History Chapter 10 Section 1

What were the provisions of Henry Clay's proposal to congress in 1850

• California admitted as a free state • Utah and New Mexico territories decide about slavery • Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute resolved; Texas paid $10 million by federal government. • The sale of slaves banned in the District of Columbia. But slavery itself may continue there. • Fugitive Slave Act required people in the free states to help capture and return escaped slaves. California admitted as a free state(north), territory to decide the issue of slavery(both), sale of slaves banned (north), stricter fugitive slave laws (South)

how did the slavery issue affect the debate over the statehood of California

California's new constitution forbade slavery, Southerners assumed that because most of California lay south of the Missouri Compromise line of 36 ̊30', the state would be open to slavery General Zachary Taylor, who succeeded Polk as president in 1849, supported California's admission as a free state. Southerners saw this as a move to block slavery in the territories and as an attack on the Southern way of life—and began to question whether the South should remain in the Union

Compromise of 1850

The Compromise of 1850 was a resolution he hoped would settle "all questions in controversy between the free and slave states, growing out of the subject of Slavery." a series of measures intended to settle the disputes between free states

Popular Sovereignty

Popular sovereignty was the right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery. people living in a territory should make their own decisions

Secession

Southerners threatened secession, the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.

Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas had political cleverness, oratorical skill, and personal drive that he used engineered the passage of the Compromise of 1850 when all of the efforts of senatorial warriors, such as Clay, had failed. Douglas later became the well-known opponent of Abraham Lincoln in both a senatorial and a presidential election. Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850

Millard Fillmore

Taylor's successor, Millard Fillmore, made it clear that he supported the compromise. In the meantime, the South was ready to negotiate. Calhoun's death had removed one obstacle to compromise. Southern leaders came out in favor of Clay's individual proposals as being the best the South could secure without radical action. After eight months of effort, the Compromise of 1850 was voted into law. 13th president-signed Compromise of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

Wilmot Proviso: Democrat David Wilmot heightened tensions between North and South by introducing an amendment to a military appropriations bill proposing that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in any territory the United States might acquire as a result of the war with Mexico. In strictly practical terms, the Wilmot Proviso meant that California, as well as the territories of Utah and New Mexico, would be closed to slavery forever. Bill that banned slavery in the new territory acquired from Mexico (didn't pass)

Why did some people oppose the Compromise of 1850

because they felt they had a right to have slavery in the new territories Northerners to try to compromise with the South by passing a stricter fugitive slave law, and he warned Southern firebrands to think more cautiously about the danger of secession.

what did president zachary taylor think of the compromise

he opposed it

How did President zachary taylor death affect the compromise

his successor President Millard Fillmore supported the compromise. After 8 months it was voted into law in 1850