1. Business Schedule (B): -- -- -- -- --April Vacation-- -- -- -- --
Today- California
½ Day
½ Day
SAT and PSAT
(Q3 ends)
Expansion Quiz
Reforms
Reforms
April Vacation
CAPT
Assignment due
Slavery
Reforms 2

2. Business Schedule (H): -- -- -- -- --April Vacation-- -- -- -- --
Today- California
½ Day
½ Day
SAT and PSAT
(Q3 ends)
Expansion Quiz
Reforms
April Vacation
CAPT
Review / work time
Assignment due
Slavery
Reforms 2

3. Business Work handed back
Expansion quiz (last grade for Q3) (will include maps)
B- Monday
H- Tuesday
Mexican American War
Why?

4. How did gold and slavery affect Expansion?
California, Utah

5. Utah Mass migration of Mormons to Great Salt Lake
In Utah
Largely undeveloped
City just for Mormons
Around same time as Oregon Trail
~1847

6. Mormons Mormon religion- started in 1820s by Joseph Smith
Polygamy- men could have multiple wives
Group had private army
Experienced discrimination and violence
Joseph Smith murdered in 1844
Had to leave to practice religion
Salt Lake City

7. Gold in California January 1848- gold discovered in California
1847- CA is in US (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) (but not state yet)
“finders keepers”
Forty-Niners- thousands of prospectors came to California in 1849

8. Life in California Mining camps: Who succeeded?
Temporary, lack of “proper” living/rules, men
Many different people, close spaces
Many more men than women
Who succeeded?
Not prospectors, people who opened stores / owned land

9. California as a State? Free Slave Free or slave?
1820- Missouri Compromise
Divided new territory into free and slave states
South of Missouri = slavery
North of Missouri = free
Missouri Compromise divided California in two
Free
Slave

10. Discussion / debate about slavery in new areas
Slavery in the 1800s
Discussion / debate about slavery in new areas
Northern View
Can’t abolish (get rid of) slavery where it already exists
Have to stop slavery from spreading to new territory
Slavery is wrong, sinful
Southern View
Have the right to take slaves into new territory
Slavery is right

11. Compromise of 1850 1850- Compromise between North and South:
California a free state
Other territory- popular sovereignty
The people decide if free or slave
Slave trade in Washington DC outlawed
Harsh fugitive slave law

12. Expansion Quiz Westward Expansion / Manifest Destiny Texas
Revolutions
Mexican American War
Westward Movement
Oregon Trail
Salt Lake City- Mormons
Gold in the West
Free and Slave Territory / Compromises

13. Expansion Map Fill out map- complete On back of map sheet-
(turning in when done- take picture to study from?)
On back of map sheet-
How does this image relate to today’s lesson?
Utah
California
Compromises
Turn in, get review sheet

14. Different Views
Write an editorial (opinion-based article) for a newspaper arguing against allowing slavery in the new territories
Write another editorial for a newspaper arguing for allowing slavery in the new territories