Differences Between the North and South

Missouri Compromise (1820) 1819 – the U.S. had 11 free & 11 slave states   Balance in the Senate Expansion into Louisiana Purchase   Missouri Territory requested admission as slave state Solution   Missouri admitted – slave   Maine admitted as separate state – free   No slavery above southern border of MO in future (36°30’ Line)

Prelude to Civil War? “But this momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell [funeral bell] of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.” -Thomas Jefferson “I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it.” -also T.J.

Prelude to Civil War? “But this momentous question, like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell [funeral bell] of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.” -Thomas Jefferson “I take it for granted that the present question is a mere preamble – a title page to a great tragic volume.” -John Quincy Adams

Compromise of 1850 Again – debate over expansion   California – Gold Rush! Henry Clay (KY) proposed 8 resolutions   CA – free state/Rest of Mexican cession could be slave   Settled border dispute w/Texas & New Mexico   Outlawed slave trade, but not slavery, in DC   Congress: hands off internal slave trade/Fugitive Slave Act Compromise ended talk of secession

The Constitution and the Union “I wish to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American…I speak to-day for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause…There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession. Peaceable secession is an utter impossibility…I see as plainly as I see the sun in heaven what that disruption itself must produce; I see that it must produce war, and such a war as I will not describe…” -Daniel Webster (MA)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) Question over expansion into Nebraska Territory

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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) Question over expansion into Nebraska Territory   South wanted Missouri Comp. repealed Stephen Douglas (IL) proposed two states in territory   Kansas & Nebraska Popular Sovereignty   Voters would decide slavery issue in these new states   "The great principle of self government is at stake, and surely the people of this country are never going to decide that the principle upon which our whole republican system rests is vicious and wrong.“ -Stephen Douglas

Bleeding Kansas

Brooks attacking Sumner Richmond Enquirer: Sumner should be caned "every morning", praising the attack as "good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences“

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) Question over expansion into Nebraska Territory   South wanted Missouri Comp. repealed Stephen Douglas (IL) proposed two states in territory   Kansas & Nebraska Popular Sovereignty   Voters would decide slavery issue in these new states After Effects:   Republican Party formed   Kansas-Nebraska set US on road to war