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• Missouri Compromise Repealed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