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Prelude to War 1850-1860
Election of 1860
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of 1850
Introduced by the Free-Soilers in Congress.
Congress has the power to determine under what conditions new states will be admitted into the Union.
Slavery would not be allowed in the land acquired in the Mexican cession.
Northern Whigs approved
The Northern states planed on using this power as a means of phasing out the institution of slavery.
Southern Democrats opposed
New Mexico and California's admission as a slave state, based on the Missouri Compromise would have created an imbalance in Congress in favor of the slave states.
BILL FAILED
Bleeding Kansas
Free-Soilers v Pro-Slavery
Setting the Stage for War
Manifest Destiny
1857
Dred Scott
"Squatter Sovereignty"
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Free-Soilers supported the policy.
Industrialization
The idea arose to allow the new states to
determine if state would be free or slave through popular sovereignty.
Mass Immigration
Slavery
Missouri Compromise