1850 Nashville Convention 9 Southern States Fire EatersSouthern

1850 Nashville Convention • 9 Southern States • “Fire Eaters”-Southern Extremists Threaten Secession Over California Statehood

New Fugitive Slave Law • National, State, Local Officials • Fines & Jail Terms For Assistance • Fugitives-No Counsel, No Jury, No Testify in Defense • Special Commissioner-$10 or $5

Northern Responses • Vigilance Committees-Escape to Canada • Personal Liberty Laws • Nullification? ? ?

Election of 1852 • D- Franklin Pierce-Compromise of 1850 & Popular Sovereignty • W-Winfield Scott-Party Splits Over Slavery • ***End of Whigs • ***Last Candidate to Win N & S Regions

1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Evils of Slavery-Physical & Mental Abuse, Separation of Families • Uncle Tom Whipped to Death by Overseer Simon Le. Gree • Tremendous Social Impact in N & S

Manifest Destiny Continues? • Southern Filibuster to Acquire Cuba Cancelled • 1854 Ostend Manifesto-US Agrees to Purchase or Seize Cuba • Walker Filibusters-Attempts by Southerners to Take Nicaragua

1854 Kansas Nebraska Act • Stephen Douglas (Ill. )-Railroad Route From Ill. To Ca. • Route Must Pass Kansas/Nebraska Territories • Needs Southern Votes • Allows Popular Sovereignty Above 36 30

Results • Missouri Compromise Repealed • Abolition Movement Increases • Free States Unwilling to Compromise in Future • Democratic Party Splits • Birth of Republican Party-Stop Expansion of Slavery

Republican Coalition • Conscience Whigs, Northern Democrats, Free Soilers, Know Nothings • ***Not on Southern Ballots