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CHALLENGES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC: SLAVERY ISSUE Mr. Lee -Unit 2 – Day 8
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Brainstorm In your notes Create a T-chart with differences between the North and the South Using Cards, we will share out NorthSouth
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We got the land now what? What was the main controversy about the newly acquired territories?
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Questions to Answer: John C. Calhoun believed in nullification and secession. In your own words define: nullification secession What were the Major Contributions of Henry Clay? The Compromise of 1850 included the Fugitive Slave Act. What did the Fugitive Slave Act require citizens to do? What was the Underground Railroad? Who was its most famous Conductor?
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3/5ths Compromise Made to ratify Constitution “all other people” counted as 3/5 of 1 person for representation purposes Never dealt with the question of slavery.
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…and it’s still coming up. Missouri Added as a Slave State Maine added as a Free State Both = at 11 No Slave states North of 36 parallel in Louisiana Territory The Missouri Compromise of 1820
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John C. Calhoun South Carolinian Pro-States Rights Pro-Slavery Saw Tariff of 1828 as threatening to his state Nullify- not to honor a national law
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South Carolina US tariffs placed on imports, made SC’s raw materials less valuable. Choose not to honor tariffs (nullify federal law) Secession- the idea that states could withdraw from union because they joined voluntarily.
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Jackson and Calhoun President Jackson sends US Military down to South Carolina to enforce tariffs. South Carolina backs down Pretext to coming civil war
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Thars GOLD in them Thar Hills! California asks to me admitted to the Union as a free (non-slave state) This would upset the balance of free and slave states What to do?
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Henry Clay to the rescue! The “Great Compromisor” Architect of Missouri Compromise of 1820 Compromise of 1850 California enters as a free state A Stronger Fugitive Slave Law created
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Compromise of 1850 California Added as Free State UT/NM popular sovereignty Popular sovereignty- letting states decide if they would be free or slave states
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The Fugitive Slave Act Added to Compromise of 1850 Required that private citizens apprehend slaves Very unpopular with Abolitionists and freed blacks.
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Underground Railroad Secret Group of Conductors who would move escaped slaves from the south to the north Harriett Tubman most famous conductor- “Black Moses”
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Kansas/Nebraska Act of 1854 Stephen Douglas Expanded “popular sovereignty” into Kansas and Nebraska territories Bleeding Kansas
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Exit Ticket John C. Calhoun believed in nullification and secession. In your own words define: nullification secession What were the Major Contributions of Henry Clay? The Compromise of 1850 included the Fugitive Slave Act. What did the Fugitive Slave Act require citizens to do? What was the Underground Railroad? Who was its most famous Conductor?
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Table Missouri Compromise Nullification Crisis Compromise of 1850 Kansas- Nebraska Act Year1820182818501854 Important PeopleHenry Clay North got South got Slavery in New Territories N/APopular Sovereignty in Utah, New Mexico
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