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North relies on industry and commerce and the South rely on plantations and agriculture
North - Industry
South- Agriculture
Major export of the South is cotton
South invests in slave labor, not industry
Cotton plant
most Southerners do not own slaves and resent the rich slave owners
many Northern workers and immigrants opposed slavery because it took away jobs and was an economic threat to them
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many in the North who considered themselves abolitionists were still racists
RACIST – having prejudice based on race
Slave owners defended the owning of slaves by saying they were actually helping the African Americans by giving them shelter, food and religion
WILMOT PROVISO – a bill to outlaw any slavery in land obtained from the war with Mexico
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territories will be able to decide whether they want to be a free or slave state - POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
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It passed in the House of Representatives but not the Senate
Created a new political party called the FREE SOIL PARTY
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California wants to enter as a free state – this would upset the balance of power between free and slave
FREE STATES
SLAVESTATES6
COMPROMISE OF 1850 – a plan offered by Henry Clay, a senator from Kentucky
Henry Clay7
DANIEL WEBSTER – Senator from Massachusetts who supports the Compromise of 1850
Daniel Webster
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STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS – Senator from Illinois, was in charge of passing the Compromise of 1850
Stephen A Douglas
COMPROMISE OF 1850 – a temporary solution to the free state / slave state debate as the nation grew
Compromise of 1850:
1)California enters as a free state and slave trade is abolished in Washington D.C.
FREE=
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Compromise of 1850:
2) Congress agrees to not pass any laws about banning slavery in areas received in the Mexican War and pass tougher fugitive slaves laws
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SLAVERY IN 1860
The Fugitive Slave Act brought the issue of slavery to the North
Northerners now had to face the slavery issue
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FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT - a law that said slaves could be arrested without an arrest warrant and brought back to their owner in the South
Southerners felt the Fugitive Slave Act was justified because slaves were viewed as property
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an important book to the abolitionist movement
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President Lincoln once met her and said: “So, you’re the lady that started this whole war.”
UNLCE TOM’S CABIN - a novel about a runaway slave escaping to the North, makes people aware of the issue of slavery, sells hundreds of thousands of copies
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the plot of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the story of the life of a slave named Tom
Includes some stories of escapes to freedom
the Nebraska Territory was now the new controversy
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposes the KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT to create Nebraska and Kansas Territories
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Each territory will be able to decide whether they want to be a free or slave state - POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
Kansas – Nebraska Act would replace the Missouri Compromise in deciding free or slave states
people for and against slavery now moved to this area to be able to vote on this issue
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Many people voted illegally and fights break out in Kansas - this becomes known as “BLEEDING KANSAS”
An attack on Lawrence becomes known as the “Sack of Lawrence”
BLEEDINGKANSAS
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JOHN BROWN is in Kansas and begins to become a strict abolitionist
He will become an important figure later
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Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts is attacked on the floor of the Senate and hit over 30 times with a cane by a slavery supporter
An attack even happened in Congress
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DRED SCOTT – an African American who had been a slave and moved by his master to a state where slavery was illegal
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DRED SCOTT CASE – Scott sued for his freedom, claiming that since he was held as a slave where it was illegal he should be free (1857)
Supreme Court ruled that Scott was not an American citizen because he was a slave and thus could not sue
Northerners were outraged and Southerners were happy
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