HISB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Free Soil Party, Preston Brooks, White Southerners
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The 1850s: from sectional difference to sectional crisis: the compromise of 1850, bleeding kansas, dred scott. Keywords: wilmot proviso (1846); the slave power ; fugitive slave law (1850); kansas- Nebraska act (1854); popular sovereignty ; dred scott v. sandford (1857). There were sections called the north, south, and the west (new territories: by the early 19th century, these sections were different socially, and economically, northerners are pioneering; urban and industrial world; farming. The mexican war of 1846-1848: this war brought a lot of land into the united states (particularly california) In 1850, there was an escalating series of political confrontations: are you going to allow slavery into the territories out west: the decision would come about the future of the united states. There was a sense that the whole country was at stake: the north didn"t want slavery in the west; the south wanted slavery in the.