Agenda 9/25/2018

• Warm-Up

• Notes on Slavery Divides a Nation

• Finish work from yesterday

• Objective: I will understand how Slavery

divided the United States

Warm-Up

• What are some issues that Manifest Destiny

may cause? (think adding more states)

CHAPTER 7Essential Question:

What were the causes and outcomes of the Civil

War and what impact did Reconstruction have

on the nation?

Objectives

1. Identify differences between the North and the South.

2. Describe the Underground Railroad and other forms of

protest against slavery.

3. Explain the political conditions that gave rise to the

Republican Party and divided the Whigs

4. Describe the conflicts that led to secession.

7.1-7.2: The Divisive Politics of Slavery

Differences Between North & South

1. The 2 regions were noticeably different in

their religion and culture.

2. The South, with agricultural economy

relied on slave labor.

3. The North, with diversified industries,

relied less on slavery.

4. Controversy over new states being free

or slave.

Illinois (1818) Alabama (1819)

Indiana (1816) Mississippi (1817)

Ohio (1803) Louisiana (1812)

Vermont (1791) Tennessee (1796)

Rhode Island Kentucky (1792)

New York Virginia

New Hampshire North Carolina

Massachusetts South Carolina

Connecticut Maryland

New Jersey Georgia

Pennsylvania Delaware

Maine (1820)

Iowa (1846)

California (1850)

Michigan (1837)

Wisconsin (1848)

Free

States

Slave

States

Original

13

States

Missouri (1821)

Arkansas (1836)

Florida (1845)

Texas (1845)

Compromise of 1850

Compromise of 1850

1. California became a free state.

2. The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided

into two parts; Utah (UT) and New Mexico

(NM).

3. people in UT and NM used popular

sovereignty to decide on the slavery issue.

4. The slave trade ended in Washington, D.C.

5. The Fugitive Slave Law was passed

• You could be fined and/or

imprisoned for helping a

runaway slave.

Cazenovia, MA, Fugitive

Slave Law Convention held

on 21 and 22 August 1850;

Frederick Douglass is seated

at the right side of the table.

The Fugitive Slave Law

• All Americans, by law, were

required to help catch

runaway slaves.

• This law infuriated

northerners!

Protest, Resistance & Violence

1. Underground Railroad- a secret network of

people who would hid fugitive slaves.

2. Harriet Tubman- “conductor” on the U.R. made

19 trips to the South to free some 300 slaves.

3. Harriet Beecher Stowe- wrote Uncle Tom’s

Cabin.

4. Brought the horrors of slavery into the homes

of many Americans.

5. Increased protests against the Fugitive Slave

Act.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1. The Nebraska Territory was divided into two

parts: Nebraska (NE) and Kansas (KS).

2. The people of each territory voted on whether or

not to allow slavery. (popular sovereignty)

*The Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri

Compromise. Both territories were north of 36,30’N and

should NOT have been allowed to have slaves!

Agenda 9/26/2018

• Class Announcements

• Warm-Up

• Finish guided notes

• Civil War timeline notebook activity

• Objective: I will understand how slavery

divided the United States

• Both sides claimed

victory on the vote!

“Bleeding Kansas”

Before the vote on slavery:

• Northerners crossed the

border to keep KS a free

state.

• Southerners crossed the

border to make KS a slave

state.

Sponge• Explain the importance of:

– 1. Popular Sovereignty

– 2. Compromise of 1850

– 3. Fugitive Slave Act

– 4. Bleeding Kansas

– 5. Stephen Douglas

7.2 Conflict Leads to Secession

Dred Scott Facts

1. Scott was a slave from

Missouri.

2. His owner moved to free

territory (WI)

3. His owner died.

4. Scott sued for his freedom. He

claimed that he should be a

free man since he lived in a

free territory (WI) for four

years.

A: NO

SUPREME COURT

DECISIONS:

Q:Was Scott a U.S.

citizen with the right to

sue?

A: NO

Q: Did living in a free

territory make Scott a

free man?

A: NO

Q: Did Congress have

the right to outlaw

slavery in any territory?

• The Missouri Compromise was found to be unconstitutional

and inflamed opposition to slavery.

RESULTS:

• Dred Scott was not given his freedom.

Open to

slavery

through

popular

sovereignty

(Compromise

of 1850)

Open to

slavery

through

popular

sovereignty

(KS-NE

Act)

Missouri Compromise line is declared

unconstitutional (Dred Scott Decision)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• In 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged incumbent

Stephen Douglas for his seat in the Senate.

(Incumbent – the holder of an office or position)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Douglas believed that

each territory should

be able to decide on

its own whether or not

to allow slavery by

using popular

sovereignty.

Lincoln believed that

slavery was evil and

should be kept out of

the territories.

• Lincoln became well known throughout the nation.

Lincoln – Douglas Debates

Results:

• Douglas won the election by a slim margin.

Harpers Ferry

1. In 1859, John Brown

and his followers

seized a federal

arsenal in Harpers

Ferry, Virginia.

2. Brown was caught

and sentenced to

death by hanging.

3. Was viewed as a

martyr for the

abolitionist

movement.

Election of 1860 – Lincoln won

Secession

1. In response to Lincoln’s victory, the southern

states seceded from the Union in 1861,

forming the Confederate States of America.

2. Jefferson Davis was

named the president of

the Confederacy.

Civil War: Union v. Confederacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNmeOOJCDY&index=

18&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s