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QUESTION: SHOULD SLAVERY BE LEGAL IN THE MEXICAN CESSION? CALIFORNIA WANTS TO ENTER THE UNION AS A FREE STATE - UNBALANCE IN THE SENATE – SECESSION?

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3 QUESTION: SHOULD SLAVERY BE LEGAL IN THE MEXICAN CESSION? CALIFORNIA WANTS TO ENTER THE UNION AS A FREE STATE - UNBALANCE IN THE SENATE – SECESSION? SEVEN MONTH DEBATE IN THE SENATE

4 THE OLD GUARDS (CLAY, CALHOUN, WEBSTER) LAST HURRAH CLAY SUGGESTS A COMPROMISE – MAKES OVER 70 SPEECHES -NATURE ON YOUR SIDE CALHOUN TOO SICK TO READ OWN STATEMENTS – LET SOUTH SECEED DIES DURINGTHE DEBATE – WEBSTER SUPPORTS CLAY – (SOUND) SEWARD - GODS MORAL RIGHT TO ABOLISH SLAVERY! WEBTALK

5 TAYLOR AGREES WITH SEWARD – THREATENS TO VETO THE BILL – TEXAS THREATENS TO MARCH ON SANTA FE! TAYLOR DIES SUDDENLY – MILLARD FILLMORE BECOMES PRESIDENT & SIGNS THE BILL

6 1. CALIFORNIA ENTERS AS A FREE STATE 2. ABOLISH SLAVE TRADE IN D.C. 3. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW – NORTH MUST HELP CAPTURE RUNAWAY SLAVES & RETURN THEM TO THE SOUTH 4. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN TERRITORIES 5. TEXAS PAID $10 FOR BORDER DISPUTE

7 GOOD BYE TO OLD FRIENDS

8 GOOD PRESIDENTIAL QUALITIES, BUT MAKES BAD DISICIONS ABOUT FILLMORE ANTI-SLAVERY WHIG PARTY SPLITS IN HALF NORTH & SOUTH

9 STRONG UNIFIED NATION OF ECONOMIC & MORAL PROGRESS ACHIEVED BY FREE MEN LAND OF COMMERCE, ENTERPRISE, EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY INDIVIDUALISM, EQUALITY, MORALITY, SMALL TOWN VALUES REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT - OTHERS

10 SOCIAL VALUES – COURTEOUS, REFINED, GENTEEL SOCIETY DEOMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT BASED ON LOCAL CONTROL AND STATES RIGHTS PERSONAL INCOME 15% HIGHER THAN IN NORTH WITH 35% OF THE POPULATION – 15% OF THE INDUSTRY

11 PIERCESCOTTDEMOCRAT PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF 1850 WHIG PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF 1850 & FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

12 TAYLOR DISLIKES COMPROMISE PIERCE MEXICAN WAR GENERAL A HERO OF MANY WELL FOUGHT BATTLES!

13 PIERCE SCOTT DEMOCRAT WHIG WHIG PARTY DYING

14 HANDSOME FRANK FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE, BUT PRO-SOUTH WIFE HATES POLITICS EXPANSIONIST SLAVEOCRATS JEFFERSON DAVIS

15 AMERICA IS A MODEL OF FREEDOM CONTINUE MANIFEST DESTINY INTO SOUTH AMERICA? ADMIRAL PERRY IN JAPAN

16 USA ATTEMPS TO BUY CUBA – PERFECT FOR PLANTATIONS MEETING IN EUROPE – BETWEEN U.S. MINISTERS – SPAIN SHOULD SELL CUBA OR USA CAN SPONCER REVOLUTION EVEN INVADE! SPAIN REFUSES NORTH & EUROPE UPSET

17 BOOK DEPICTING THE LIFE OF AN ESCAPING SLAVE WITH A CRUEL MASTER HARRIET BEECHER STOW BEST SELLER (300,000 SOLD) MANY NORTHERNERS START TO DISOBEY THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW AFTER READING THE BOOK HATED IN THE SOUTH

18 PROPOSED BY DOUGLAS – WANTS THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WITH NORTHERN ROUTE – MONEY ACT SETS UP TWO TERRITORIES WITH POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY PIERCE SUPPORTS BILL – NORTHERN WHIGS DISLIKE BILL –DESTROYS WHIG PARTY DOUGLAS THINKS CLIMATE WILL PREVENT THESE SOON TO BE STATES FROM CHOOSING SLAVERY SOUND

19 1. SLAVERY – MORAL, SOCIAL, & POLITICAL EVIL 2. REPEAL KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT 3. AGAINST THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY 108 MEMBERS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1854

20 RACE TO SETTLE KANSAS (IOWA & MISSOURI) NORTH FREE SOILERS SEND PEOPLE FROM NEW ENGLAND 1854- KANSAS ELECTS PROSLAVERY CONGRESSMEN & LEGISLATURE – 6,000 VOTES ONLY 2,000 RESIDENTS - PIERCE INVESTIGATES BUT DOES NOTHING! KANSAS HAS TWO GOVERNMENTS SLAVE (LECOMPTON) & FREE (TOPEKA)

21 BOTH SIDES RECRUIT MEN TO FIGHT FIGHTING RESULTS IN OVER 200 DEATHS KANSAS CONTINUES TO BE DESTOYED! PRECURSER TO CIVIL WAR NEW GOVERNER WITH FEDERAL TROOPS

22 KANSAS DEBATE HEATS UP IN CONGRESS SEN. BUTLERS NEPHEW BEATS SUMNER WITH A CANE ON THE SENATE FLOOR! SUMNER SEN. SUMNER (ABOLITIONIST) GIVES CRIMES AGAIST KANSAS SPEECH – SOUTH FEELS INSULTED BROOKS

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