BIOL 1209 Chapter : 20140425 123035
Document Summary
Great political divide- whig vs. republican; 1850s whigs disintegrate over slavery; north vs. south- almost every northern whig voted against provisions benefitting south in. Americans at this time wanted to be in parties: Anti-slavery politics- focus on free soil party, combining northern whigs and. Democrats try to please across the nation not north or south republicans looks to the free states to win national election and wrote off slaves states; there were. Republican message focuses on florida; equate with northern society: laborers have social mobility and economic advance, associated with progress. Republicans not pro black however, no civil rights movement at all. 7% in states that could vote; most state free blacks not allowed to vote, lived in large cities. Illinois- free blacks couldn"t vote, no public school, state militia, not allowed on juries, by some point not allowed to emigrate in state.
