Growing Tensions Over Slavery

Ch. 14 Section 1p. 482-485

Growing Tensions Over Slavery

What we will learn:1.Why new lands created old conflicts

2. How new political parties affected the north/south conflict

VocabularyPopular Sovereignty – People in states voting directly on issues, rather than their elected officials doing so

Secede - To withdraw

Vocabulary (Con’t)Vital – Of high importance

Crisis - A critical problem

I – Slavery & the Mexican-American WarA- Victory & new lands recharge slavery

issue1. Missouri Compromise has created

an uneasy peace2. The Wilmot Proviso

a. No new slaves innew Mex/Amerlands1. Fails in Senate2. Viewed as attack

on slavery

How is the Mexican American War Territory similar to Missouri?

How is it different?

B- New Political Parties1. Antislavery Party

a. Democrats & Whigs took no firm stance on slavery

b. 1848- Democratic senator Lewis Cass (MI) –

Popular Sovereignty1. direct vote

2. Free Soil Party a. combine anti-slavery

Whigs & Dems1. all Mex/Amer

territory= freeC. California

1. Issues with CA statehooda. gold rush(1849) = pop b. free vs. slave debatec. south threatens secessiond. fugitive slave issuese. John C. Calhoun

1. abolition or secession

Henry Clay

• The Great Compromiser– How will Clay compromise

this one?

– You will have to find out tomorrow

Compromises FailCh. 14 Section 2

p. 486-491

Compromises Fail2 Day Class objectives:

1. Summarize the Compromise of 1850

2. Describe the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

3. Assess the decision made by abolitionists to assist runaways following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

4. Evaluate the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

II – The Compromise of 1850To Please the North:-CA= Free State

-Ban slaves in D.C.

To Please the South:

-Popular Sovereignty

-Fugitive slave law

A- Northern Outrage1. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

a. Allows designated gov’t officials to arrest runaway

slave suspects.b. Northerners req’d to help return runawaysc. convictions based on the testimony of alleged ownerd. northerners resist

Questions for deep thought:

• What was the result of the Fugitive Slave Act in the North?

• How about the South?

• Did it help or hurt the southern cause?

B- Uncle Tom’s Cabin1. Harriet Beecher Stowe- Litchfield

CT

a. daughter of abolitionist minister

2. About Uncle Tom, a slave who is abused by owner Simon Legree

3. Heavy impact in the North a. Outraged previously uninterested northerners

4. Heavy Impact in the Southa. called propaganda*

(*false, or misleading information used to further a cause)

1. claimed novel did not present accurate picture of the lives

of slaves

Uncle Tom’s Cabin• “Tom opened his eyes, and

looked upon his master… ‘There an’t no more ye can do! I forgive ye with all of my soul!’ and he fainted entirely away.‘I b’lieve, my soul, he’s done for, finally’ said Legree, stepping forward, to look at him. ‘Yes, he is! Well, his mouth’s shut up, at last, -that’s one comfort!’”

- Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ch. 38

Slavery and the Pen

It’s Your Decision:

You are a white business man in Philadelphia who has just read Uncle Tom’s Cabin. One night you hear a knock at your door. It is a black man and his family. It doesn’t take you long to figure out that they are runaway slaves fleeing bondage via the Underground Railroad. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 requires you to turn them In or face harsh penalties yourself. You want to help, but how will your family put food on the table if you are arrested? Still, you have a decision to make.

What will you do?

Min. 2 paragraphs typed, double-spaced. Due Monday 10/22

III – Kansas-Nebraska ActA- Kansas & Nebraska Territories

1. North of Mo. Compromise slave border

2. Stephen Douglasa. develop new lands

for R.R.b. Slave debate solvedby pop. sovereignty.

1. north unhappy

Questions for deep thoughts

1. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect the Missouri Compromise?

2. Was popular sovereignty a fair solution for new territories?

B- Bleeding Kansas1. Pro, and anti-slave settlers

migrated to Kansasa. elect pro-slavery legislationb. anti-slavery settlers

refuse results1. hold 2nd election

c. 2 gov’ts fight for control1. violence erupts

2. Bloodshed in the Senatea. MA Senator Charles

Sumner attacked on senate floor following harsh anti- slavery speech

1. seen as further evidence of slavery'sbrutality

Exit Ticket:

• Evaluate the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• 1 paragraph

The Crisis DeepensCh. 14 Section 3

p. 494-498

The Crisis DeepensClass objectives:

1. Explain why the Republican Party Developed

2. Summarize issues involved in the Dred Scott case

3. Compare Lincoln & Douglas’s views on slavery

4. Contrast reactions to John Brown’s raid

John Brown Event SequenceReturn to New England

following Pottawatomie Massacre

John Brown Event SequenceReturn to New England

following Pottawatomie Massacre

Plotted to raise army in order to free slaves

John Brown Event SequenceReturn to New England

following Pottawatomie Massacre

Plotted to raise army in order to free slaves

1859 Attack on Harpers Ferry, VA.

Seized guns from Army barracks

John Brown Event SequenceReturn to New England

following Pottawatomie Massacre

Plotted to raise army in order to free slaves

1859 Attack on Harpers Ferry, VA.

Seized guns from Army barracks

Col. Robert E. Lee wounds and

captures Brown

John Brown Event SequenceReturn to New England

following Pottawatomie Massacre

Plotted to raise army in order to free slaves

1859 Attack on Harpers Ferry, VA.

Seized guns from Army barracks

Col. Robert E. Lee wounds and

captures Brown

Guilty of Murder/Treason- Executed – 12/2/1859

John Brown’s Body• John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave;

(3X) His soul's marching on! (• Chorus) Glory, halle—hallelujah! Glory, halle—

hallelujah! Glory, halle—hallelujah! his soul's marching on!

• He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! (3X) His soul's marching on! (

• Chorus) John Brown's knapsack is strapped upon his back! (3X) His soul's marching on! (

• Chorus) His pet lambs will meet him on the way; (3X) They go marching on! (3X) As they march along!

Battle Hymn of the Republic• Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the

Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.

• (Chorus) Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

• I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps, They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. (Chorus) Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His day is marching on.

• I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on."