AP Chapter 13-2

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AP Chapter 13-2
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Following Mexican War and Defeat of the Wilmot
Proviso

• Expansion of slavery into the territories is the
  critical question

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Free Soil Movement

• NOT abolitionist
• Wanted to preserve west for yeoman farmers

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Frederick Douglass

• Father/master
• Autobiography
• Lectures w/ Garrison
• Split w/ Garrison
• The North Star

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1849 Gold Rush

• Statehood for CA would disrupt balance in the
  Senate (15-15)

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Options for slavery in the territories

• Calhoun slavery legal everywhere
• Extend Missouri Comp line to Pacific
• Stephen Douglas Popular Sovereignty
• Chase/Seward eliminate slavery altogether

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Debate and Compromise

• Clay, Webster, Calhoun
• Compromise of 1850
• CA free state popular sovreignty elsewhere
• Texas cedes terr to NM
• Slave trade ended in DC, stricter Fugitive Slave
  Law

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States Rights and Slavery

• Nullification
• Property rights?

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1851 Uncle Toms Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Northern Fears of the Slave Power Planter
Elite
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Expansion and Growth

• Since 1800 tripled in size, pop. Grew from 5.3
  million to 23 million
• Too large???

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1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas
• Lecompton Constitution
• Sack of Lawrence
• John Brown Pottawatomie Creek

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1857 Dred Scott Decision

• Taney Scott cant sue, Congress cant prohibit
  slavery

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Election of 1856

• 79 voter turnout

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1858 Lincoln Douglas Debates

• A house divided against itself

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1859 - John Browns Raid

• Single most divisive event?

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Election of 1860
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Southern Secession

• S.C. first
• 6 more before Lincolns inauguration
• 4 more following fort Sumter
• Importantly, 4 slave states remain in the union

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Norths Options

• Let em go
• Compromise
• Force them to stay

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Establishment of Confederacy
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Lincolns Inauguration

• Death Threats
• Inaugural Address