The Compromises Flashcards
Who propose the amendment to emancipate the children of Missourian slaves once they reached 25 and prohibit further slaves from entering?
New York’s Representative James Tallmadge
When did new territory become available?
Oregon 1846
California 1848
New Mexico 1848
When and where was the gag rule in effect?
It was passed in1836 in the House of Representatives and was repealed in 1844
When was the Wilmot Proviso?
What did it say
August 1846
Slavery should be prohibited in the territory gained from Mexico
What was outcome of the voting on the Wilmot proviso?
It passed in the house 83 to 64, all Southern democrats and all but 2 Southern Whigs voted against it, most Northerners voted for it
It did not pass in the Senate.
When was the Calhoun Doctrine?
What did it say?
1847
The federal gov had no authority to legislate on where citizens took their property and if the South continued to be marginalised they would have no choice but to secede.
What were the terms of the 1850 Compromise?
1) California was admitted to the Union as a free state
2) The remaining land were organised into territories New Mexico and Utah who would decide whether to permit slavery by popular sovereignty
3) Texas relinquished disputed land to New Mexico and received $10,000 to pay off debts to Mexico
4) Slave trading was banned in the District of Columbia
5) A new, harsher fugitive slave law was created in which Northerners had to drop everything to join a posse or pay a $1000 fine
What did Joshua Giddings say about the fugitive slave act?
What was done to resist it?
“The president could drench our land in blood but he can never make us obey the fugitive slave act’
Personal liberty laws were passed in 9 Northern states to counteract the fugitive slave act
The Northern Vigilance Committees worked in conjunction with the Underground Railroad to protect escaped slaves
When was Uncle Tom’s cabin written?
What was it’s impact
- In the first year 300 thousand copies were sold, abolitionism became a more mainstream Northern view
Southerns criticised the novel and produced anti-Tom literature like ‘Aunty Phillis’ Cabin. One bookseller in Alabama was forced to leave the town for selling the book
Impact of the 1850 compromise on the nashville convention?
only half the delegates showed up in Nov 1850 (compromise reduced support for secession)
What happened in the South in the 1851 elections for the House of Representatives?
Most of the South returned Whigs
Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama returned 14 Unionists and only 5 Southern Rights candidates
(showing unionism was popular in the South in 1851)
What was the Georgia platform
A statement made by the Georgia convention in response to the 1850 compromise stating that no further assaults on Southern rights would be acceptable.
What did Democrat Salmon Chase say about the Kansas Nebraska act?
What about preacher Theodore Parker?
It was a gross violation of a sacred pledge; a criminal betrayal
‘Slave power carries the day’
What was the voting on Kansas Nebraska like?
Sectional, although Douglas made it a test of party loyalty.
90% of Southerners voted for it; 64% of Northerns. Of the Northern democrats, 44 stayed loyal to the party and supported the act, 43 refused and voted against it.
When was Charles Sumner attacked?
21st May 1856
