Rstone4
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I presume this shifts the political balance in the US against the slave o crat power
Yes, because by the compromise of 1820 The idea was one slave state for one free state. So with all that open Canadian land for "Free states" the southerners would be eyeing Texas and mexico and saying "Those guys are really disordered right now..." Might push the mexican-American war really early. and If done in the 1820s before mexico has really stabilized a larger chunk of land might be annexed. California, pre-gold rush, will be far more open to slavery since the major anti slavery move in California was the fear of huge armies of slaves (or Chinese) stripping out the gold. In the 1820s California was only a farming land in some places.
The expanded slave power and the non requirement for a compromise of 1850 would delay the civil war a bit longer. But the growth of slavery might accelerate the development of the abolition movement. If there were a balance of northern and southern states, how would Stephan Douglass's plan for a rail road change things since his plan for a rail road lead to the Kansas Nebraska act which lead to bleeding kansas, John brown, which lead to Harper's ferry.
Also, how would this effect the election of 1824 and 1828 and the birth of the Democrat party? If the northern canadian "states" are pro Republican would Jackson feel cheated enough in 1824 to create his own party for 1828?
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