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POLITICS OF SLAVERY

POLITICS OF SLAVERY. COMPROMISE OF 1850 DUE TO THE GOLD RUSH,CALIFORNIA POPULATION HAD GROWN ENOUGH TO APPLY FOR STATEHOOD. CALIFORNIA’S NEW CONSTITUTION FORBADE SLAVERY. SOUTHERN OPPOSITION OF CALIFORNIA. SOUTHERN STATES THREATENED SECESSION. COMPROMISE OF 1850.

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POLITICS OF SLAVERY

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  1. POLITICS OF SLAVERY • COMPROMISE OF 1850 • DUE TO THE GOLD RUSH,CALIFORNIA POPULATION HAD GROWN ENOUGH TO APPLY FOR STATEHOOD. • CALIFORNIA’S NEW CONSTITUTION FORBADE SLAVERY. • SOUTHERN OPPOSITION OF CALIFORNIA. • SOUTHERN STATES THREATENED SECESSION.

  2. COMPROMISE OF 1850 • HENRY CLAY WORKED TO SHAPE THE COMPROMISE THAT BOTH THE NORTH AND SOUTH COULD ACCEPT. 1. NORTH • CALIFORNIA ADMITTED AS A FREE STATE • SOUTH • PROPOSED A NEW TOUGHER FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. • TO APPEASE BOTH SIDES, A PROVISION ALLOWED POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR OR AGAINST SLAVERY.

  3. COMPROMISE OF 1850 • WHAT 2 TERRITORIES WERE INVOLVED IN THE COMPROMISE OF 1850? • NEW MEXICO AND UTAH

  4. POLITICS OF SLAVERY • KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT- PROPOSED BY SENTOR STEPHEN DOUGLAS. • TO DOUGLAS, POPULAR SOVEREINTY WAS AN IDEAL WAY TO DETERMINE IF SLAVERY WOULD BE ALLOWED IN THE NEBRASKA TERRITORY. • THE DIFFICULTY OF THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT WAS IT’S TERRITORY WAS NORTH OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE AND WAS CLOSED TO SLAVERY.

  5. POLITICS OF SLAVERY • KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT WAS PASSED IN 1854. • BOTH SUPPORTERS RUSHED TO KANSAS TO STAKE THEIR CLAIM ON THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY. • HOW DID THE ADVOCATES FOR SLAVERY WIN THE ELECTION?

  6. POLITICS OF SLAVERY • DRED SCOTT DECISION • SUPREME COURT CASE WHEREBY SCOTT WAS TAKEN FROM MISSOURI (SLAVE STATE) TO A FREE STATE ILLINOIS, AND FREE TERRITORY WISCONSIN, AND THEN BACK TO MISSOURI. • SCOTT APPEALED TO THE SUPREME COURT FOR HIS FREEDOM.

  7. POLITICS OF SLAVERY • ON MARCH 6, 1857 THE SUPREME COURT RULED AGAINST DRED SCOTT. • THE COURT RULED SCOTT LACKED ANY LEGAL STANDING TO SUE IN FEDERAL COURT BECAUSE HE WAS NOT A CITIZEN, AND NEVER WOULD BE. • THE COURT RULING WAS BASED ON THE 5TH ADMENDMENT, CITING A PERSON COULD NOT LOSE PROPERTY, INCLUDING SLAVES.

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