CHAPTER 10 The Union in Peril
North- Industry and Immigration Most work in factories North becomes more anti slavery Fear job competition Railroad expansion connects the cities
South is mostly agricultural 1/3 of the population lived in the south South didn’t rely on RR’s mostly rivers The majority favored slavery and feared it’s demise
Wilmot Proviso- California, Utah, New Mexico would be closed to slavery forever. Divided congress along regional lines Further divided the North and South California- 1849 gold rush attracts massive amounts of immigrants. Cali’s new constitution forbade slavery( uh hello Missouri Compromise?)
In the senate southerners threaten to secede. Compromise of 1850 Cali as a free state Utah and N.M decide their own fate TX/NM border issue solved Slave sale banned in DC but not slavery itself Fugitive Slave Act required those in free states to capture escaped slaves
Personal liberty laws- forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves, guaranteed a trial. South…not happy Underground Railroad secret passages which led runaway slaves to freedom Most famous conductor was Harriet Tubman
Popular sovereignty- the ability of the people to decide Kansas Nebraska Act-divided the territory into two- Neb to the North, and KS to the South It passed and abolished the Missouri Compromise, now all land would vote on slavery
Bleeding Kansas- John Brown felt he had been called by god to fight slavery Pottawatomie Creek- he pulls 5 men from their beds and hacks off their hands to defend abolition