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Us history Period 5: Chapter 13: The Union in Peril, [247 - 261] class notes correct and verified 100% Period 5: Chapter 13: The Union in Peril, [247 - 261] Due Date:Tuesday, November 21st Causes of the Civil War - Slavery as a growing moral issue in the North versus its defense and expansion in the South - Constitutional Disputes over the nature of the federal Union and states’ rights - Economic Differences between the industrializing North and the agricultural South over such issues as tariffs - Political Blunders and Extremism on both sides Conflict Over Status of Territories - Issue of slavery prevalent concerning lands gained after Mexican War - Wilmot Proviso (no slavery) would’ve upset the balance of slave and no slave states if passed - Free-Soil Movement - Free-Soil Party - “free soil, free labor, and free men.” - Preventing expansion of slavery; advocated for free homesteads and internal improvements - N Dems and Whigs supported Wilmot Proviso and position all slaves and free blacks should be excluded from the Mexican Cession - Many Northerners who opposed westward expansion of slavery didn’t oppose slavery in S - Keep West a land of opportunity for whites only - 1848: Northerners opposed slavery in W and formed Free-Soil Party - Southern Position - Viewed any attempts to restrict expansion of slavery as a violation to their constitutional rights - Moderate southerners favored extending the Missouri Compromise line of 36°30’ westward to Pacific and permitting territories north of that line to be no slave - Popular Sovereignty (aka squatter) - Proposed by Lewis Cass (Democrat, MI) proposed compromise supported by moderate Southerners and Northerners - Matter of slavery be decided by inhabitants of territory - The Election of 1848 - Democrats nominated Senator Cass--platform pledged to popular sovereignty - Whigs nominated Mexican War hero General Zachary Taylor--no position on slavery - Free-Soil Party nominated Martin Van Buren--”conscience” Whigs and antislavery Democrats (aka “barnburners” b/c defection threatened to destroy Democratic party) - Taylor narrowly defeated Cass The Compromise of 1850 - Gold rush 1849 and influx of many settlers ito CA created need for law and order in West - CA drafted constitution banning slavery - Taylor supported immediate admission of CA and NM as free states - Plan sparked talk of secession among “fire-eaters” (radicals) of South - Henry Clay proposed Compromise to solve political crisis - Admit CA to Union as free state - Divide remainder of Mexican Cession into two territories-Utah and New Mexico-and allow popular sovereignty in areas - Give land in dispute between TZ and NM territory to new territories in return for the federal gov assuming TX

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