AMH 2010 Chapter Notes -United States Territorial Acquisitions, Missouri Compromise, Culture Of The Southern United States

• School: University of Florida
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMH 2010
• Professor: Jeffrey Adler

Document Summary

Southern culture was bought by southerners because of how inbred the institution of slavery had grown. Not many northerners didn"t care to have free slaves. Northerners didn"t want slaves to travel up north and take their jobs. Irish immigrants were pro-slavery: both north and south were concerned with how the world would turn out, north wanted free states, south wanted slave states. Never forget that the working class didn"t want the nastiness of immigrants to infect their children: society needed to be cleansed. North saw the south as lazy and disgusting. Kansas-nebraska act: splitting kansas and nebraska post-repeal of missouri compromise, kansas would become a slaved state, nebraska free state, kna popular sovereignty ruled. Caused many different elements to rush to the side of their favor. John brown gathers abolitionists and trains people to fight back: encourage slaves to rebel, assert dominance over masters, white prisoners talked to jb during his revolt. Us supreme court deemed slaves to be property.