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Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by congress in 1854Effectively repealed the MO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?

Create a wordle depicting the causes of the Civil War Open a word document

Type in your own words the causes of the civil war from class notes and your reading of chapter 10

For example

Decide which causes you feel played the largest part in the war and copy and past these several times in the document

For example

To keep words in a phrase together: type ~ in between the words Located in upper left corner of keyboard

Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?

Select then copy everything you have written on your word document

Go to Wordle , paste what you have copied into the space provided and click go

Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?

Here’s what your result will look like

With ~ between words in a phrase

You can change it by clicking on randomize

Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?

Once you have the wordle the way you want it

Go to the start button in the lower left corner

Open the snipping tool

Go back to your wordle and snip a copy of the screen

Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the differences between the northern and southern economy, social structure, and culture?

Open power point and paste your wordle on a blank screen

Then find pictures that go with your wordle and “decorate” the slide

Play with the picture format button until you are satisfied with you slide

Lastly – print your slide