Warm Up: Write about a time when you were a child and you got lost or separated from your parents. What were the circumstances and how did it make you feel?

Slavery in American & events leading up to the Civil War

Life as a slave THE COMPROMISES – Causes of the Civil War Missouri Compromise of 1820 Nat Turner’s Rebellion – 1831 Southern Reaction: Life as a slave What was the Underground Railroad? Mexican War Ends – 1848 Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act – 1854 popular-sovereignty: Bleeding Kansas: Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin – 1851 Caning of Charles Sumner Lincoln-Douglas Debate John Brown’s Raid Election of 1860 SECESSION!!! Dred Scott Decision 1857

Life as a slave “Now I couldn't go from here across the street, or I couldn't go through nobody's house without I have a note, or something from my master…. We belonged to people. They'd sell us like they sell horses and cows and hogs and all like that. Have a auction bench, and they'd put you on, up on the bench and bid on you just same as you bidding on cattle you know. Fountain Hughes

Slave Auction

African-American Abolitionist Sojourner Truth Fredrick Douglas (2:20) Back

Who was Wilmont and what was his Proviso, and why do we care? Wilmont Proviso – Bill that sought to outlaw slavery in the land obtained in the Mexican Cession. Where do the San Francisco 49ers get their name? California – Gold discovered in 1849… CA Applies to join U.S. as a FREE state… South angered

What percentage of California lies below the 36 – 30 line?