COMPROMISES

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COMPROMISES

• Protective Tariffs
• And
• Land Issues

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ARE COMPROMISES A GOOD THING?

• YES
• ABLE TO SATISFY BOTH SIDES
• AVOID CONFLICT OR WAR

• NO
• SIMPLY PUT THE SLAVERY ISSUE ON THE SHELF
• CIVIL WAR RESULTS ANYWAY

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Constitutional Convention

• Despite beliefs of unalienable rights for all
  men, the founders had to compromise their views
  when it came to the slavery issue.

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THREE FIFTHS COMPROMISE
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HAMILTONS FINANCIAL PLAN

• EXCISE TAX ON WHISKEY
• PROTECTIVE TARIFF- TO PROTECT AMERICAN INDUSTRY
  FROM BRITISH COMPETITION
• ASSUMPTION OF STATE DEBT
• NATIONAL BANK
• INDUSTRIALIZATION

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JEFFERSONIAN VIEW

• STATES RIGHTS- VA and KT Resolutions
• FARMERS
• FRENCH REVOLUTION
• COMMON MAN
• AGRARIAN SOCIETY

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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WESTWARD MOVEMENT

• Sectional tensions mount with the addition of new
  territories

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NULLIFICATION CRISIS

• 1827
• protect American industry from British
  competition
• High tariff bill .37 on the dollar
• Andrew Jackson
• John C. Calhoun
• Henry Clay

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ANDREW JACKSON
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JOHN C. CALHOUN
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HENRY CLAY
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Northern View

• Need an American Policy that will support our
  UNITED States of America
• Stimulate our industry and protect our factories
• We cannot support foreign trade
• Better to buy American- will keep money in
  America
• Protect against the dependence on foreign goods
  by placing a tariff

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Western View

• Tariff opposition from cotton and tobacco
  planters in the South
• Trade without a protective tariff will result in
  MISERY, BANKRUPCY, and, RUIN.
• We buy from abroad everything we eat, drink and
  wear
• Factories of the New England states need to
  succeed to buy wheat, corn, and hogs form the
  western farmers

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Southern View

• Foreign cotton is serving as a major competition
  to our domestic cotton
• It is British policy to buy cotton that buys the
  most manufactured goods from them
• The protective tariff will destroy our cotton
  economy as it will result in ending trade
  between the British and the United States
• Favors the interests of the northern factory
  system only

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Reactions

• South Carolinas Exposition and Protest
• Force Bill of 1832
• Compromise of 1833

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Despite the resolution of the Tariff of 1833 and
the nullification of the Force Act, Calhoun
states his fear that, the struggle, so far from
being over, had just begun.
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The wedge between the North and South was
deepened
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COMPROMISE OF 1850

• New land after war with Mexico
• Clay is back
• CA free state
• UT and NM popular sovereignty
• D.C. slave trade abolished
• Congress would not interfere with interstate
  slave trade
• Strict Fugitive Slave Act

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a law which no man can obey without the loss of
self respect -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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KANSAS- NEBRASKA ACT1854
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BLEEDING KANSAS

• Free Soilers anti-slavery settlers who moved
  into the area to vote against slavery
• Pro-slavery forces from Missouri went across the
  border to vote in Kansas
• Both sides resort to violence

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Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should
forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends
of justice, and mingle my blood further with the
blood of my children and with the blood of
millions in this slave country whose rights are
disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust
enactments - I submit - so let it be done!
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A house divided against itself cannot stand. I
believe that this government cannot endure
permanently half slave and half free. I do not
expect the Union to be dissolved I do not
expect the house to fall but I do expect it
will cease to be divided. It will become either
all one thing or another.