Hist 1000 Lecture 27 Outline of Last Lecture The Reproduction of Slavery and Geographic ExpansionGeographic Expansion as an Attempt to Secure Slavery- The Problem of Soil Exhaustion- The Agricultural Reform Movement and Slave Resistance- The Inter-Regional Slave Trade: Salvation or Disaster?Expansion as Itself Destabilizing to Slavery as an InstitutionThe Separation of the Slave Family- Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Increasing Abolitionist Popularity- Slaveholder’s Attempts at Domestic ReformOutline of Current Lecture Factors in the Formation of the Republican Party- The Liberty Party Goes Mainstreamo Drop “Extraneous” issueso Attack the “Slavepower”o Become Political: Freedom National, Slavery Sectional- Threat from the Northern Right Wing: The Know Nothingso Continued Economic Development in the Northo Class Conflict and ImmigrationFormation of the “Know Nothings” (Order of the Star Bangled Banner)- Geographic Expansion and the Formation of the Free Soil PartyCurrent LectureThe Rise of the Republican Alternative: Free Labor, Free Men, Free SoilThese 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.Factors in the Formation of the Republican Party- The Liberty Party Goes Mainstreamo Drop “Extraneous” issues Left commitment to women’s rights behind They had to accept that the most pressing issue was slaveryo Attack the “Slavepower” Committed to the abolition of slaveryo Become Political: Freedom National, Slavery Sectional Since slavery is in the Constitution, it is legal and should be morally acceptable. The North does not have it, and the south believes that the north is seceding- Threat from the Northern Right Wing: The Know Nothingso Continued Economic Development in the North They worried about people are being turned into wage slaves- They blame the Irish, blame the immigrants (Nativism) o Class Conflict and Immigration Irish were forced to immigrant because of the potato famine o Formation of the “Know Nothings” (Order of the Star Bangled Banner) Gained lots of local state power Controlled every state office in Massachusetts and most of the state legislature Wanted to protect protestants o Geographic Expansion: A Better Opportunity for the Working Class- Geographic Expansion and the Formation of the Free Soil Partyo Where can we expand? Oregon, Michigan, Mexico, Unorganizedo How can we expand? Mexican American War, 1846-1847o How Will the New Territory Be Admitted?o The Wilmot Proviso, 1846, and the Formation of the Free Soldierso Popular Sovereignty and the Compromise of 1850 Let California in as a free state- Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854, and the Formation of the Republican Partyo Kansas Nebraska Act Splits the Whig Partyo Republican Party as a Sectional, One Issue Partyo Democrats National, Republicans
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