jan 1, 1850 - Tipping Point: Slavery Tensions

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• Inevitability of conflict
– Driven by slavery
– South money in slaves
– North has majority of infrastructure, but South paid taxes for it, too
• Death of the Great Triumvirate
– John C. Calhoun (1850)
– Henry Clay (1852)
– Daniel Webster (1852)
– Compromise no longer possible – radicalization of conflict
• Rise of the radicals
– Charles Sumner
– Benjamin Wade
– Slavery as top priority

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