1. The Union In Peril

2. The Situation
Textbook pg 76

3. In your notes write what you think this is describing

4. Beginnings
What is manifest destiny?
How might it be related to the Civil War?

6. Gold found in California
Population Boom
Statehood

7. Henry Clay 2. Slave trade in Washington DC. was abolished
Compromise of 1850
Fails at first, but is broken into individual bills and the new president (Filmore) supports it
1. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
2. Slave trade in Washington DC. was abolished
3. California was accepted into the Union as a free state.
4. Governments in New Mexico and Utah were organized and open to popular sovereignty

9. Met with intense hostility and resistance
Why?
Slave catcher only had to point to a “runaway”
Accused had no rights to jury, testify, etc.

10. Agree or Disagree
Students should be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance
Everyone should be required to stand for the national anthem
Teachers should be allowed to look in a student’s locker any time
Metal detectors should be installed at Leon High School
Students should not be allowed to express political sentiments
Students should wear a school uniform

11. Is it right to not obey the law?
Which of these, if enacted into law, would you actively not comply with/break? Other examples?
Is it right to not obey the law?
Law and order, change the law don’t work against it vs. civil disobedience
Line up scale

12. What to the American Slave Is the 4th of July? – Frederick Douglas
The Fugitive Slave Law makes MERCY TO THEM, A CRIME; and bribes the judge who tries them. An American JUDGE GETS TEN DOLLARS FOR EVERY VICTIM HE CONSIGNS to slavery, and five, when he fails to do so Let this damning fact be perpetually told that, in tyrant---killing, king---hating, people---loving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their offices under an open and palpable bribe I take this law to be one of the grossest infringements of Christian Liberty, and, if the churches and ministers of our country were not stupidly blind, or most wickedly indifferent, they, too, would so regard it

13. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriett Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Changed Northern perceptions

14. Resistance Underground Railroad embodied resistance
Songs to lead to freedom
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