dbq (I'm cooked)

Constitution

• 3/5 clause

• fugitive slave clause: apart of society and is legal (made officers capture runaway slaves)

• 1798: issues of fighting over slavery related to the government.

Missouri Compromise

• 36 30 line : above free below slave

• big expansion west, northerners were scared, did not want slavery to expand

• framework for where slavery is allowed

• thomas Jefferson was not fully against but against slavery

• thomas jefferson said that slavery would lead to sectional tensions

comp of 1850

• fugitive slave LAW

• california free state

• New Mexico and Utah admitted with right for popular sovereignty

Kansas Nebraska Act 1854

Kansas and Nebraska admitted with popular sovereignty (leads to bleeding Kansas)

bleeding kansas

• violent conflicts in kansas over slavery

• holding 2 seperate elections and set up 2 governments

• john brown kills pro slavery people, put him in the media as a person who kills people to achieve what he wants

Dredd scott

• enslaved man that was taken to illinois which was a free state and he sued for his freedom

• case was taken to supreme court and their ruling stated that black people are not citizens, they are property, and that they do not have rights.

• Said that slavery exists everywhere, demolishes the missouri compromise

Transcontinental railroad

• asked question whether the railroad would go through a free state or slave state (they would have more power)

• Gadsen purchase: southerners thought they could buy land and build the railroad there

Abraham lincoln

• DOES NOT mention ending slavery

• south is WORRIED about him ending slavery

• south secedes

• South Carolina ALREADY seceded.

John Brown

• raid on harpers fairy

• tried to start a slave rebellion

Presidential leadership

• fillmore: weak, accidental president, doesnt stop comp of 1850, no opinion of slavery

• franklin pierce: oversees kansas nebraska, does nothing to stop sectional tension and slavery

• Buchanan: gay, dredd scott happened under him, south carolina sucedes

Free soil and know nothing

• free soiler - anti slavery bc of economic reasons, could not compete with rich slave owners

• know nothing - against imigration, anti catholic

contextualization

The transatlantic slave trade was the forced migration of many Africans across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas. While the north was opposed to the idea, the south relied on the institution of slavery their economy. After expansions westward, southern states would continue to increase the size of slavery.