Transcript fugitive slave law

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
THE OLD GUARD’S (CLAY, CALHOUN, WEBSTER) LAST HURRAH
WEBTALK
CLAY SUGGESTS A COMPROMISE
– MAKES OVER 70 SPEECHES
-”NATURE ON YOUR SIDE”
CALHOUN TOO SICK TO READ OWN STATEMENTS
–” LET SOUTH SECEDE” DIES DURINGTHE DEBATE
– WEBSTER SUPPORTS CLAY – (SOUND)
SEWARD - “GOD’S MORAL RIGHT TO ABOLISH SLAVERY!”
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
Compromise reached:
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 - GAVE UP LAND
GOOD PRESIDENTIAL
QUALITIES, BUT MAKES
BAD DESICIONS
ANTI-SLAVERY
WHIG PARTY SPLITS IN HALF
NORTH & SOUTH
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
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
Franklin Pierce
Winfield Scott
DEMOCRAT
PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF
1850 & FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
WHIG
PLATFORM: COMPROMISE
OF 1850
Southerners trust him!
Mexican War Hero
PIERCE
DEMOCRAT
SCOTT
WHIG
WHIG PARTY
DYING
“HANDSOME FRANK”
FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE, BUT
PRO-SOUTH
WIFE HATES POLITICS
EXPANSIONIST
“SLAVEOCRATS”
JEFFERSON
DAVIS – becomes a
player
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
PROPOSED BY STEPHEN DOUGLAS –
WANTS
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
WITH NORTHERN ROUTE – MONEY
ACT SETS UP TWO TERRITORIES
WITH POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY – they
can decide if they will allow
slavery or not
Located on NORTH’S side?
SOUND
PIERCE SUPPORTS BILL – NORTHERN
WHIGS DISLIKE BILL –DESTROYS WHIG
PARTY
108 MEMBERS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1854
1. SLAVERY – IMMORAL, SOCIAL, & POLITICAL EVIL
2. REPEAL KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
3. AGAINST THE EXPANSION
OF SLAVERY
RACE TO SETTLE KANSAS (ABOLITIONISTS & MISSOURI –
pro-slavery)
1854- KANSAS ELECTS PROSLAVERY
CONGRESSMEN & LEGISLATURE –
6,000 VOTES ONLY 2,000 RESIDENTS
- PIERCE INVESTIGATES BUT DOES
NOTHING!
Kansas has 2 governments:
Slave - (LeCompton) & Free (Topeka)
Pierce would only recognize
LeCompton
BOTH SIDES RECRUIT MEN TO FIGHT
Sack of Lawrence
~ 800 men rode to
Lawrence to arrest
the antislavery
leaders (they had
left) so the mob
burned Lawrence
Pottawatomie Massacre
“fight fire with fire”
John Brown & his men killed 5 pro-slavery
men. They dragged them from their
cabins and killed them with swords.
Kansas went into civil war ~ results
in about 200 deaths
NEW GOVERNER WITH FEDERAL TROOPS
KANSAS CONTINUES TO BE DESTOYED! PRECURSER TO CIVIL WAR
KANSAS DEBATE HEATS UP IN CONGRESS
SEN. Charles Sumner, abolitionist, gives
“CRIMES AGAINST KANSAS”
SUMNER
speech– SOUTH
FEELS INSULTED
(personally insults Sen. Andrew Pickens
Butler.
BROOKS
SEN. BUTLER’S NEPHEW BEATS
SUMNER WITH A CANE
ON THE SENATE FLOOR!