Mr. Clifford

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 Industry and Immigration in the North Increase in factories Railroads carried raw materials eastward & manufactured product/settlers westward. Immigrants:  entered industrial workplace  Became voters who opposed slavery (economic reasons)

 Agriculture and Slavery in the South Rural society (plantations & small farms) Produced less than 10% of manufactured goods Few immigrants settled in south. Southern whites feared that any restriction of slavery would lead to a social & economic revolution.

 Wilmot Proviso: any territories acquired as a result of war would be closed to slavery.  Southerners Feared that if Wilmot Proviso became law, the North would acquire more power. House approved it but Senate rejected it.

 1849: California created state constitution that outlawed slavery.  According to Missouri Compromise, California should become a slave state.  President Zachary Taylor: supported California’s admission as a free state Believed territories should determine their own laws on slavery.  Southerners believed this was an attack on slavery and their way of life.

 Issues debated in Senate  California  Boarder dispute between Texas (slave state) & New Mexico Territory (slave issue not settled)  Northern’s wanted slavery abolished in D.C.  Southerner’s accused northern states of failing to enforce Fugitive Slave Act of 1793  Southerners threaten to secede

 Clay’s Compromise To end bitterness in Congress, Henry Clay attempted to create a compromise that would settle, “all questions in the controversy between the free and slave states, growing out of the subject of Slavery.”

 Calhoun’s Goals Believed in state’s rights over federal power Fought for the interests of the slaveholding South Believed that “the agitation of the subject (slavery) would end in disunion. Blamed the crisis on northern abolitionists John C. Calhoun

 Webster’s Goals Slavery should not be extended into the territories. Endorsed Clay’s compromise “for the preservation of the Union…” Daniel Webster

 How did Calhoun and Webster disagree over states’ rights?  How did the compromise try to satisfy both sides?

 Clay left the Senate after the compromise was rejected.  Stephen A. Douglass Reintroduced the resolutions to the compromise to the Senate (one at a time). Senators were able to vote for the individual resolutions they liked/disliked. Southern leaders supported the proposals as being the best the South could secure without radical action.

President Zachary Taylor died and Vice President Millard Fillmore became President. Fillmore supported the Compromise. The Compromise of 1850 was finally voted into law.