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Federal gov cannot help people to recover property

COMPROMISE OF 1850
- The context
- The compromise

Wednesday, December 2d
- 1850 Compromise:
- CA admitted as free state
- Other territories from Mexico undecided
- Slave trade banned in DC
- 1850 Fugitive Slave Act
- Must aid in capturing fugitives
- Would post signs to warn of nearby slave catchers
- Black & White openly apposed this law
- Reactions:
- Save up money and purchase
- Attack slave catchers
FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT (1850)
- The law
- Its impact

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Break into court rooms/jails to free slaves

- Starting to get Ugly between North and South
- Before this, Federal Government decided whether or not states were
admitted as free or slave state
- New standard: Popular Sovereignty
- People in those states decide
- Taking federal government out of picture
- Has consequences:
- nullifies Missouri Compromise
- Under this would have been free states
- Leads to violent & intense struggle in Kansas between pro and anti
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DRED SCOTT V. SAN[D]FORD

- The issues
- The decision (1857)
forces.
pro and anti flooded in to effect outcome
Issues effect everyone
- His master took him to several free areas
- Are you still a slave?
- Sued for freedom
- He sues in Federal Court
- Loses case in State court
- MUST BE A CITIZEN OF THE US TO SUE IN FEDERAL COURT
- Is he a citizen?
- Rules against him in both issues.
- may keep property if taken into free slaves
- No blacks are citizens of the United States
- No right to sue in Federal Court
- Was no actual definition of a citizen in the constitution
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HARPERS FERRY RAID (1859)

John Brown

14th amendment later on

John Brown
- Willing to kill, self defense, as active engagement to help liberate slaves.
- Was involved in Bloody Kansas (Kansas-Nebraska Act)
- decided to massacre 5 pro slavery in retaliation for anti murders
- already popular for using violence
- Decided him & 18 others (4 black) to raid Federal arsenal
- able to capture it
- meet with resistance
- lead by: Robert E Lee
- Majority of his followers are killed
- Eventually all are captured
- All hung
- Variety of responses:
- Pro: Look how far they are to go to free slaves! Crazy
- Made more Anti sympathetic to the use of violence to end slavery
- Last Nail in the coffin

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REPUBLICAN PARTY (1854 - 60)

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Rise of the Republican Party

Republicans & Slavery blacks

Rise of the Republican party

Able to redefine the issue of slavery
Not an Abolishionist party
Anti Westward expansion
Define slavery as an institution that negatively effects whites
- Turn into issue that effects white
- rather than effecting slaves
Took jobs away from White
Believed that AA should have citizen status
did not think they should be garenteed political or social rights
Some thought colonization was good idea
The Star is Abe Lincoln
- 1860 ran for president
Lincoln and Douglas debate:
- L: Not about equality Black and White
- Keep slavery out of new territories
- Keep it in the south
- Personally:
- Found it morally wrong
- States should decide what type of rights slaves should have not federal
- This allows Repubs to gain ground
- Achieve presidency
- AA abolitionists
- worst nightmare of using political to end slavery
- (anti slavery but also anti black- view)
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SECESSION & CIVIL WAR

- Secession, CIvil War (1861 - 1865)
- - Lincoln War Policy

Douglass goes back and forth

- Basically everyone left the union
- Emancipation Proclamation
- DID NOT END SLAVERY EVERYWHERE
- declared that all slaves that were living in states that were reeling
against the union were free
- Does not apply to 4 states that didnt leave the union
- any states recaptured were not affected
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RECONSTRUCTION (1865 - 1877)

REDEFINING BLACK RIGHTS
- 13th Amendment (1865)
- 14th Amendment (1868)
- 15th Amendment (1870
- [ Civil Rights Act (1875)]

He isnt really in charge of these states and therefore must win war
in order for this to apply
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EXAM 3 NOTES

13th actually ends slavery

14th is in response to dredd scott
- defines citizen
15th black men get the right to vote
Civil Rights Act: social equality
- public accombinations
- BANNED discrimination in MOST public places
- Short lived, declared unconstitutional
- Supreme court trying to reign in power
- State rights issue:
- has the right to pass laws to determine

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