1 gen 1849 anni - California Slavery Debate

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California ratifies a state constitution to prohibit slavery in 1849->Taylor wants Congress to admit Cali as a free state-> congressional debate (Calhoun and supporters in the Deep south proposed a dual presidency to divide N and S and said the Constitution gave them no power to regulate the states' slavery despite the fact that they had prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory in 1787 and in Missouri Compromise of 1820) (other southerners along with influential northern democrats like James Buchanan wanted to extend the Missouri Compromise line to Pacific which would guarantee slave owners access to some western territory, including a separate state in southern California) (others agreed with Lewis Cass's proposal of squatter sovereignty where newcomers could decide slavery status, champions by Stephen Douglas of Illinois who renamed it popular sovereignty)(free soilers+abolitionists disagreed with admitting cali or any other slave territories)-> Compromise of 1850

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