UNITED STATES HISTORY I
LECTURE OUTLINE NINE
- FOUR WAYS TO DEAL WITH SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES
- THE ELECTION OF 1848
- volatility of the question of slavery in the territories
- 1848 Free Soil Party and the discontent of the Northern Democrats
- Zachary Taylor's victory
- continuing Southern discontent over the Wilmot Proviso
- the proposed Nashville Convention
- THE COMPROMISE OF 1850
- background and Taylor's objections
- Clay's proposals and Douglas's solutions
- the various components of the Compromise
- THE ELECTION OF 1852
- the weakening of the Whig Party as a national organization
- further disintegration of the Whigs into Cotton and Conscience factions
- FACTORS, ISSUES, AND EVENTS THAT AROUSED SECTIONAL ANIMOSITY AND WEAKENED THE DEMOCRACY
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Stephen Douglas's motivation
- features of the Act
- the South's interest
- far-reaching consequences of the Act
- further weakening of the Whigs and Democrats
- birth of the Republican Party
- Ostend Manifesto--tainted Manifest Destiny
- the rise of the American Party (the Know-Nothings)
- The Election of 1856
- the emergence of two separate parties as the second party system became further sectionalized
- The 1857 Dred Scott Decision
- further erosion of popular sovereignty as a tool of bisection accommodation for the Democrats
- the Lecompton Constitution Controversy--alienation of Buchanan and Douglas
- THE ELECTION OF 1860
- Yancey Plank in the Alabama state convention
- Charleston Convention and the Yancey Plank--the Democrats split
- Constitutional Union Party
- Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln--the moderate platform of 18960
- Two separate elections in 1860
- Lincoln vs. Douglas in the free states
- Bell vs. Breckenridge in the slave states
- The Election of 1860 witnessed the death of the Second Party System and the onset of two sectionalized parties