California joins as a free state
- Moderate bills passed in order to stop a civil war happening
- Popular sovereignty bills passed to please and appease
- Northern democratrs called for the missouri compromise line to be etxended to the pacific
- South gets desperate and signs the Compromise of 1850
| For the North | For the South |
|---|---|
| California joins as a free state | Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which was done under the threat of secession - Turn in slaves or face a fine - suspends habeus corpus - sets up rigged courts in favor of the south, you could be jailed just for being black - get sent back into slavery |
| Abolished slave trade in DC | Popular Sovereignty determines issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico |
| Resolved border dispute in favor of New Mexico | |
| The north becomes involved in slavery even though slavery only happens in the south |
Zach taylor dies and Filmore goes into office and signs the bill into law
- Fire eaters hold conventions in the deep south to prepare for southern secession if slavery is threatened
Response to Fugitive Slave Act
Election of 1852
- Pierce wins, doesn’t touch slavery
Some used violence to stop slave catchers
- uncle toms cabin was nonviolent, but provocative
- Common sense of civil war
- Personal Liberty Laws restart habeus corpus
- guarantee personal rights
Pierce makes the gadsden purchasr from mexico to make a transcontinental railroad
- pierce supported takeover of cuba also but abandoned it when ueurope issued the ostand manifesto
Political parties are institutions that hold sections together because it forces people to choose a package deal of beliefs, if one doesn’t agree they don’t support the party.
Kansas Nebraska Act
- Interest in builidng a transcontinental railroad was peaking
- Norhterners wanted it to be connected to Chicago, while southern wanted New Orleans or St. Lous
- Creates Nebraska and Kansas as popular sovereignty states
- Goes against Missouri Compromise but passes as both are north of the line
- Caused the whig party to become anti slavery
- Causes Whig party and second party system to dissolve