Sectionalism 1848-1852 New Party formed > free soil party > does not want to see expansion of slavery through the war David Wilmot (Proviso) 1848 (free soil party) (whigs support) Wilmot Proviso Proposed law that prevents slavery in New States Fails senate Did not want whites to compete with black slavery (economic based) How compete? Don?t pay slavery White people need jobs > slavery would impose on that Free Soiler?s oppose slavery > economic purposes > white people would have to compete with jobs Abraham Lincoln opposed slavery for economic purposes Abolitionism > fight on moral grounds not political (viewed as whack jobs) William Seward (Maine) Honest to god abolitionist Pushing for abolition PERIOD Pennsylvania (Quakers)
Sectionalism During the Mid 1800's
Sectionalism 1848-1852 New Party formed > free soil party > does not want to see expansion of slavery through the war David Wilmot (Proviso) 1848 (free soil party) (whigs support) Wilmot Proviso Proposed law that prevents slavery in New States Fails senate Did not want whites to compete with black slavery (economic based) How compete? Don?t pay slavery White people need jobs > slavery would impose on that Free Soiler?s oppose slavery > economic purposes > white people would have to compete with jobs Abraham Lincoln opposed slavery for economic purposes Abolitionism > fight on moral grounds not political (viewed as whack jobs) William Seward (Maine) Honest to god abolitionist Pushing for abolition PERIOD Pennsylvania (Quakers)
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