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AP US History
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Free Soil Party Free Soil! Free Speech! Free Labor! Free Men! “Barnburners” – discontented northern Democrats. Anti-slave members of the Liberty and Whig Parties. Opposition to the extension of slavery in the new territories!
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GOLD! At Sutter’s Mill, 1848 John A. Sutter
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California Gold Rush, 1849 49er’s
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Two Views of San Francisco, Early 1850s By 1860, almost 300,000 people had traveled the Oregon & California Trails to the Pacific coast.
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Westward the Course of Empire Emmanuel Leutze, 1860
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The Southern Economy
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Southern Society-Circa 1850 “ Slavocracy” [plantation owners] The“Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers ] Freemen 250,000 Slaves 3,200,000 Total US Population 23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%] 6,000,000
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Southern Population
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Southern Agriculture
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Reliance on Cotton- changes on production 1820 1860
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Cotton Exports
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Growing concerns over Slavery
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Early Emancipation in the North
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1780s: 1 st antislavery society created in Philadelphia. By 1804: slavery eliminated from last northern state. 1807: the legal termination of the slave trade, enforced by the Royal Navy. 1820s: many newly independent Republics of Central & So. America declared their slaves free. 1833: slavery abolished throughout the British Empire. 1844: slavery abolished in the Fr. colonies. 1861: the serfs of Russia were emancipated Slavery in the South- Unusual?
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Missouri Compromise
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Compromise of 1850
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1.U. S. Constitution: * 3/5s compromise [I.2] * fugitive slave clause [IV.2] 2.1793 Fugitive Slave Act. 3.1850 stronger Fugitive Slave Act. Laws on Slavery
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Presidential Election 1852 Franklin Pierce Democrat General Winfield Scott Whig John Parker Hale Free-Soil Party
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Results
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Expansionist Young America in the 1850s America’s Attempted Raids into Latin America
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Territorial Growth to 1853
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Kansas-Nebraska Act,1854
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Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 Sold 300,000 its first year 1 million copies in a decade Lincoln -“So this is the lady who started this great war” Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896
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Bleeding Kansas Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)
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Another Fight in Congress-”The Crime Against Congress Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)
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Birth of Republican Party Northern Whigs Northern Democrats. Free-Soilers. Know-Nothings. Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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Presidential Election, 1856
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Dred Scott Decision Dred Scott v Sanford, 1857
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Illinois Senate race 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand. Popular Sovereignty Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Harper’s Ferry, 1859
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The Final Nail Election of 1860
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The Candidates Abraham Lincoln Republican John Bell Constitutional Union Stephen Douglass Northern Democrat Stephen C. Breckenridge Southern Democrat
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The Republican Platform Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers.] Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists]. No abridgment of rights for immigrants [a disappointment for the “Know-Nothings”]. Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest]. Internal improvements [for the West] at federal expense. Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers]. Why would southerners oppose this platform?
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RESULTS
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A nation coming Apart? Discuss the cartoon. Who is presented and what is it symbolizing?
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One Last Attempt to Preserve the Union Crittenden Compromise: Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing-KY) Corwin Compromise Senator Thomas Corwin (Ohio)
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Secession ! SC, Dec 20, 1860
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Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861
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