820
4. Leads to “Bleeding Kansas”
“Bleeding Kansas”“Bleeding Kansas”
Border “Ruffians”
(pro-slavery
Missourians)
Border “Ruffians”
(pro-slavery
Missourians)
“Squatters sovereignty”
What happens to the idea of “compromising” after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise of
1820?