Teach and discuss the debate over slavery
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Teach and discuss the debate over slavery
Teach and discuss the debate over slaverywho supports and who opposes slaveryMason WilfertMackena Koss3/15/09Period 6Table of contentStates Rights doctrine
Compromise of 1820
Wilmot Proviso of 1846
Compromise of 1850
Annexation of Texas and California as statesBased on tenth Amendment to the constitutionAgreement proposed by Henry ClayProposal to outlaw slavery in the new territoryAllowed California to enter the Union as a free stateHelp solve the balance of free states and slave states
States Rights doctrineState power greater than federal
Ability to reject federal law
Created by John C. Calhoun
Compromise of 1820videoTo the point
On topic
How it effected slaveryCompromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850California=free state
No slave trade in the capitol
Mexican Cession=popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850What it was
Tried resolving territorial issues
many links toward details
websiteWilmot Proviso of 1846Tried to outlaw slavery
Was not passed
Considered one of the first events
Wilmot Proviso(cont)
Annexation of California and Texas
Annexation of California and TexasTexas became slave state
California became free state
Had to stay equalTexas ideal place for slavery
Last frontier of slavery
Most Californians opposed slavery CitationsHistory text book 3/15/09
Googleimages 3/15/09
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/.../HD_wilmotD.jpg 3/15/09
http://Americanhistorysuite101.com 3/15/09
http://PBS.org/wilmotproviso/.org 3/15/09
www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/caladmit.html 3/15/09
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/yps1.html 3/15/09