Transcript Compromise of 1850 to Bleeding Kansas PowerPoint Presentation!

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
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 SECEED” 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
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 - BORDER DISPUTE
GOOD BYE TO
OLD FRIENDS
GOOD PRESIDENTIAL
QUALITIES, BUT MAKES
BAD DISICIONS
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 - OTHERS
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
PIERCE
DEMOCRAT
PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF
1850 & FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
SCOTT
WHIG
PLATFORM: COMPROMISE
OF 1850
PIERCE MEXICAN WAR GENERAL
TAYLOR DISLIKES
“A HERO OF MANY WELL FOUGHT BATTLES!”
COMPROMISE
PIERCE
DEMOCRAT
SCOTT
WHIG
WHIG PARTY
DYING
“HANDSOME FRANK”
FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE,
BUT PRO-SOUTH
WIFE HATES POLITICS
EXPANSIONIST
“SLAVEOCRATS”
JEFFERSON
DAVIS
AMERICA IS A MODEL OF FREEDOM
ADMIRAL PERRY IN JAPAN
CONTINUE MANIFEST DESTINY INTO SOUTH AMERICA?
USA ATTEMPS TO BUY CUBA – PERFECT FOR PLANTATIONS
SPAIN REFUSES
MEETING IN EUROPE –
BETWEEN U.S. MINISTERS
– SPAIN SHOULD SELL CUBA
OR USA CAN SPONCER
REVOLUTION EVEN INVADE!
NORTH & EUROPE UPSET
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 DOUGLAS – WANTS
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
WITH NORTHERN ROUTE – MONEY
ACT SETS UP TWO TERRITORIES
WITH POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
CLIMATE ON NORTH’S SIDE?
SOUND
PIERCE SUPPORTS BILL – NORTHERN
WHIGS DISLIKE BILL –DESTROYS WHIG
PARTY
108 MEMBERS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1854
1. SLAVERY – MORAL, SOCIAL, & POLITICAL EVIL
2. REPEAL KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
3. AGAINST THE EXPANSION
OF SLAVERY
RACE TO SETTLE KANSAS (ABOLITIONISTS &
MISSOURI)
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)
BOTH SIDES RECRUIT MEN TO FIGHT
FIGHTING RESULTS
IN OVER 200 DEATHS
NEW GOVERNER WITH FEDERAL TROOPS
KANSAS CONTINUES TO BE
DESTOYED! PRECURSER TO CIVIL WAR
KANSAS DEBATE HEATS UP IN CONGRESS
SEN. SUMNER (ABOLITIONIST) GIVES
SUMNER
“CRIMES AGAIST
KANSAS”
SPEECH – SOUTH FEELS INSULTED
SEN. BUTLER’S NEPHEW BEATS
SUMNER WITH A CANE
ON THE SENATE FLOOR!
BROOKS