HIST 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Free Soil Party, Wilmot Proviso, Mexican Cession
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Career long, army officer nothing to do with politics. Two major war heroes that came out of mexican conflict. Whigs took a stand in the north and the south. Let people decide whether slavery be allowed in territory. Debated back and forth in the floors of congress. Seeked vengeance bc he didn"t receive democratic nomination. Nominated reformed slaveholder from kentucky for president - james g. bernie. California thought to come in as free state. Southern laws - if visibly black, assumption you were a slave. Passed as compromise between southerners and northerners. One of the legislative bills that were passed as part of the compromise of 1850 was a new version of the fugitive slave act. At first, clay introduced an omnibus bill covering these measures. Calhoun attacked the plan and demanded that the north cease its attempts to limit slavery. Question whether he was poisoned - no.
