1. 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?

2. Slavery in American & events leading up to the Civil War

3. 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

5. 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

6. Slave Auction

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

16. 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

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