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California part 2
1. The Fight for Slavery in California
An article by James M. McPherson
Themes reviewed and presented by:
Stephanie Kastner
HIST 141 (71154)
2. Wilmotโs Proviso
โข Created by David Wilmot, a Congressman from
Pennsylvania.
โข Explained that any land acquired from Mexico will not
become a territory that allows โslavery nor involuntary
servitude.โ
โข Due to a 15/15 split of the Northern (free) state
Senators and the Southern (slave) state Senators, the
Proviso was blocked.
โข This would lead to the disunion of the states as part of
the Civil War.
3. Natural Limits Thesis
โข Slavery could not expand past eastern Texas because it
had reached its โnatural limits.โ
โ Slaves were used in cotton fields and the cotton fields
were only in the South.
โ Thus no man would take his slaves to the west.
โข The Civil War was unnecessary
โ โSlave Powerโ did not exist, but was a political campaign
used by Northern US politicians to scare Americans.
โ This fear aided in the election of Lincoln in 1860.
4. To have slaves or not to have slaves?
โข PRO
โข CON
โ Many Gold Rushers
already had slaves and โข Forty Niners would have
were bringing them to to compete for the jobs
the west. they were already doing.
โ African slaves were used
to working in the hot โข Change the balance of
conditions. power in the eastern US
โ Slaves were ideal for the
labor of mining.
โ Rice and cotton could
also be harvested in
southern California.
5. The shots that possibly started and
ended the Civil War
โข David Terry challenged David โข 30 years later, Terry found
Broderick to a duel in 1859. himself involved in another
โ Terry was a well-known Chiv dispute, but with Stephen J.
in the โChivalryโ Democratic Field.
wing. โข Terry sought revenge
โ Broderick was in competition against Field after Field
for the head of the had imprisoned Terry and
Democratic Party. his wife for contempt.
โ Terry one the coin toss and โข When Terry located Field
opted for pistols that he had at a train station, he
brought, which provided him slapped Field to initiate
with the advantage. the duel.
โ Terry survived the duel,
killing Broderick with one โข This resulted in Fieldโs
shot after Broderickโs early bodyguard shooting Terry.
shot went array.
1859 Manhattan โNavyโ Revolver