1. Protesting Slavery
Aim: How did some citizens take action to protest slavery?
Do Now: What was the Compromise of 1850?

2. The Compromise of 1850 California becomes a state
Tipping the balance of slave and free states
The compromise
California would be a free state
No laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico
Law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves

3. The Fugitive Slave Act
Runaway slaves to the north must be returned to south
If help fugitive, than go to jail
A moral choice
Obey the law or break the law to oppose slavery?

5. DO NOW
TAKE OUT HOMEWORK
MARY PRINCE AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS WORKSHEET

6. Protesting Slavery
Aim: How did some citizens take action to protest slavery?
Do Now: What would you do to protest/stop slavery if you were living in the mid-1800s?

7. Underground Railroad
An aboveground series of escape routes from the South to the North
Travel at night
Created by abolitionists

8. Harriet Tubman Conductor – person who helped runaways to freedom
19 journeys to free slaves
Carried a pistol
$40,000 reward for her capture

9. Routes of the “Railroad”

11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Reaction from Fugitive Slave Act
A novel that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
Made many people realize and hate the horrors of slavery