Causes for the Breakdown of North South relations/ growth of tensions/ increased
northern hostility toward south / greater threat to the Union/ outbreak of hostilities
RANKING BASIC INFO (dates, numbers, facts) It’s importance was LIMITED in the breakdown of Justification of position
North-South relations because … …
It is more/ less
important than other
OR
It links to my argument
because ..
K-N Act - First instance of violence - Issue largely resolved by 1858 as most of
1854 - Steven Doughlas – wants railroad violence from the Bleeding Kansas had
to connect eastern terminal to be subsided and compromise reached to delay
in Chicago. Kansas’ statehood and was later admitted
- Reappealed the Missouri in 1861 as a free state
Compromise of 1820 and allowed - North and South had always been divided
the possibility of new slave states particularly in relation to the expansion of
north of the 36 30 line which slavery which is proven by the
threatened balance establishment of the earlier 1820 Missouri
- Expansion of slavery provided Compromise
south with additional way of - Lecompton Constitution - was rejected and
preventing congress from faced strong opposition from north aimed
interfering with slavery to solve it
- Divided the Democratic party on - Lecompton Constitution 1857- provided
sectional lines -> political divides voters with choice to either accept pro
- Collapsed the Whigs and rise of slavery constitution as it was or accept
Republicans another constitution which banned future
- Bleeding Kansas 1854 -> importation of slaves.
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society sent - Douglas election 1850 in Illinois – re-
settlers into Kansas to ensure it would be elected
free, but Missourians responded by
sending in pro-slavery groups resulting in
violence.
- ‘Bleeding Kansas’ to present the fraud,
intimidation and violence experienced
there.
- 55 deaths between 1855 and 1859 -
total deaths near 200
- Idea of popular sovereignty
opened up prospects of other
areas joining the Union as slave
states in the future
- Sumner!
Mexican- - Polk – slaveholder, southern, - Issue solved by the 1850 Compromise – but
American Slave power conspiracy then issue of Fugitive Slave Act
War - Resulted in acquisition of new - Postponed full scale conflict
1846-48 territories = 2/5 of current US - Impact of war limited to the south who
Include territory: New Mexico, California, sought to expand slavery as much of the
Texas into Texas and others. Treaty of acquired land was unsuitable for slavery
this Guadalupe Hildago 1848 and plantations
- Dangerous to not expand slavery
into new lands as slaves began to
outnumber whites
- High concentration of slaves in
southern slaves
- Could have slaves revolts and
violence
- North opposed expansion of
slavery into new land as believed
limit industry and abolishing of
slavery impossible
- War cost USA $100 million and
13,000 deaths
- Wilmot Proviso 1846 –
amendment that would exclude
slavery from any land gained
from Mexico. Opposed by a few
southerners.
1850 - Included the Fugitive slave act - Texas was already a slave state which
Compromis - Gave the north California which pleased the south
e angered the south as they gained - Personal liberty laws in the north and plus
more land. not much violence from this compromise
- Popular sovereignty into states as seen in other places
Utah and New Mexico which -
caused issues later – took away
decisions about slavery in new
territories from congress and
gave it to the people
- Border dispute between Texas
and New Mexico was settled in
favour of New Mexico
- Slave trade ended in Washington
-> criticised by South
Fugitive - Authorised federal marshals to - Resistance to the act exaggerated by both 1850 compromise –
Slave Act form posses to pursue slaves in northerners and southerners = lack of gave North California
northern hostility toward south / greater threat to the Union/ outbreak of hostilities
RANKING BASIC INFO (dates, numbers, facts) It’s importance was LIMITED in the breakdown of Justification of position
North-South relations because … …
It is more/ less
important than other
OR
It links to my argument
because ..
K-N Act - First instance of violence - Issue largely resolved by 1858 as most of
1854 - Steven Doughlas – wants railroad violence from the Bleeding Kansas had
to connect eastern terminal to be subsided and compromise reached to delay
in Chicago. Kansas’ statehood and was later admitted
- Reappealed the Missouri in 1861 as a free state
Compromise of 1820 and allowed - North and South had always been divided
the possibility of new slave states particularly in relation to the expansion of
north of the 36 30 line which slavery which is proven by the
threatened balance establishment of the earlier 1820 Missouri
- Expansion of slavery provided Compromise
south with additional way of - Lecompton Constitution - was rejected and
preventing congress from faced strong opposition from north aimed
interfering with slavery to solve it
- Divided the Democratic party on - Lecompton Constitution 1857- provided
sectional lines -> political divides voters with choice to either accept pro
- Collapsed the Whigs and rise of slavery constitution as it was or accept
Republicans another constitution which banned future
- Bleeding Kansas 1854 -> importation of slaves.
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society sent - Douglas election 1850 in Illinois – re-
settlers into Kansas to ensure it would be elected
free, but Missourians responded by
sending in pro-slavery groups resulting in
violence.
- ‘Bleeding Kansas’ to present the fraud,
intimidation and violence experienced
there.
- 55 deaths between 1855 and 1859 -
total deaths near 200
- Idea of popular sovereignty
opened up prospects of other
areas joining the Union as slave
states in the future
- Sumner!
Mexican- - Polk – slaveholder, southern, - Issue solved by the 1850 Compromise – but
American Slave power conspiracy then issue of Fugitive Slave Act
War - Resulted in acquisition of new - Postponed full scale conflict
1846-48 territories = 2/5 of current US - Impact of war limited to the south who
Include territory: New Mexico, California, sought to expand slavery as much of the
Texas into Texas and others. Treaty of acquired land was unsuitable for slavery
this Guadalupe Hildago 1848 and plantations
- Dangerous to not expand slavery
into new lands as slaves began to
outnumber whites
- High concentration of slaves in
southern slaves
- Could have slaves revolts and
violence
- North opposed expansion of
slavery into new land as believed
limit industry and abolishing of
slavery impossible
- War cost USA $100 million and
13,000 deaths
- Wilmot Proviso 1846 –
amendment that would exclude
slavery from any land gained
from Mexico. Opposed by a few
southerners.
1850 - Included the Fugitive slave act - Texas was already a slave state which
Compromis - Gave the north California which pleased the south
e angered the south as they gained - Personal liberty laws in the north and plus
more land. not much violence from this compromise
- Popular sovereignty into states as seen in other places
Utah and New Mexico which -
caused issues later – took away
decisions about slavery in new
territories from congress and
gave it to the people
- Border dispute between Texas
and New Mexico was settled in
favour of New Mexico
- Slave trade ended in Washington
-> criticised by South
Fugitive - Authorised federal marshals to - Resistance to the act exaggerated by both 1850 compromise –
Slave Act form posses to pursue slaves in northerners and southerners = lack of gave North California
