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American History Lecture Five (view source)
Revision as of 19:19, October 3, 2008
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But the opposition didn't cease, and Lovejoy's printing press was thrown into the river three times! The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society gave him a new printing press, and local slave owners decided to destroy it. A mob came over from St. Louis and Lovejoy was killed trying to protect his press. This violence shocked the North.
But the opposition didn't cease, and Lovejoy's printing press was thrown into the river three times! The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society gave him a new printing press, and local slave owners decided to destroy it. A mob came over from St. Louis and Lovejoy was killed trying to protect his press. This violence shocked the North.
==Franklin Pierce==
After the negotiations in the Compromise of 1850, divisive conflict seemed to lull. Although Pierce tried hard to prevent further conflict from breaking out, his policies turned out to be quite divisive.
Historians remember the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]] as the single largest step toward the Civil War. The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the question of slavery in the West.
By the end of his administration, Pierce could claim "a peaceful condition of things in Kansas." But, to his disappointment, the Democrats refused to renominate him, turning to the less controversial Buchanan. Pierce returned to New Hampshire, leaving his successor to face the rising fury of the sectional whirlwind. He died in 1869.
==Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln==
==Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln==