November 27th

Today in class we got back a bunch of papers and went over them if people had any questions. Then we listened to a song about James k. Polk, finally we learned about Nebraska becoming a Territory.

Notes
-By 1853 settlers had pushed up the Missouri River to the Platte.

-Entreprenuers including Stephen Douglas were talking about a transcontinental Rail Road to San Fransisco.

-But, the country west of the Mississippi River would have to be "organized" as a territory in order for it to be surveyed and settled.

-1853 House of Reps. create the Nebraska Territory, Bill ran into problems in the senate, the problem was that the Missouri Comprimise declared that slavery be excluded from this area (Kansas/Nebraska).

-Senator Atchinson had Political Power and called the shots on southern voted for any bill on Nebraska.
-Stephen Douglas had sponsored the bill he preffered popular sovernty for slavery issues.
-Douglas hoped to see the Rail Road linking west coast with Chicago (he was from Chicago).

-Atchinson drove hard bargin and Douglas compromised on bill that

-organized Kansas and Nebraska Territories
-repealed the Missouri Compromise
-leave slavery question to Popular Soviernty

-Bill created a "storm"
-many considered expansion of slavery a national question.

-Senator Abraham Lincoln spoke against the spread of Slavery while arguing that slavery could continue where it already is.

-Bill was passed
-passage completed the destruction of the whig party
-Southern Whigs joined the democratic party.