HIST 2610 1st Edition Lecture 31 Outline of Last Lecture NullificationOutline of Current Lecture The Nullification CrisisWhig PartyThe Missouri Compromise Current LectureThe Civil War-Was not about slavery, but states rights. What was the right of the states? What did they have the right to do?to allow slavery to expand out into the new territories that were being brought in as states. If slaves are not longer allowed in these territories it means that no more slave states will be created. As more and more free states come into the union, the slave states will become so dominated in Washington, that eventually the non-slaveholding areas would have enough power to dictate what the south could and could not do. The southerners took up arms to come to a solution to this problem. The Nullification Crisis Southerners argued that the tariffs after the era of good feelings was over, the south said that the progression of industry took a toll on southerners. South Carolina decided that if they did not like a law that was passed that they would just nullify it. Jackson sent federal troops to march into South Carolina. Very few people wanted war at this point. Henry Clay, the great compromiser worked to come up with compromising tariff that allowed both sides to back down and proclaim victory. But South Carolina politicians made a statement going into the election of 1860 that if a republican is elected that they will pull out of the union. South Carolina had the fortitude to These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Whig Party Very strong in Georgia and North Carolina. As we get into the 185os the northern wing of the party was taken over by abolition leaning wigs. Southerners can no longer abide by a party that disagrees with such a fundamental issue. They leave the Whig party and become democrats. Alexander H Stevens. On the 21st of March 1861, he gave a long speech for 2 hours without notes. -Stevens is speaking for the group that owned the larges number of slaves that were politically powerful in the south. Gave this speech in savanna Georgia. -The difference of opinion over slavery is the ultimate reason for disruption. Compromises - political compromise over slavery (basically all of the compromises we have discussed) Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and the Dred Scott Decision. Dred Scott invalidated the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri CompromiseTime and again the supports are kicked out from under these compromises.The Southerners by 1859-1860, actually believed that northern Politicians mean to destroy the South’s ability to make money and support its economy. South Carolina then decides that there is not compromise to be made because there were others who wanted to destroy them.The ones who have power and money in the south are the ones who are able to take it to succession. They become no longer worried about the slavery, however, and become more concerned that the Yankees are going to take away their quality of
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