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 * __A) Pro- and Antislavery Arguments__ **

Pro: • Pro- Slavery people, had many ideas or arguments on why slavery should maintain as a right in the U.S. LIST OF ARGUEMENTS: 1. Slaves were considered property of their owners. Therefore, if they took away their slaves they would be taking away there property, which would violate rights to property. 2. Slave owners fought to say that slaves were essential to the southern economy because if they didn't have them or if they had to pay them then production and profit would decrease 3. Also during westward Expansion, they believed that there should be slavery in new states because they couldn't run their farm harvest crops without the slaves that they always had Anti: · Anti - Slavery people, had a strong moral belief that went against slavery Argument: 1. Abolitionists didn't think it was right for the Southern people to keep slaves because it was not constitutional. That is why they wanted slavery abolished and or not expanding to the west.


 * __B) Compromise of 1850 and Popular Sovereignty__ **

U.S. had recently acquired new lands in the west after the Mexican - American War. However there was much debate to wether the states would be a slave state or a free state. The American government needed to keep balance between free and slave as well. In 1850 Henry Clay proposed a compromise that would hold the union together for the time being. There were five bills within the compromise.

 Compromise of 1850


 * 1) California would ultimately be admitted as a free state
 * 2) The new lands of New Mexico and Utah would be left up to popular sovereignty ( the people within the land would decide )
 * 3) The Republic of Texas gave up lands that it claimed in New Mexico and received $10 million to pay its debt to Mexico.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The slave trade was abolished in the Washington D.C.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Fugitive Slave Act became it official, claiming that any slave that ran away would have to be returned to there rightful owner. If not, the person would be fined

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Popular Sovereignty** was the idea that the the people with in the state would decide if the state would become free or slave.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Compromise of 1850 was the first time that popular sovereignty was introduced to America under the circumstance of a slavery issue

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__C) The Kansas - Nebraska Act ﻿ and the Emergence of the Republican Party__** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__//﻿//__the Senator of Illinois, Stephen A. Douglas,wanted to build a transcontinental railroad through the kansas - Nebraska. However the areas would need to be settled before he could do so. North wanted the region free so that southerners could not trade/ smuggle slaves to the west. In order to settle the whole issue, Douglas wrote the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854. It included three bills within it <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿The provisions included
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Kansas Nebraska Act was just another conflict in the fight to keep the balance between free state and slave state


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿recognized the territoriess of Kansas & Nebraska
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Admission of Kansas and Nebraska would be decided by Popular Sovereignty
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Repealed the Missouri Compromise ( really upset the North)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> > <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Examples of Bleeding Kansas > >
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Popular Sovereignty completely failed as it just fought fire with fire. The admission of Kansas is known as "Bleeding Kansas" because of the ruthlessness that people on each side of this argument.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Charles Brooks & Preston Sumner - Tensions even reached the House of Representatives when Preston Brooks (Southern Democrat) beat the bag out of Charles Sumner after a speech he made on the subject of the admission of Kansas.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">﻿Pottawatomie Massacre - John Brown murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers in one night, leaving their bodies as a threat to all pro-slavery settlers

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There was one party - Democrats .. With Tensions rising within congress North and South The Republican Party would emerge when Northerns joined the whig party and formed what is still known today as the Democratic Parties

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**__﻿D) Abraham Lincoln, the Election of 1860 and Secession__**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Abraham Lincoln wasn't realized for his political status until his debates with Illinois Senator, Douglas <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Election of 1860 was more than an election because if the democratic president won than the Union would fall apart.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The election was between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Southern Democrat John C. Breckenridge <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As we all know Lincoln won. However he was more worried about keeping the nation as one as opposed to abolishing slavery.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Secession
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Right after the election many southern states were outraged that Lincoln won
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In result states started secede from the Union left and Right

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> List of Secession


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">South Carolina - December 20, 1860
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mississippi - January 9, 1861
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Florida - January 10, 1861
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alabama - January 11, 1861
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Georgia - January 19, 1861
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Louisiana - January 26, 1861
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Texas - February 1, 1861
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Virginia - April 17, 1861
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Arkansas - May 6, 1861
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">North Carolina - May 20, 1861
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tennessee - June 8, 1861