Chapter 17 Road To Civil War

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Chapter 17Road To Civil War

• By
• Laura Rogers,
• Susan Holland

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Section 1Setting Differences

• On March 7, 1850 Daniel Webster gave a speech.
• Many of his listeners shared his anxiety about
  the countrys future.
• While the addition of New Territories gave the
  country room to grow, it also raised questions
  that brought deep divisions.
• The issue of slavery in the West would set the
  North against the South.

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Section 1 Cont.

• The issue of slavery in the new states was not
  new.
• Growing anti-slavery feelings began to grow in
  the North
• Wilmot Proviso would outlaw slavery in all
  territory acquired from Mexico.
• Got abolished. North and South were equally
  matched.

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Chapter 1 Cont.

• There was no way of reconciling in the opposing
  views on slavery.
• The election of 1848 both Northerners and
  Southerners tried to play down any discussion of
  slavery.
• Zachary Taylor was a moderate politician with
  more than a hundred slaves.
• Whigs backed Taylor some refused to back a slave
  holder

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Section 1 cont.

• California gold rush was in 1848.
• Gold Rush intensified questions about slavery.
• Taylor believed State Hood could become a
  solution to the issue of slavery.
• Southern leaders threatened to leave the Union if
  it admitted California as a free state.

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Chapter 1Cont.

• The Compromise of 1850 was to resolve a crisis.
• Clay presented a bill in congress.
• Eventually the proposal would become the
  Compromise of 1850.
• In September 1850, Congress passed Clays bills.

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Section 2Moving Closer to the Conflict

• A fugitive slave act had been in effect since
  1793.
• This act was part of the Compromise of 1850.
• Harriete Tubman was best known for the
  underground railroad.
• Sojourner Truth strived for truth. Born as a
  slave she spoke out against slavery.