Chapter 13 Flashcards
How did southerners view abolishionists?
extremesits
Many northerners were commited to free labor which was
slavery undermined the value and dignity of hard work and that many white people
were also marginalized in places were slave labor was predominant.
What did this lead the Republican party to cheer for?
“Free Soil, Free
Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men.”
Why did Southerners trust new president Taylor?
Own slaves and a plantation
Why did Taylor proposed to admit New Mexico and California as states?
He liked Union
WHat did the South think about this?
They threatened succession if both states were added as free states
What was one of Clays compromises to this proble?
admit California as a state but organize New Mexico under a territorial government
with no “restriction or condition on the subject of slavery.” As a territory, New Mexico
would have no votes in the Senate, a key concern of slaveholders in Congress since
they were certain—probably rightly—that New Mexico would opt to enter the union
as a free state.
Clays Second Compromise
giving more land to New Mexico and
giving Texas $10 million to pay of the debts of the former Republic of Texas
Clays Third Compromise
abolished the slave trade but not slavery itself in the District of Columbia.
Clays Fourth Compromise
a law enhancing slaveholders’ right to reclaim slaves who fled north
How did members in Congress react to the Compromises?
They disliked it, thought it didnt go far enough
How did Webster feel about the Compromises?
He advocated for them, but then lost support in Massachusetts and other abolitionist states
After Taylor died and FIllmore became president, what did he think of the compromise?
He liked it and had him and his new senators forge a final compromise close to Clays
The Final Compromise:
California was admitted as a free
state; New Mexico and Utah were organized as territories with no votes in Congress; the slave trade but not slavery was prohibited in the District of Columbia; and Texas happily accepted the $10 million in exchange for a less expansive border with New Mexico.
The biggest separator in the Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act
South and North issues with the compromise
South: condemned the compromise
and affirmed the right of secession
North: the vigorous enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act would soon become intolerable,
What did the Supreme Court say about the Fugitive Slave Act
It was ok for slaveholders to capture their runaway slaves
WhaFedrt was the new system for catching runaway slaves?
Federal agents would capture runaway slaves, then federal commissioners would determine if the slave was actually a slave (Commissioners were paid a double fee
every time they found that a person was a fugitive slave)
How did free blacks feel about this?
Worried because it would be hard to prove they were free
With all of the division due to slaves, what did most southerners think?
Thought the North and South shouldnt be in the same country
What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write to help with slavery?
Uncle Toms Cabin
Stowes life
Stowe had spent many
years in Cincinnati, Ohio, and had herself seen slavery directly across the Ohio River
in Kentucky. Cincinnati—a city that faced the Ohio River and from which one could
see the slave state of Kentucky on the far shore
What was this book considered
best selling book of the century
What was the book about?
A kind slave who had an evil owner, slave crossed the Ohio River to escape slavery