QUESTION: SHOULD SLAVERY BE LEGAL IN THE MEXICAN CESSION? CALIFORNIA WANTS TO ENTER THE UNION AS A FREE STATE - UNBALANCE IN THE SENATE – SECESSION?

QUESTION: SHOULD SLAVERY BE LEGAL IN THE MEXICAN CESSION?

CALIFORNIA WANTS TO ENTER THE UNION AS A FREE STATE - UNBALANCE

IN THE SENATE – SECESSION?

SEVEN MONTH DEBATE IN THE SENATE

THE OLD GUARD’S (CLAY, CALHOUN, WEBSTER) LAST HURRAH

CLAY SUGGESTS A COMPROMISE – MAKES OVER 70 SPEECHES

-”NATURE ON YOUR SIDE”

CALHOUN TOO SICK TO READ OWN STATEMENTS –” LET SOUTH SECEED” DIES DURINGTHE DEBATE

– WEBSTER SUPPORTS CLAY – (SOUND)

SEWARD - “GOD’S MORAL RIGHT TO ABOLISH SLAVERY!”

WEBTALK

TAYLOR AGREES WITH SEWARD – THREATENS TO VETO THE

BILL – TEXAS THREATENS TO MARCH ON SANTA FE!

TAYLOR DIES SUDDENLY – MILLARD FILLMORE BECOMES PRESIDENT & SIGNS THE BILL

1. CALIFORNIA ENTERS AS A FREE STATE

2. ABOLISH SLAVE TRADE IN D.C.

3. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW – NORTH MUST HELP CAPTURE RUNAWAY

SLAVES & RETURN THEM TO THE SOUTH

4. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN TERRITORIES

5. TEXAS PAID $10 FOR BORDER DISPUTE

GOOD BYE TOOLD FRIENDS

GOOD PRESIDENTIAL QUALITIES, BUT MAKES

BAD DISICIONS

ABOUT FILLMORE

ANTI-SLAVERY

WHIG PARTY SPLITS IN HALFNORTH & SOUTH

STRONG UNIFIED NATION OF ECONOMIC & MORALPROGRESS ACHIEVED BY FREE MEN

LAND OF COMMERCE, ENTERPRISE, EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY

INDIVIDUALISM, EQUALITY, MORALITY, SMALL TOWN VALUES

REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT - OTHERS

SOCIAL VALUES – COURTEOUS, REFINED, GENTEEL SOCIETY

DEOMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT BASED ON LOCAL CONTROLAND STATES’ RIGHTS

PERSONAL INCOME 15% HIGHER THAN IN NORTH WITH35% OF THE POPULATION – 15% OF THE INDUSTRY

PIERCE SCOTTDEMOCRAT

PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF 1850

WHIG

PLATFORM: COMPROMISE OF1850 & FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

TAYLOR DISLIKES COMPROMISE

PIERCE MEXICAN WAR GENERAL“A HERO OF MANY WELL FOUGHT BATTLES!”

PIERCE SCOTT

DEMOCRAT

WHIG

WHIG PARTY DYING

“HANDSOME FRANK”

FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE,BUT PRO-SOUTH

WIFE HATES POLITICS

EXPANSIONIST“SLAVEOCRATS”

JEFFERSON DAVIS

AMERICA IS A MODEL OF FREEDOM

CONTINUE MANIFEST DESTINY INTO SOUTH AMERICA?

ADMIRAL PERRY IN JAPAN

USA ATTEMPS TO BUY CUBA – PERFECT FOR PLANTATIONS

MEETING IN EUROPE – BETWEEN U.S. MINISTERS

– SPAIN SHOULD SELL CUBA OR USA CAN SPONCER

REVOLUTION EVEN INVADE!

SPAIN REFUSES

NORTH & EUROPE UPSET

BOOK DEPICTING THE LIFE OF AN ESCAPING SLAVE WITH A CRUEL MASTER

HARRIET BEECHER STOW

BEST SELLER (300,000 SOLD)

MANY NORTHERNERS START TO DISOBEY THE FUGITIVE

SLAVE LAW AFTER READING THE BOOK

HATED IN THE SOUTH

PROPOSED BY DOUGLAS – WANTS THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WITH NORTHERN ROUTE – MONEY

ACT SETS UP TWO TERRITORIES WITH POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

PIERCE SUPPORTS BILL – NORTHERN WHIGS DISLIKE BILL –DESTROYS WHIG

PARTY

DOUGLAS THINKS CLIMATE WILL PREVENT THESE SOON TO BE STATES

FROM CHOOSING SLAVERY

SOUND

1. SLAVERY – MORAL, SOCIAL, & POLITICAL EVIL

2. REPEAL KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

3. AGAINST THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY

108 MEMBERS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1854

RACE TO SETTLE KANSAS (IOWA & MISSOURI)NORTH FREE SOILERS SEND PEOPLE FROM NEW ENGLAND

1854- KANSAS ELECTS PROSLAVERY CONGRESSMEN & LEGISLATURE –

6,000 VOTES ONLY 2,000 RESIDENTS - PIERCE INVESTIGATES

BUT DOES NOTHING!

KANSAS HAS TWO GOVERNMENTSSLAVE (LECOMPTON) & FREE (TOPEKA)

BOTH SIDES RECRUIT MEN TO FIGHT

FIGHTING RESULTS IN OVER 200 DEATHS

KANSAS CONTINUES TO BE DESTOYED! PRECURSER TO CIVIL WAR

NEW GOVERNER WITH FEDERAL TROOPS

KANSAS DEBATE HEATS UP IN CONGRESS

SEN. BUTLER’S NEPHEW BEATS SUMNER WITH A CANE

ON THE SENATE FLOOR!

SUMNER

SEN. SUMNER (ABOLITIONIST) GIVES “CRIMES AGAIST KANSAS”

SPEECH – SOUTH FEELS INSULTED

BROOKS