4-8 Ch 14 ID's

Daniel Webster

• Who: senator, supporter of Compromise of 1850, northerner
• What: he disapproved that the north was trying to get rid of slavery. He was one of many that supported the Compromise of 1850. He also said that slavery is like cotton farming, because it’s hard to farm in some areas. 
• Where: United States
• When: 1850
• Sig: Daniel was one of a few northerners who spoke out against the north trying to legally to get rid of the expansion of slavery. He also showed his support for the Compromise of 1850 and he condoned the slave holders in the south.

Henry Clay’s omnibus bill and the Compromise of 1850

• Who: politician from Kentucky, leading Whig member, proposed Compromise of 1850
• What: Clay proposed the Compromise of 1850, the compromise proposed: California enter as a free state, division of Mexican territories, settle border dispute between Texas and New Mexico, pay debt to Texans, stop slave trade in DC, and add a more effective fugitive slave law.
• Where: United States
• When: 1850
• Sig: the significance was that it allowed popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah territories, even though New Mexico sat below the Missouri Compromise line. This gave the voters a choice to be a slave or free territory. This weakened the Missouri Compromise by letting California be a free state, and allowing the territories to choose.     

Millard Fillmore

• Who: politician, Vice President, President
• What: he finalized and passed the Compromise of 1850. He said this was the “final settlement” of sectional divisions. Each section of the country gained and lost from the passing of the compromise. He also passed this in order to keep the country together and not let is split apart.
• Where: United States
• When: 1850
• Sig: the significance of Millard is that he tried to make the compromise appeal to every section of the US. These are one of the final attempts to try to keep the country from splitting. This compromise also allowed for a more effective fugitive slave law.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Anthony Bus, and personal-liberty laws

• Who: North, South, slave-catchers, slaves, Anthony Bus
• What: the act denied slaves to: trial by jury, testify on their own behalf, had to return back if claimant testifies. It allowed slave-catchers to get slaves who have run away long before the act was passed. Anthony Bus was a fugitive slave saved by a Boston mob to stop the act from continuing in the north, the president sent troops to escort him back to slavery.  Personal liberty laws were used to stop state officials from enforcing the law.
• Where: Northern United States
• When: early 1850’s
• Sig: the significance is that whites in the north began fighting for the stop of this act. They would start mobs, protest and pass laws that would make state officials to stop enforcing the law. This is one of the first signs of the north getting tired of the south slavery and how they want to stop it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Who: famed evangelicals daughter, writer, novel she wrote
• What: Harriet wrote a novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, this book brought sympathy to fugitive slaves from whites in the north. It portrayed the Fugitive slave act as a horror and an outrage. The booked showed how a slave named Tom helped a girl from drowning, father bought him, but when died, widow sells him to other slave owner and that owner whips him to death. The book demonstrated how slavery tore a family apart.
• Where: Northern United States
• When: 1852
• Sig: the book shared the life of a slave and this brought much sympathy from northern whites. This pushed for an aggressive stance against slavery, and the south.