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Missouri Compromise, 1820
Henry Clay
Manifest Destiny!
Texas Annexation and Mexican Cession
Compromise of 1850
H.Clay
Webster
Calhoun
Stephen Douglas Millard Fillmore
Compromise of 1850
• California enters the Union as a free state.
• No more slave auctions in Washington D.C.
• Texas receives 10 million in compensation.
• Popular Sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah.
• A new fugitive slave law.
Stephen Douglas wanted to be president. !So he proposed the Kansas and Nebraska Act
Essentially allowing slavery to spread anywhere in the country.
Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
• Popular Sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska Territories.
• “Bleeding Kansas”
Kansas Nebraska Act
Pro slavery and Anti slavery.
But not everybody wanted slavery to spread.
The Kansas and Nebraska Act got Abraham Lincoln back into politics.
He never liked slavery, but felt it was constitutionally protected where it already existed. !!He didn’t want it to spread.
Lincoln’s comeback speech at Peoria, Indiana.
Dred Scott Case 1856