1. Do now 9/9/16 What 2 women played a role as abolitionists?
How did John Brown take on slavery as an abolitionist?
Have out yesterday’s do now to be checked.

2. Section 2: The Coming Conflict
Chapter 5
Section 2: The Coming Conflict

3. Leaders of the Missouri Territory applied to enter the Union as a slave state.
This would make the number of senators between slaves and free states uneven.

4. Missouri Compromise (1820)
Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
Banned slavery north of 36°N in the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.
This helped maintain the balance in the U.S. Senate.

5. Moving West
In 1848, the U.S. gained a large amount of land in the West.
Eventually, California wanted to enter the union as a free state which would upset the Senate balance.

6. Compromise of 1850 California joined the Union as a free state.
The rest of the land gained was organized into the New Mexico and Utah territories.
In those territories, the issue to allow slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.
Ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia and created tougher fugitive slave laws.

7. Fugitive Slave Act Made assisting runaway slaves a federal crime
People who helped or hid fugitive slaves were subject to fines and imprisonment.
African Americans accused of being runaways had to prove that they were free.

8. 3 key events that triggered Civil War

9. 1. Kansas – Nebraska Act:
organized Kansas and Nebraska into territories.
allowed the issue of slavery in them to be decided by popular sovereignty
both pro and anti slavery people sent supporters to live in Kansas trying to influence the vote there.

10. 2. Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was an enslaved Missouri man who sued for his freedom after traveling to the free territories of Illinois and Wisconsin.
The U.S. Supreme Court stated that Scott could not sue because he was not a citizen.

11. Also stated that the 5th amendment protected the property rights of slave holders.
Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because it deprived slaveholders of due process of law.

12. 3. John Brown’s Raid
Brown planned to seize weapons from Harper’s Ferry federal arsenal in Virginia and use them to arm a slave revolt.
He successfully broke into the arsenal but few slaves were willing to run away and join Brown.
Local militias trapped Brown’s group in the arsenal.
Brown was tried, found guilty and hanged.

13. The Nation Splits
In 1854, antislavery parties combined to form the Republican Party.
In 1860, the party chose Abraham Lincoln as its presidential candidate and he won.
The election propelled 7 southern states to secede (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas).
They formed the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy.

14. Remainder of class
Finish Incidents of a Slave Girl article and questions: Due today
Start working on comic strip: due Sept. 15