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B.Whigs (Anti-Jackson)- federal financing (roads), activist government fostering economic developments |
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Separates cotton from its seeds automatically, because of this fewer hands are needed to separate cotton from the seed, and now slaves can pick more cotton and makes the trade more profitable |
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| massive religious conversion and switched from lawyer to preacher, converted many abolitionists, sin = selfishness and applied this belief to the concept of slavery |
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1.Journalist- started the New England Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Societies.
2.Technique of moral-suasion: slavery is immoral
3.More people start to talk about slavery- debates at colleges
4.South rebels with biblical references to justify slavery |
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Started by abolitionists, but 3rd parties never do well because you must have a majority in the electoral colleg |
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SW cotton competing with SE cotton |
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| South Carolina Exposition and Protest |
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| Slavery was becoming more important in politics in |
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A.Whigs- Zachary Taylor (war hero) other candidates Martin Van Burren (free soil)
B.In 1849
1.NM is a slave state and CA is a free state |
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| Millard Filmore and he passes the Compromise of 1850 |
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Franklin Pierce wins (D)
protest voting starts |
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| Lopex? Officer in New Orleans |
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| gains support to go concur Cuba but it epically fails and he is executed, Spain is mad |
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| Talks to Spanish to buy Cuba, Spain says no, Soule starts war. 1854- South wanted war, but we end up not going to war |
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Popular Sovereignty
B.Kansas was the problem, Kansas was above the MC line, all states above would now be up for grabs
May 30th 1854 KN was signed into law, MC was repealed |
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1856
Elections are full of fraud, anti- slavery and pro slavery are there
2nd state government in Lawrence
Bleeding Kansas- everyone has guns
Pierce sends in troops to stop violence |
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Freemount vs. Buchanan
Buchanan wins |
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| A.Bad economy- North blames South because cotton is only thing selling. West now looking to S. |
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| Speaker chosen after Sherman is rejected |
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A.Allows railroads to stay up for the Unions supplies
B.Now the sides were aligned |
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Opponent for Lincoln
Becomes his Sectary of State
Goes to SC to try and stop secession |
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