Hist 1054/15/19. Jackson Democrats – John C Calhoun militant pro slavery party as a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act. Under go major changes, as they increasingly become a militant party. American Party; Know Nothing Party – trying to fill the void the area that was left with the death of the Wig Party. First anti-immigration party of America. Slowing becoming a protestant religious country, Using the issue of slavery in the west to further their issues and not just address the actual problems associated with the institution.The Third American Party System in America, Democrats and Republicans. White republican anti-slavery position and abolitionist. The white republican anti-slavery position stands on two beliefs, slave power conspiracy – free labor could not coexist with slave labor/ free labor. There was a slave power thatwas hell bent onto putting slavery into every corner of the US. Southern Rights movement; slavery is truly a national institution, US congress has duty to protect, promote and foster slavery into the US. Southern Slave holders had dominated the US Presidency/ Southern Slaver holders have overseen the country since the beginning. Constitution allowed the Slave trade to function for 20 years, fugitive slave laws united states government to say that congress has to help south to capture and hand over back. Northern Free States had to follow rules meant for Southern Slave states even though Slavery wasn’t followed in the North. Scare Tactic with Slave Power support the republican party, Slavery is growing and expanding it’s not just a southern thing. Free labor must compete while slave labor is made rich, they are socially and culturallydegraded and made poor. In a slave holding society there is no room for ordinary white middle-class folks are going to made into poor white trash. There is proof in the south, the non-slave holders of the south are poor white trash. Anti-slavery but also anti-black at the same time, most republicans are racist they wanted the US to remain white country. They wanted the West to be a second chance for just whitepeople, they didn’t want any African Americans; slave or free to be in the west. Even some abolitionists are racist, stand for an immediate end to slavery; first important voice for abolitionist was William Lloyd Garrison, immediate and spontaneous end to slavery. Completely denounces slavery -to the extent that the constitution could be seen as a pro – slavery, it was described as coveted with death and
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