Chapter 10Section 1

Mr. Clifford

Mexican War & Wilmot Proviso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EES2qrcJbxg

Examine the chart to the left. 1.) What information does the chart show?2.) Based on the information, what impact

will this have on the United States?3.) How will this impact the slavery

issue in the US?

Differences Between North & South

Industry and Immigration in the North• Increase in factories• Railroads carried raw materials eastward &

manufactured product/settlers westward.• Immigrants:

entered industrial workplace Became voters who opposed slavery (economic

reasons)

Differences Between North & South

Agriculture and Slavery in the South• Rural society (plantations & small farms)• Produced less than 10% of manufactured

goods• Few immigrants settled in south.• Southern whites feared that any restriction

of slavery would lead to a social & economic revolution.

Slavery in the Territories Wilmot Proviso: any territories

acquired as a result of war would be closed to slavery.

Southerners• Feared that if Wilmot Proviso became law,

the North would acquire more power.• House approved it but Senate rejected it.

Statehood of California 1849: California created state

constitution that outlawed slavery. According to Missouri Compromise,

California should become a slave state. President Zachary Taylor:

• supported California’s admission as a free state

• Believed territories should determine their own laws on slavery.

Southerners believed this was an attack on slavery and their way of life.

Senate Debates Issues debated in Senate

California Boarder dispute between Texas (slave state) &

New Mexico Territory (slave issue not settled) Northern’s wanted slavery abolished in D.C. Southerner’s accused northern states of failing

to enforce Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Southerners threaten to secede

Senate Debates (continued)

Clay’s Compromise• To end bitterness in Congress, Henry Clay

attempted to create a compromise that would settle, “all questions in the controversy between the free and slave states, growing out of the subject of Slavery.”

Henry Clay

Calhoun and Webster Respond Calhoun’s Goals

• Believed in state’s rights over federal power

• Fought for the interests of the slaveholding South

• Believed that “the agitation of the subject (slavery) would end in disunion.

• Blamed the crisis on northern abolitionists John C. Calhoun

Calhoun and Webster Respond Webster’s Goals

• Slavery should not be extended into the territories.

• Endorsed Clay’s compromise “for the preservation of the Union…”

Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Questions How did Calhoun and Webster

disagree over states’ rights? How did the compromise try to

satisfy both sides?

The Compromise is Adopted

Clay left the Senate after the compromise was rejected.

Stephen A. Douglass• Reintroduced the resolutions to the

compromise to the Senate (one at a time).• Senators were able to vote for the individual

resolutions they liked/disliked.• Southern leaders supported the proposals as

being the best the South could secure without radical action.

The Compromise is Adopted (cont.)

• Southern leaders supported the proposals as being the best the South could secure without radical action.

• President Zachary Taylor died and Vice President Millard Fillmore became President.

• Fillmore supported the Compromise.• The Compromise of 1850 was finally voted

into law.