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Chapter 14.1. Growing Tensions Over Slavery. Key Terms and People. Popular sovereignty Secede Fugitive Henry Clay John Calhoun Daniel Webster. Why It Matters. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 helped settle the slavery issue for awhile - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Key Terms and People• Popular sovereignty• Secede• Fugitive • Henry Clay• John Calhoun• Daniel Webster
Why It Matters• The Missouri Compromise of 1820 helped settle
the slavery issue for awhile• The Mexican War which added new territory will
stir the slavery issue again • This renewed the struggle over “states’ rights’
and slavery
Slavery and the Mexican-American War• Still Balanced: 1820-1846: 4 new free states and
4 slaveholding states entered in the Union
The Wilmot Proviso• Missouri Compromise only dealt with Louisiana
Territory• David Wilmot proposed that Congress ban any
slavery in the Mexican Cession• Passed the House of Representative but slide to a
stop in the Senate. Why?
The Antislavery Party• Rise of new political party arose over the issue or
problem of slavery• Democrats and Whigs would not take a stand on
slavery.
Why?
Popular Sovereignty• Proposed by Senator Cass of Michigan that
allowed people made the decision by voting rather or not there would be slavery.
• The Democrats and Whigs that wanted to address the problem of slavery formed the
Free-Soil
Party
Martin Van Buren Again
• Free-Soil Party chooses Martin Van Buren to be there candidate in the 1848 presidential elections
• They called for “free-soil” in the Mexican Cession
Bitter DebatePage 484
• California wants enter the Union as a free State• Upset the Balance• South will secede if admission into the Union will
upset the balance in the Senate• South also angry over the runaway slaves that
many Northerners helped escape • YOU HAVE STOLEN PROPERY and we want
them back.
Henry Clay saves the day!
• He proposed the Compromise of 1850• Daniel Webster supported this compromise• John C. Calhoun was clearly disagreed with this
compromise
Compromise of 1850• California becomes a Free State • The North will return slaves under the Fugitive
Slave Act: • Banned selling slaves in Washington, DC• Popular Sovereignty