Created by Bob Brousek 2005 THE COMPROMISES OVER SLAVERY.
24
Created by Bob Brousek 2005 THE COMPROMISES OVER SLAVERY
-
Upload
tyler-beard -
Category
Documents
-
view
223 -
download
0
Transcript of Created by Bob Brousek 2005 THE COMPROMISES OVER SLAVERY.
Created by Bob Brousek 2005
THE COMPROMISES OVER SLAVERY
History Theme:Compromise has helped shape history.
Regional differences on issues will begin to divide the country.
SECTIONALISM
ISSUE NORTH WEST SOUTH
Tariffs
Labor
Western Land
Currency
Improvements
DanielWebster(Mass)
Henry Clay(KY)
JohnCalhoun(S.C.)
Loyaltyto a
region
Click on the photographs for additional information.
SECTIONALISM
ISSUE NORTH WEST SOUTH
Tariffs HIGH HIGH LOW
Labor
Western Land
Currency
Improvements
Taxes onImported
goods
SECTIONALISM
ISSUE NORTH WEST SOUTH
Tariffs HIGH HIGH LOW
Labor FREE FREE SLAVE
Western Land
Currency
Improvements
SECTIONALISM
ISSUE NORTH WEST SOUTH
Tariffs HIGH HIGH LOW
Labor FREE FREE SLAVE
Western Land
EXPENSIVE CHEAP CHEAP
Currency
Improvements
SECTIONALISM
ISSUE NORTH WEST SOUTH
Tariffs HIGH HIGH LOW
Labor FREE FREE SLAVE
Western Land
EXPENSIVE CHEAP CHEAP
Currency RELIABLE CHEAP $ CHEAP $
Improvements
Money basedOn gold
Use PaperMoney
SECTIONALISM
ISSUE NORTH WEST SOUTH
Tariffs HIGH HIGH LOW
Labor FREE FREE SLAVE
Western Land
EXPENSIVE CHEAP CHEAP
Currency RELIABLE CHEAP $ CHEAP $
Improvements YES YES NO
Such asthe building of
roads andcanals
It marked the beginning of the
prolonged sectional conflict over
the extension of slavery that led
to the American Civil War.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
View the Missouri Compromise Document
In 1819, Missouri wanted to enter the Union. However, there were already 11 free states and 11 slave states.
Why did Missouri create a problem?
Solution:
Senator Henry Clay suggested drawing a line at the 36º-30' N. latitude.
Slavery would be banned everywhere north of this line.
Missouri would join as a slave state, Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise
36 - 30’ Line
Balance slave and free states in the future.
South has eyes on Texas.
Click here to access a map of the Congressional vote
The Mexican War
1846-1848
Click here to access a timeline of the Mexican War
Causes of the War with Mexico
Annexation of Texas Rio Grande or Nueces??? America wanted Mexican Territory– $30 million offered for New Mexico &
California– 1846-minor clash took place in disputed
land between the rivers
U.S. ClaimsRio Grande as
the border.
Mexico claimsNueces Riveras the border.
BORDER DISPUTE
Spot Resolution
Lincoln told President Polk he would vote for the war only if he was shown the SPOT where the US was invaded
Some Northerners believed it was a southern “trick” to expand slavery
Click here to view Lincoln’s Spot Resolution
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
America gains a relatively quick and easy military victory---takes longer to march South than to win the war
Rio Grande established as Southern border of Texas
Mexican Cession for $15 million– Parts of present day California, Nevada, Utah,
Arizona, New Mexico
Problem:
After the war withMexico (1848) what would the U.S. do with lands west of the Rocky
Mountains?
The Missouri Compromise only applied to lands east of the Rockies.
CaliforniaGold Rush of 1849
COMPROMISE OF 1850CALIFORNIA WANTS TO JOIN UNION AS A FREE STATE
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY- LET PEOPLE VOTE
TERRITORIES
ABOLISH SELLING OF SLAVES IN D.C.
STRICTER FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
Ad for a Runaway Slave
See An Example of Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law
These territorieswere open to
slavery.
Enters asa
Free State.
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850
Click here to view the
Kansas-Nebraska Act Legislation
Click hereto download
the Kansas-NebraskaAct movie clip.
Be patientas it is a 5.5 MB file
to download.
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
VIDEO QUESTIONS:
1. Why did Sen. Douglas propose the act?
2. How did this law affect the Missouri Compromise? Why?
3. How do some Northerners (especially in Wisconsin) react to this law?
Clay, Webster, & Calhoun will die shortly after the 1850 Compromise and with their deaths any hopes of future compromises.Hostilities will erupt in Kansas making evident that slavery has become an emotional moral issue by the 1850’s.
