Compromises, Dred Scott, Elections, Succession, Confederacy.

Compromises, Dred Scott, Elections, Succession, Confederacy

Henry Clay

• Known as the Great Compromiser

• Wrote the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

• Wanted America to solve their differences without _ _ _

New Compromises

– Free state: didn’t want slavery.

– Slave state: wanted slavery

– Everything was EVEN until Missouri became a state.

The Missouri Question - Northerners were against adding Missouri to the union as a slave state because it would disrupt the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states.

Illinois (1818) Alabama (1819)

Indiana (1816) Mississippi (1817)

Ohio (1803) Louisiana (1812)

Vermont (1791) Tennessee (1796)

Rhode Island Kentucky (1792)

New York Virginia

New Hampshire North Carolina

Massachusetts South Carolina

Connecticut Maryland

New Jersey Georgia

Pennsylvania Delaware

Balance of Free and Slave States

(1819)

Free States Slave States

Missouri Compromise

• Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state, and Maine was admitted as a free state.

Illinois (1818) Alabama (1819)

Indiana (1816) Mississippi (1817)

Ohio (1803) Louisiana (1812)

Vermont (1791) Tennessee (1796)

Rhode Island Kentucky (1792)

New York Virginia

New Hampshire North Carolina

Massachusetts South Carolina

Connecticut Maryland

New Jersey Georgia

Pennsylvania Delaware

Balance of Free and Slave States (1821)

Free States Slave States

Maine (1820) Missouri (1821)

• An imaginary line was drawn across the southern border of Missouri at the latitude 36 30'N…..Except Missouri…

36 , 30’

Illinois (1818) Alabama (1819)

Indiana (1816) Mississippi (1817)

Ohio (1803) Louisiana (1812)

Vermont (1791) Tennessee (1796)

Rhode Island Kentucky (1792)

New York Virginia

New Hampshire North Carolina

Massachusetts South Carolina

Connecticut Maryland

New Jersey Georgia

Pennsylvania Delaware

Maine (1820)

Iowa (1846)Michigan (1837)

Wisconsin (1848)

Free States

Slave States

Missouri (1821)Arkansas (1836)Florida (1845)Texas (1845)

Results of the Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Kept the peace for nearly 30 years

• Six new states joined the Union – 3 slave and 3 free….still equal in number

• AND THEN along came…California

Teach your neighbor what the Missouri Compromise did.

Henry Clay-The Stress of Slavery Is Having an Effect on Him

The Compromise of 1850

• Henry Clay to the rescue AGAIN

• California = Free

• New Mexico and Utah territories= people would decide by voting

“I’m Here to Save the Day!!”

Illinois (1818) Alabama (1819)

Indiana (1816) Mississippi (1817)

Ohio (1803) Louisiana (1812)

Vermont (1791) Tennessee (1796)

Rhode Island Kentucky (1792)

New York Virginia

New Hampshire North Carolina

Massachusetts South Carolina

Connecticut Maryland

New Jersey Georgia

Pennsylvania Delaware

Maine (1820)

Iowa (1846)

California (1850)

Michigan (1837)

Wisconsin (1848)

Free States

Slave States

Missouri (1821)Arkansas (1836)Florida (1845)Texas (1845)

NM and UT Territories-???

•CA=Free•UT/NM Territories-?Vote?•Fugitive Slave Law

• You could be fined and/or imprisoned for helping a runaway slave.

The Fugitive Slave Law

• All Americans, by law, were required to help catch runaway slaves.

•How did this law make abolitionist feel?

Fredrick Douglass

• A former slave• He gave many speeches

and wrote about the horrors of____________.

• He was the spokesman for the antislavery movement.

• North Star • Narrative Life of Fredrick

Douglass

Teach your neighbor about what the Compromise of 1850 did.

The people of each territory voted on whether or not to allow slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Both sides claimed victory on the vote!

“Bleeding Kansas”

Before the vote on slavery:

• Northerners crossed the border to keep KS a free state.

• Southerners crossed the border to make KS a slave state.

* In 1856, an abolitionist named John Brown murdered five proslavery men.

* Over 200 people died in the fighting that followed.

Teach your neighbor what the Kansas Nebraska Act did.

Dred Scott Decision :The Worst Decision the Supreme Court Ever Made• Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri. (MO)

Dred Scott

• Scott and his owner moved to Illinois for four years.

Dred Scott

Dred Scott Decision :The Worst Decision the Supreme Court Ever Made

• Scott’s owner died.

Dred Scott

Dred Scott Decision :The Worst Decision the Supreme Court Ever Made

Dred Scott Decision - :

*____________ sued for his freedom. He claimed that he should be a free man since he lived in a free territory of IL for four years.

Dred Scott

A: NO

SUPREME COURT DECISIONS:

Q: Was Scott a U.S. citizen with the right to sue?A: NO

Q: Did living in a free territory make Scott a free man?A: NO

Q: Did Congress have the right to outlaw slavery in any territory?

Justice Roger B. Taney• He was the US

Supreme Court Justice that ruled in the _______________

that slaves were not citizens and had NO rights.

“You’re a mean one,

Justice Taney”

Roger B. Taney

“You guys are not people..you are property. You are unfit to even hang around with white people. Slaves have absolutely no rights…End of Story!!!."

A Huge Setback for Abolitionist

Teach your neighbor who was Justice Roger B. Taney was.

Lincoln – Douglas Debates

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas for his seat in the Senate.

I don’t want slavery to

spread.I think the territories

themselves should decide

Lincoln lost the election, but it made him a well known figure.

Two years later, he decided to run for

_______________

• Many in the South were afraid if Lincoln were elected, slavery would be outlawed.

• Some even said they would LEAVE the Union if Lincoln was elected.

Ugh… Lincoln....as

president??Heck, NO!!

.

Abraham Lincoln

• He was the 16th President of the United States.

“A House Divided Against

Itself Cannot Stand.”

• Fed up with the North, South Carolina seceded from the Union on Dec. 20, 1860.

• Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas succeeded.

• 7 states succeeded before Lincoln was inaugurated.

Later, Dude!!

The _________________ States of America

Step 1-Form a new government

Step 2-Elect MeStep 3-Write a Constitution

Step 4-Create a Currency

Jefferson Davis

• The first and ________

president of the Confederate States of America.

Teach your neighbor who Jefferson Davis was.

Duh..Everyone Knows Who I

Am!!!

1. Which of these people worked to end slavery before and during

the Civil War?

• A. Andrew Jackson

• B. Fredrick Douglass

• C. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

• D. Chief Roger B. Taney

2.

• Who is described in the box above:

• A. Dred Scot

• B. Abraham Lincoln

• C. Roger Taney

• D. Fredrick Douglass

I ruled in the Dred Scot Case.I said slaves were property and had no rights.

3. How many more people lived in the north than the south?

4. What problem could this cause for the South during the

Civil War?