Free Soil Movement

Federalist 10 (revisited)

Missouri Compromise (revisited)

Mexican Territory

Wilmot Proviso

David Wilmot, PA

Northern Democrats

Barnburners

Free Soil

Whigs (Van Buren)

Northern Democrats

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

Prescriptive

Efficient

Dignity of labor

Slavery inhibited social mobility and education

Slavery created poverty in the south

Slavery must be contained

Blacks were to be kept out of the territories

Popular Sovereignty

Lewis Cass, 1848

The charm of ambiguity

Liberty Party, 1839

3 percent of the northern vote

Salmon P. Chase

Compromise of 1850

California as a free state

Henry Clay

Webster’s 7^th of March Speech

Stephen Douglas

Terms: CA as a free state; TX boundary est.; Fed govt. paid TX $10 million; NM and Utah had the right to legislate

Fugitive Slave Act

Nashville convention of Fire Eaters

Liberty Laws