HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Millard Fillmore, John C. Breckinridge, Preston Brooks
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Growing sense of defensiveness in the s (backwards, not market economy) Us has extensive trade network w/ europe, want to go into asia. Us opens trade w/ japan 1854 (perry) due to us having cool tech. Makes south uneasy, b/c everything shown to japan was industrial, not agri. Us display at world fair, most didn"t pay attention at s" display, mostly n"s. Cotton"s reign as king becomes challenged by industrial stuff. Uncle tom"s cabin put human face on slavery, attack on southerners. Conveys general sentiments, fire ups anti-slavery, makes slavery seem bad. Very popular (300k copys yr1), s worries it doesn"t have much sympathy in the n. Kansas-nebraska act 2 territories, people in territories decide on slavery. Kansas tries to create a legislature via voting, 1k missourians sneak over to vote. Kansas becomes pro slavery, governor tries to do another election. 2nd election establishes antislavery legislature, 1st legislature doesn"t let them in.
