Westward Expansion Causes Conflict Over Slavery
I. The Basic Problem A. NOT the morality of slavery B. NOT slavery in the South
C. Free Soil and the Spread of Slavery to the West
Economic Impact: Free Labor and White Workers
Political Impact: The Balanced Senate and the 3/5 Clause
II. Problem #1: California – Free, Slave or Two States?
The Compromise CA = free state Popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico
No Slave Trade in Wash. DC
Tougher Fugitive Slave Law
III. Cuba – A Slave State?
The Solution: The Ostend Manifesto -- take Cuba by $ or force
The Result: manifesto leaked northern criticism no expansion into Caribbean
IV. Problem #3: Nebraska Territory – Free or Slave?
A. Stephen Douglas' Goal: Northern Transcontinental Railroad Route Through Illinois
B. Stephen Douglas’ Strategy: -- Make Nebraska & Kansas Two Separate Territories
Popular Sovereignty Replaces the Missouri Compromise
C. The Result: John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, and the Caning of Charles Sumner