Do Now How might the Mexican-American War upset the balance of power at home?

Essential Questions Why did the South struggle so hard to keep slavery? How did the Mexican-American War complicate the issue of slavery? Could there be a real compromise that would do more than delay civil war?

Exit Ticket How would resolve the issue of slavery at the time and keep the Union together?

Focus Question: Did the Mexican-American War move us toward Manifest Destiny or civil war?

Focus Question: Do states have the right to secede from the Union?

14-1 Growing Tensions Over Slavery

Question 1 Slavery would be banned in all territory gained from the Mexican-American War under which congressional act? (pg 482) Wilmot Proviso

Question 2 The political party that wanted to ban slavery in the territory gained from the Mexican-American War was the… (pg 483) Free Soil

Question 3 The balance of power in the Senate in 1850 would be upset if which state was allowed to enter the union as a free state? (pg 484) California

Question 4 If slavery remained an unresolved issue in the 1800’s, then… (pg 485) the country would split apart

Question 5 Under the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was banned in which city? (pg 486) Washington D.C.

Question 6 Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, suspected runaway slaves had no right to… (pg 487) a trial

Question 7 As a result of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, many northern African Americans fled to… (pg 487) Canada

14-3 The Crisis Deepens

Question 8 Stopping the spread of slavery into the western territories was the goal of…(pg 494) The Republican Party

Question 9 The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom because African-Americans…(pg 495) were not citizens

Question 10 The Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, decided that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery, which made the _____ unconstitutional. (pg 495) Missouri Compromise

Question 11 Lincoln said that he did not believe that black people and white people should be equal, but he did believe that black people should… (pg497) have the rights granted by the Declaration of Independence

14-4 The Coming of the Civil War

Question 12 In his attack on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown hoped to… (pg 497) start a slave revolt

Question 13 The new country formed by seceding southern states was called the… (pg501) Confederate States of America

Question 14 The only man ever elected President of the nation created by seceding southern states was… (pg 501) Jefferson Davis

Question 15 TBQ