1. Westward Expansion Causes Conflict Over Slavery

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

3. C. Free Soil and the Spread of Slavery to the West

4. Economic Impact: Free Labor and White Workers

5. Political Impact: The Balanced Senate and the 3/5 Clause

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

7. The Compromise CA = free state
Popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico

8. No Slave Trade in Wash. DC

9. Tougher Fugitive Slave Law

10. III. Cuba – A Slave State?

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

12. The Result: manifesto leaked  northern criticism  no expansion into Caribbean

13. IV. Problem #3: Nebraska Territory – Free or Slave?

14. A. Stephen Douglas' Goal: Northern Transcontinental Railroad Route Through Illinois

15. B. Stephen Douglas’ Strategy: -- Make Nebraska & Kansas Two Separate Territories

16. Popular Sovereignty Replaces the Missouri Compromise

17. C. The Result: John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, and the Caning of Charles Sumner