HIST 1376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Fugitive Slave Laws, Southern Democrats, Free Soil Party
25 Jul 2016
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Northerner offer a free soil alternative, work by free people and prohibition of slavery and african. Southerners support slavery alternative, and the labor system of slavery. California sought to enter the union as a free state, but would upset the even balance. Additional unorganized territory, worried that these territory would added into six slave state. Abolitionist are growing increasingly frustrated by the continuous slavery support in d. c. Southerners, pro-slavery, become very frustrated, but lacks enforcement of the fugitive slave laws because the northerners aren"t participating in the slave law. Want to negotiate a compromise, put together a compromise deal to congress, but it failed to pass to congress. He supported clay"s idea, but the issue is putting a compromise deal together. He breaks up the deal and pass it individually, and all passed collectively. Organized the remaining territory gained from mexico and use popular sovereignty. Outlaw the slave trade in d. c, meaning no more auction block of slave in d. c.
