Friday Nov. 20 Flashcards
Election 1848
Issue of slavery is having impact (North v. South) examples... Democrats -splitting up Whigs -splitting up too Free Soil -new party -Democrats and Whigs, that did not want slavery to expand -candidate: Martin Van Buren North splitting votes -Henry Clay; -Zachary Taylor how he got elected: (popular hero persona; South= man who owned slave view; North= willing to ban slavery in the west view)
Overall importance: politics- branding your persona
Election of 1852
Not a big deal; overall importance: slave a big role,
Franklin Pierce: unify nation, to please both north and south, nothing much was done.
Railroad to west coast
Build transcontinental railroad…where?
-North and South want it on their side
-Stephen A Douglas wanted it on the North.
-Lousiana Territory not much of states yet
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Douglas created act.
-Take land away from Indians
-Railroad from this area to the west coast
QUESTION: what to do about slavery?
-Please everyone: popular sovereignty; let people decide
-South; could go west and north
-North; concern expanding slavery not containing
-Act passed through
Consequences- gets rid of Missouri Compromise
-lead us to Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Scott
- born in slave state of Virginia
- both free areas where he lived originally
- Missouri
- lived in free state; sue for freedom
- local: decided in his favor
- state: ruled against him
- Supreme Court: ruled against him
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
- conclusion: Scott, never was a citizen in the first place, was a slave, did not have a right to place a request like he did
- Missouri Compromise against constitutional rights: slave owner rights should be protected.
Problem: Popular Sovereignty (Stephen A. Douglas)
-state wants slavery?
Republican Party
Forming 1854-1856
- promote people who are anti slavery
- slavery is negative
- closer to election of 1860
- growing as events occur in U.S.
Kansas Territory elections
- become state
- issue; slavery
- not for Nebraska
- Kansas similar to Texas
- hold plantations
- how do be pro or against slavery
- abolitionist sponsor settlers to go to Kansas
- Missouri
- group go to Kansas (Border roughens); cast pro slavery balance
ILLEGAL election
Pro slavery wins- set up government
Against slavery; sets up their government too
SACK of Lawerence
Pro; go to Lawerence; destroy printing
Pottawatomie Massacre
- take on salvery with extreme slavery
- drag slave owning men, hack men
- leaves; violence between pro and free
- 200 deaths for both sides
Andrew Butler of South Carolina
While things happening in Kansas
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts
Speech while things happening in Kansas "Crime Against Kansas" -talks bad about slave owners -Singles out Andrew Butler -Says about Butler, "best friends with prostitute, pure but really despicable aspect of society"
Preston “Bully Brooks”
South Carolina Congressman
- gets angry
- Brooks walks up to Sumner, beats him with a cane
- leaves when cane breaks
- reelected by S. Carolina when kicked out
- “Hit him again”
- Illustrating pro north.
- Sumner, martyr for North abolitionist
Douglas stops admission of Kansas 1858
Lincoln challenges Douglas of congress spot in Illinois
- Debates famous
- Lincoln, how do balance case of Dred Scott, and popular sovereignty ?
- Douglas; no conflict, respect private property in Scott case, but also support state rights
- Douglas wins seat in Congress
- Problems with Popular Sovereignty, Bleeding Kansas= ends his political career
- Jumpstart Lincoln’s career with Rep Party
Brown at Harper’s Ferry, 1859
start slave rebellion in south
- go down to Harper’s Ferry
- plan to take arsenal, take weapons, wagon full of pikes
- arm slaves from plantations to plantations
- runaway join cause= major slave rebellion -
Federal troops rally under Robert E. Lee
- seize arsenal
- brown goes to court for going against States
- sent to Gallos
Layers of Historical Identity
Getting into Civil War
-American Identity
-What does Civil War mean
The Dar and Daughters of the Confederacy
- Protection of ones culture
- abolition
- or equality
Election of 1860
Candidates
-Lincoln= Republican
Protective tariff ( protect industry)
Transcontinental railroad (somewhere North
Homesteads (with free soils, family farms in west)
Free soils (slavery contained and die off in time)
he did not say he wanted to abolish slavery in this election moderate was not for it.
Some states did not even put Lincoln on ballot
-South ready to break off when he is elected.
-Douglas; Northern Democrats
-John Breckenridge, Kentucky; states rights
-John Bell- moderate
Republican vote consolidated in north
Other guys- split votes in South (this is how Lincoln wins)
Review: what is happening in politics
-Political parties splitting apart
