Lecture 3, Monday September 17: Slavery’s Westward Threat
Regional Tensions develop over Politics & Economics of Slavery
Missouri Compromise –1820
Tallmadge Amendment / Then ?s about role of slavery in future growth
Regional Tensions Grow over Question of Slavery’s Expansion  West
Texas – American Slaveholders Move there – create problems for Mexico
TX Independence in 1836, joins the US? – 1845, US War with MX 1846-68
Question of Slavery in Lands Won from Mexico : Options
Wilmot Proviso – Free Soilers
Calhoun & 5th Amendment
Popular / Squatter Sovereignty [Lewis Cass]
Compromise of 1850
-admitted CA as a free state
-status of slavery in rest of this territory decided by popular sovereignty
-upheld slavery in DC but abolished slave trade there
-more effective Fugitive Slave Law
--Use of federal marshals --Burden on northerners
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action
Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Consequences -- more conflict, bloodshed [to be continued]
Politics Matters, especially Partisan Politics!
so says Michael Holt
• If cotton had not become the premier cash crop,
would sectionalism have been a problem in the
United States?
• If US territory had remained bound to the eastern
side of the Mississippi River, would sectionalism
have intensified?
• It Texas had remained outside of the US, would
that have altered the course of events?
• If the US had not gone to war with Mexico, would
the North and South have become so diatremically
opposed to one another around one issue?
Lecture 3, Monday September 17: Slavery’s Westward Threat
Regional Tensions develop over Politics & Economics of Slavery
Missouri Compromise –1820
Tallmadge Amendment / Then ?s about role of slavery in future growth
Regional Tensions Grow over Question of Slavery’s Expansion  West
Texas – American Slaveholders Move there – create problems for Mexico
TX Independence in 1836, joins the US? – 1845, US War with MX 1846-68
Question of Slavery in Lands Won from Mexico : Options
Wilmot Proviso – Free Soilers
Calhoun & 5th Amendment
Popular / Squatter Sovereignty [Lewis Cass]
Compromise of 1850
-admitted CA as a free state
-status of slavery in rest of this territory decided by popular sovereignty
-upheld slavery in DC but abolished slave trade there
-more effective Fugitive Slave Law
--Use of federal marshals --Burden on northerners
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action
Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Consequences -- more conflict, bloodshed [to be continued]
David Wilmot
1846- Wilmot Proviso
“…as an express and
fundamental condition to the
acquisition of any territory
from the Republic of Mexico .
..
neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude shall
ever exist in any part of said
territory.”
Free Soil Position:
“When territory presents itself
for annexation with slavery
already established, I stand
ready to take it….I will not change its
institutions, then. I make no war upon
the South. I have no squeamish
sensitiveness on the subject of slavery –
no morbid sympathy for the slave. But
I stand for the integrity of the territory.
It shall remain free, so far as my voice
and vote can aid in the preservation of
its free character.”
The spread of
slavery into
the west?
--- an issue around which
abolitionists and Free Soilers can
unite.
Lecture 3, Monday September 17: Slavery’s Westward Threat
Regional Tensions develop over Politics & Economics of Slavery
Missouri Compromise –1820
Tallmadge Amendment / Then ?s about role of slavery in future growth
Regional Tensions Grow over Question of Slavery’s Expansion  West
Texas – American Slaveholders Move there – create problems for Mexico
TX Independence in 1836, joins the US? – 1845, US War with MX 1846-68
Question of Slavery in Lands Won from Mexico : Options
Wilmot Proviso – Free Soilers
Calhoun & 5th Amendment
Popular / Squatter Sovereignty [Lewis Cass]
Compromise of 1850
-admitted CA as a free state
-status of slavery in rest of this territory decided by popular sovereignty
-upheld slavery in DC but abolished slave trade there
-more effective Fugitive Slave Law
--Use of federal marshals --Burden on northerners
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action
Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Consequences -- more conflict, bloodshed [to be continued]
Stephen Douglas
IL Senator
Popular Sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act