HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Fugitive Slave Laws, James K. Polk, Missouri Compromise

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 105
• Professor: John Lenihan

Document Summary

William walker -> nicaragua -> president of nicaragua for about a month but. Created nativism -> only wanted the white americans. Fugitive slave act -> southerners can go find their runaway slaves and bring them back. Douglas wanted to build a railroad and get rid of missouri compromise and 36"30" line -> popular sovereignty. Confiscation act- 1861 -> lincoln saw that the slaves were essential to the confederacy. South fought mainly for state"s rights and slavery. Sherman march kinda ended the war (atlanta) Bloodiest battle -> gettysburg -> take place in the north -> the south were not allowed back in the north. Lincoln"s plan -> lenient -> let the south come to u. s. -> attempts reconstruction acts. 10% of state had to pledge, had to give blacks certain rights, create their own state constitutions lead to literacy tests, black codes, vagrancy laws, and sharecropping. Pass the weight davis bill -> 50% of total population instead of 10%