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Burns USH (Unit 3.3) Name __________________________Date _______________ Pd ________
Abolitionism and Sectional TensionsFrederick Douglass Angelina and Sarah Grimke
William Lloyd Garrison Hinton Helper
John C. Calhoun
George Fitzhugh
The Abolitionists
Supporters of slavery
1619First African
slaves brought to America
1739Stono slave rebellion
in South Carolina
1776American
Revolution leads many to
free their slaves
1787Northwest Ordinance
outlawed slavery in the NW territories
17873/5th Compromise of the Constitution
1793Eli Whitney’s
cotton gin leads to “King Cotton”
1808U.S. government
outlawed the trans-Atlantic
slave trade
1820All Northern states have
outlawed slavery
1820The Missouri
Compromise restricted slavery in the western
territories at 36˚30’
Conversation #1 Nat Turner Rebellion in 1831In 1831, the slave Nat Turner was led a shocking revolt against
slavery, killing 55 whites, mostly women and children. This was the bloodiest slave rebellion in U.S. history.
Dozens of blacks were killed in retaliation
Conversation #2 Mexican American War 1846-1848in 1846, the USA engaged in a war with Mexico. Americans hoped to gain new lands as part of its “Manifest Destiny.” Texas and most
of the Mexican Cession were below the 36˚30’ line
Conversation #3 Free Soil Party formed in 1848The main goal of the Free Soil Party was to limit the spread of
slavery into the western territories. Free-soilers did not believe that the Constitution allowed for abolition of slavery
Conversation #4 Wilmot Proviso in 1846The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to outlaw slavery in the
Mexican Cession. This would have limited the South’s ability to create new slave states in the West.
Conversation #5 Compromise of 1850 A new compromise was needed when California applied to
become a state. CA entered as a free state, but the South gained a new Fugitive Slave Law that declared that runaway slaves had
to be returned to their masters.
Conversation #6 Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's book had a major influence on how
Northerners viewed slavery. It showed the cruelty of slave masters and opened people’s eyes to the horrors of Southern slavery.
1833William Lloyd
Garrison formed the American Anti-
Slavery Society
1848Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo gave USA the
Mexican Cession; Most land is south of the 36˚30’
line
1850“King Cotton” makes
up 60% of all exports; Slavery is
dominant in the Deep South
1854Kansas-Nebraska
Act passed; Formation
of the Republican Party
1857Supreme
Court’s Dred Scott decision
1856-1858“Bleeding Kansas“ violence between
pro- and anti-slavery forces
1860Lincoln is elected;
South Carolina secedes from the Union
1859John Brown’s raid at
Harper’s Ferry
ABOLITIONISM
Helper and GarrisonDouglass and Calhoun Fitzhugh and Grimke sisters
Calhoun and Fitzhugh Garrison and Douglass Grimke sisters and Helper