HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Free Soil Party, Millard Fillmore, Pottawatomie Massacre
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Lewis cass (mi: supported popular sovereignty policy, free soil party, martin van buren (ny) - former president, supported free soil policy, whig party. Both whigs and democrats divided: taylor supported admission as a free state. Federal government seized and returned fugitive slaves to south: no legal rights for accused fugitives. Strengthened abolitionist movement in north: nativism, five million irish and german immigrants (1845-1860) German revolution of 1848: most were non-english and non-protestant (catholic, irish mostly catholic, germans catholic, produced backlash against immigration and immigrants. Anti-catholicism: stigmatized as inferior and dangerous, nativism prejudice against immigrants. Sabbatarianism enforce sabbath sunday blue laws: irish whiskey and german beer. Bible-reading in public schools: led to discrimination against immigrants, election of 1852, whigs supported nativism. Immigrants opposed the whigs, voted democratic, dominated northern cities: whig party declined during election of 1852, whigs winfield scott (cid:523)va(cid:524)
