Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture? Compromise of 1850 (five main facts) 1. California was entered as a free state. 2. New Mexico and Utah were each allowed to use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery. In other words, the people would pick whether the states would be free or slave.
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Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture? Compromise of 1850 (five main facts)
1. California was entered as a free state. 2. New Mexico and Utah were each allowed
to use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery. In other words, the people would pick whether the states would be free or slave.
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture? Compromise of 1850
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Compromise of 1850 (five main facts)3. The Republic of Texas gave
up lands that it claimed in present day New Mexico and received $10 million to pay its debt to Mexico.
4. The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture? Compromise of 1850 (five main facts)
5. The Fugitive Slave Act made any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine. This was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 and caused many abolitionists to increase their efforts against slavery.
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by congress in 1854Effectively repealed the MO
CompromiseAllowed previously free and
unorganized territories of KS and NE to choose whether or not to permit slavery by popular sovereignty
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Kansas-Nebraska ActSupporters of both sides
raced to KSEventually setting up
rival governmentsTerritory became known as
“bleeding Kansas”Armed clashes between
the two sides
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Kansas-Nebraska ActSumner-Brooks incident
Sumner (MA senator) denounced the Act on the senate floor
Brooks (SC senator) approached Sumner said he was insulted b/c he was from the South and was related to one of the act’s authors
Brooks beat Sumner with a heavy cane almost killing him
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Dred Scott Decision (1587) Dred Scott, a slave in MO went
with his owner into a free territory where he lived for 4 years
His owner later returned to MO, where he died
Scott sued for his freedom
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Dred Scott Decision (1587) SCOTUS ruled that he had no right to sue
because as a slave he was not a citizen Also declared that a slave owner could not be
deprived if is “property” without due process of law
Struck down the Missouri Compromise because it was a violation of the 5th amendment
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Raid on Harper’s Ferry(1859) Group of radical
abolitionist led by John Brown
Attacked the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
Planned to seize weapons and give them to slaves
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
Raid on Harper’s Ferry(1859) Plan failed when US troops
under the command of Robert E Lee surrounded the arsenal and forced them to surrender
Brown was hanged Many saw it as a sign that blood
would have to be shed for the South to protect its way of life
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?
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