HIST 1483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Pacific Railroad Surveys, Millard Fillmore, Fugitive Slave Laws
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A house divided against itself: the crisis of the 1850s. December 5, 2016: a slaveholder"s republic, slaveholders in the federal government. Thomas jefferson: author of the declaration of independence. James madison: principal architect of the federal constitution. Supreme court: 59% slaveholders, 3 of 5 chief justices. Congress: 57% of presidents of the senate, 71% of speakers of the house. Presidency: 60% slaveholders, 9 of 15 presidents before lincoln. Slaveholders and western expansion: thomas jefferson and louisiana purchase. James k polk and oregon and mexican cession: dreams of a caribbean empire. Northern support for cuban annexation: millard fillmore (whig, franklin pierce (democrat, both of those parties relied on southern voters so they had to support the southerners. Filibusters: southerner funded trips to places in the golden circle that were intended to over throw the current governments in central. America so that they could take control and rewrite their constitutions and bring back slavery: the southern transcontinental railroad.
