HIST 3071 Chapter : Final Guide Chapter Brackets
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1854: steven douglas (founder of compromise) repealed the compromise w/ kansas nebraska act. Railroad routes (northern, central, southern) building the transcontinental railroad. Douglas never believed kansas as a slave state. ^not enough rainfall to develop cultivated land for slaves to work. ^temperance party limit sale & consumption of alcohol. > associated immigrants w/ intemperance (due to alcohol) > feared german immigrants (suspected abolitionists; overthrew princes) ^no traction in south, except new orleans & mississippi (minority whig party) ^1856: democratic party reported this the know nothing party . ^1860: 21 million in north; 6 million in south (democrats) ^nativist whigs they were going to change nature of the country. ^1881: californians banned chinese, then japanese, from immigrating into u. s. *republican abraham lincoln not on ballot anywhere. John breckenridge, steven douglass, and bell were only choices. White southern fear anti-slavery president appointing anti-slavery to federal gov"t & supreme court. Cooperationists (2nd group) wanted other southern states to form w/ while succeeding.
