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The Politics of Slavery

• Objective Students will discuss the politics of
  slavery that lead the North and South into a
  Civil War in the mid-1800s

WARM UP Define the following three words in
NOTES - Fugitive Slave Act - Uncle Toms
Cabin - Compromise of 1850 Definitions WHAT
it is and WHY its important
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Notes

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- PROPERTY RIGHTS vs. HUMAN RIGHTS
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The question of slavery was a question of balance

• Free states and slave states had to be equal in
  numbers for one to not overpower the other
• When new states/land was added to the nation, the
  free states and the slave states wanted to gain
  that territory for their side
• Compromise of 1850
• Bleeding Kansas
• Mexican-American War

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Free States States that had banned Slavery by
1850 15 States
BALANCE OF POWER Between Free and Slave States
California and other new territory that wanted to
be added UPSET THE BALANCE OF POWER
Slave States States that allowed the institution
of slavery 15 States
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The Compromise of 1850Directions Take 10
minutes and fill out the following chart using
your knowledge and the information on page 324
Terms of the Compromise Explanation Would Slave or Free States like this?
Admission of California
Texas and New Mexico Act
Utah Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Act Abolishing Slave Trade in D.C.
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Uncle Toms Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowes novel about slavery
• Portrayed slavery as cruel and inhumane
• Well-read throughout nation/world ? which brought
  the attention to what was going on in the South
• South felt betrayed

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular sovereignty would decide the fate of
  slavery in the territories north of the 36.30N
  latitude line. (Territories of Kansas and
  Nebraska)
• People RUSHED to Kansas/Nebraska to vote for
  slave/free soil. (Elections were less rigid back
  then)
• This invoked violence between people ? Bleeding
  Kansas

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Dred Scott Decision A Southern Victory

• Dred Scott was a slave who had lived on free soil
  for much of the 1830s with his slave owner. He
  sued for is freedom.
• US Supreme Court said he had no rights which te
  white man was bound to respect
• Effects of decision
• Increased norther opposition (hatred) to slavery
• Deprived free African Americans of citizenship
• Increased tensions between NORTH and SOUTH

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Election of 1860

• Abraham Lincoln won the Presidency ? he wanted
  the GRADUAL end to slavery
• The South didnt want to be under a president who
  wanted to end slavery
• THE SOUTH SECESSEDs (left the Union)

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The Confederate States of America

• President Jefferson Davis
• Reluctant job for Davis
• The first office of the Confederate States of
  America didnt have as much stuff at this
  classroom
• - The officials met in a hotel room
• -They had to make their OWN government

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Attack of Fort Sumter
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Group Work

• The Struggle for Kansas (330)
• The Sack of Lawrence and The Pottawatomie
  Massacre (331 and 332)
• Bleeding Kansas and The Crime Against Kansas
• The Dred Scott Decision
• The Lecompton Constitution
• John Browns Raid

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The Nation Splits Apart Teach each other

• Read your section
• Write down 3 of the most important points and
  define any vocab words
• Then you will work with other students and TEACH
  them about your section
• ASK MS. POWER IF YOU NEED HELP!!