The Forces that Divide the Nation

I. Politics u A. Agricultural South vs. Industrial North – 1. Northern cities, population, manufacturing. – 2. Plantations, cotton.

– 3. Protective Tariffs. v a. make imported items more expensive, benefit north v b. hurts southern planters.

B. Nullification u 1. The states have the right to declare a federal law illegal. – a. The rights of the states versus the power of the federal government. – b. What does the Constitution mean by power reserved to the States? – c Jefferson developed the argument of nullification to oppose Alien/Sedition act.

C Tariff of Abominations u 1. Great voices in the Senate – a. John C. Calhoun, South Carolina – b. Daniel Webster, Massachusetts – Henry Clay, Kentucky u 2. States Rights vs. Federal Union – South vs North.

Webster, Clay and Calhoun

u 3. South Carolina – a. 1832, passed Nullification Act to battle the tariff – b. Threatened to secede if Act was enforced against their state law. u 4. President Jackson – a. Jackson threatened to send in federal troops if South Carolina to enforce the law. South Carolina backed down.

II. Reform u A. Change society for the better – 1. cities – 2. temperence – 3. education – 4. women’s rights

B. Abolition u 1. End Slavery – a. political reasons, all men created equal – b. religious all are equal in God’s eyes, quakers – The Underground Railroad, painted by Charles T. Webber, 1891.

u 2. Three Methods – a. Monroe Colonizationsociety, Liberia, avoid the issue – b. Moderates- it will die out – c. Hard core activists v i. William Loyd Garrison v ii. Frederick Douglass v iii. Harriet Tubman

III. Westward Expansion u A balance in the Senate – 1. Eleven Northern states v a. OH,PA,NJ,NY,CT,RI,MA,NH,VT,IN,IL – 2. Eleven Southern states v a. MD,VA,TN,NC,SC,GA,DE,KY,MISS,LA,AL

u B Missouri Compromise – MO petitioned Congress to enter the Union as a slave state. v Northern Senators oppose admission – 2. Henry Clay-the great compromiser v a ME petitions to enter as free v b. Clay proposes the 36’30” line be used to divide the LA purchase between slave and free – 3.MI,IO,WI, free, FL,TX,AK enter as slave

C. War with Mexico u Wilmot Proviso – a. Representative David Wilmot proposes any lands won from Mexico be declared slave free – b. Senate defeats it debate rages over slavery in Mexican session.

u 2. Free soilers – a a political party forms dedicated to keeping western lands free. – b. Presidential candidate loses but they win 13 seats in Congress – c. means there is a voice in congress dedicated to ending slavery.

Compromise 1850 u -1850, California petitioned to enter as a free state u - Southerners refused to let this happen. u Compromise- popular sovereignty to the new territories of New Mexico and Utah u New fugitive slave law u Slavery illegal in Washington DC

Uncle Tom’s Cabin u In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel convinced many northerners to join the cause of abolition.

Bleeding Kansas u In 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act –Split the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into Kansas and Nebraska Territories –Allowed people in territory to decide whether slave or free based on popular sovereignty

Bleeding Kansas cont. u Began race to fill Kansas by proslavery and abolitionists to sway the vote. u In 1855 both sides established their own government u In 1856 pro slavery border ruffians rode in to Lawrence, shot up town and killed 5 u John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek

Violence in the senate u Charles Sumner gave speech denouncing proslavery activists in Kansas. He singled out Senator Andrew Butler in his attack. Preston Brooks in response beat him with his cane on the floor of the Senate.