Expanding Slavery

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Expanding Slavery

• What should we do with our slaves?

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Homework

• COPY YOUR HOMEWORK!!
• Textbook page 254 s 1, 2, 5

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A Nation Divided

• North Opposes Slavery
• Keep slavery where it already existed
• Feared shift in political power
• Nation was equally balanced before westward
  expansion of slave and free states.

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Maintaining the Balance

• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Northwest Ordinance permitted slavery south of
  the Ohio River
• Admission of Missouri would upset balance
• Compromise needed
• Missouri slave state, Maine free state
• States north of 36? 30 latitude line would be
  free
• This worked until California requested
• admission.

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Compromise of 1850

• All land gained from Mexico was south of the
  Missouri Compromise
• North feared that the new territory would give
  the South a majority in the Senate and the
  Electoral College
• Northerners wanted slavery kept out of the
  territories
• South believed that the government
• could not tell people they could not bring
• their property to the territories.

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Compromise of 1850

• Compromise tried to please both sides
• California admitted as a free state
• Popular Sovereignty allow the people to decide
  their slavery status in Utah New Mexico
• Abolished slave trading in Washington DC
• Slavery remained legal in Washington DC
• Fugitive Slave Act required citizens to return
  runaway slaves

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Southern states felt they were losing power
• Under the Missouri Compromise, Nebraska and
  Kansas would be free states
• The Act would allow popular sovereignty to decide
  slavery question
• Outraged northerners caused violence known as
  Bleeding Kansas in 1856

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Legacy of the Slavery Debate

• Bitter Feelings between North and South
• 1,000s dead in protests
• Southerners angry at federal government
• Stage set for the Civil War