Westward Expansion Causes Conflict Over Slavery. I. The Basic Problem A. NOT the morality of slavery B. NOT slavery in the South.

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Westward Expansion Causes Conflict Over Slavery

I. The Basic Problem A. NOT the morality of slavery B. NOT slavery in the South

C. Free Soilers Oppose the Spread of Slavery to the West

-- Economic Reason: Land and Jobs for White Workers

-- Political Reason: The “Slave Power” and the 3/5 Clause

II. Problem #1: California – Free, Slave or Two States?

The Compromise of 1850: 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?

A. The Solution: The Ostend Manifesto -- take Cuba by $ or force

B. 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: 1. Organize Nebraska Territory

B. Make Nebraska & Kansas Two Separate Territories

C. Popular Sovereignty Replaces the Missouri Compromise

D. The Result: Violent Conflicts in Kansas, Congress, and around the Country

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