10:1 Divisive Politics of Slavery Bell Ringer pg. 312 EQ What issues led to the growing division between the north and the south?

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101 Divisive Politics of SlaveryBell Ringer
pg. 312EQ What issues led to the growing
division between the north and the south?
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How to divide and admit the Mexican Cession?

• Extend Missouri Compromise Line??
• All free? All slave??
• Popular Sovereignty??

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Wilmot Proviso

• Proposed Bill-No slavery in the territories
  acquired from Mexico
• Supported by North
• Opposed by South-threaten secession
• Bill Dies- N S continue to fight

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Great Compromise of 1850Henry Clay
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1. California admitted as free state

• Balances out TX

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2. TX gives up claims of NM territory for
10million
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3. Slave Trade (not ownership) abolished in
Washington DC
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4. Tougher Fugitive Slave Laws

• Fugitive Slave Law
• No jury trial
• Description
• 10 or 5 to judges
• 1000 penalty/imprisonment

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5. Popular Sovereignty for NM and UT Territories
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102 Protest, Resistance, Violence
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Fugitive Slave Act

• North Reacts with Personal Liberty Laws

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Underground Railroad

• Terminology
• North Star
• destination
• Harriet Tubman

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1st African Baptist Church
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Uncle Toms Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Lincolns quote
• Northern reaction
• Southern reaction

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Kansas Nebraska Act

• Repeals the Missouri Compromise Line
• Established popular sovereignty in all new
  territories

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Popular Sovereignty Fails!
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Bleeding Kansas

• Both pro and anti slavery supporters flock to KS
• Proslavery wins election and establishes
  government
• Antislavery establishes own government-claims to
  be the true government
• Both governments have armies fighting each other

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Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

• John Brown-radical abolitionist
• Triggered other violent incidents throughout
  Kansas-200 killed