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Differences Over Slavery

Mr. Schumaier

How did the spread of slavery become an issue?

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Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state but this would have given slave states more power than free states.

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What was the MISSOURI COMPROMISE?

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A compromise that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

A line was drawn at 36 30N. North would be free & South would be slave.

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What was the WILMOT PROVISO?

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A plan by David Wilmot of Pennsylvania that called for the outlaw of slavery in any land won from Mexico.

House passed bill but Senate defeated it.

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Define SECTIONALSIM.

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He feeling of loyalty to ones state or section instead of the whole country.

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Describe the FREE SOIL PARTY.

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Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men.

Opposed the spread of slavery into the territories.

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What is a FUGITIVE SLAVE?

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Escaped slaves.

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Describe three parts of the COMPROMISE OF 1850.

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1) California admitted as a free state

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= Free

2) Rest of Mexican Cession divided into New Mexico & Utah territories.

Voters would decide slaver issue by voting.

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3) Slave trade banned in D.C. but not between slave states.

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Slave Trade

4) Strict fugitive slave law was passed.

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What was the FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OF 1850?

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All citizens had to help catch runaway slaves. Anyone who helped an escaped slave could be fined $1,000 & jailed for six months.

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Describe the plot of UNCLE TOMs CABIN.

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Kind & aging slave is sold to a cruel planter. The planter badly mistreats his slaves and eventually kills Uncle Tom.

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Describe the KANSAS-NEBRASKS ACT.

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Stephen Douglas proposed dividing the Nebraska Territory into two states, Kansas & Nebraska.

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The question of slavery would be decide by popular vote.

Would undo the Missouri Comp because the Territory was north of 36 30N.

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Democrat President Franklin Pierce helped Douglas push the act through Congress.

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Who was STEPHEN DOUGLAS?

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Democratic Senator from Illinois.

Proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Democratic Nominee for President in 1860 vs Lincoln

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BLEEDING KANSAS

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Both Northern Abolitionist and Southern Slave owners moved to Kansas after Kansas-Nebraska Act.

By 1856 over 200 people had been killed.

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What happened in Kansas in 1854-1856?

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Who was DRED SCOTT?

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A slave who lived in Missouri, later moved to Illinois and Wisconsin where slavery was illegal. When owner died, filed suit claiming he should be free.

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What did the DRED SCOTT DECISION say?

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Slaves were property and slavery was legal except where a state voted to ban it

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The End