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1850 Nashville Convention
• 9 Southern States
• “Fire Eaters”-Southern Extremists Threaten Secession Over California Statehood
New Fugitive Slave Law
• National, State, Local Officials
• Fines & Jail Terms For Assistance
• Fugitives-No Counsel, No Jury, No Testify in Defense
• Special Commissioner-$10 or $5
Northern Responses
• Vigilance Committees-Escape to Canada
• Personal Liberty Laws
• Nullification???
Election of 1852
• D- Franklin Pierce-Compromise of 1850 & Popular Sovereignty
• W-Winfield Scott-Party Splits Over Slavery
• ***End of Whigs
• ***Last Candidate to Win N & S Regions
1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Evils of Slavery-Physical & Mental Abuse, Separation of Families
• Uncle Tom Whipped to Death by Overseer Simon LeGree
• Tremendous Social Impact in N & S
Manifest Destiny Continues?
• Southern Filibuster to Acquire Cuba Cancelled
• 1854 Ostend Manifesto-US Agrees to Purchase or Seize Cuba
• Walker Filibusters-Attempts by Southerners to Take Nicaragua
1854 Kansas Nebraska Act
• Stephen Douglas (Ill.)-Railroad Route From Ill. To Ca.
• Route Must Pass Kansas/Nebraska Territories
• Needs Southern Votes
• Allows Popular Sovereignty Above 36 30
Results
• Missouri Compromise Repealed
• Abolition Movement Increases
• Free States Unwilling to Compromise in Future
• Democratic Party Splits
• Birth of Republican Party-Stop Expansion of Slavery
Republican Coalition
• Conscience Whigs, Northern Democrats, Free Soilers, Know Nothings
• ***Not on Southern Ballots