1. Chapter 6, Section 1 Slavery & Western Expansion
US History
Chapter 6, Section 1
Slavery & Western Expansion

2. The Impact of the War With Mexico
New land opened.
Should slavery be allowed to spread westward?

3. The Impact of the War With Mexico
The Wilmot Proviso proposed that in any territory the US gained from Mexico, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist.”
House of Representatives pass it?
Senate pass it?
Who spoke against it?
Why?

4. The Impact of the War With Mexico
Popular Sovereignty
What is it?
Pros (2)
Con

5. The Impact of the War With Mexico
The Free-Soil Party:
Election Year:
Candidates: 1. 2. 3.

6. Congress Struggles for a Compromise
California
Gold Rush
of 1849
Statehood

7. Congress Struggles for a Compromise
80,000 “Forty-Niners”
Chaos & Violence
Needed a strong ____________________
Applied to the Union as a __________________________________

8. Congress Struggles for a Compromise
The Debate Begins
Who came up with 8 resolutions?
What was his nickname?
Who upheld the South’s rights?
Who pleaded for national unity?
Free States
Slave States

9. Congress Struggles for a Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
President ____________ died.
__________________ became president.
Senator ______________ died.
Senator ______________ retired.
Senator ______________ was exhausted.
________________________ divided the compromise into smaller parts which each passed individually.

10. The Fugitive Slave Act Component of the Compromise of 1850
Capture of ________________________
The accused had no _________________________________
Ordinary citizens had to help capture runaway slaves
Abolitionist _______________ would speak against it
1849 Henry David Thoreau essay __________________________________

11. The Fugitive Slave Act The Underground Railroad Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The most famous conductor:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Author:

12. New Territorial Troubles
1852 Election
President ____________________________
A Transcontinental Railroad 1850’s
Agreement in the senate:
Disagreement in the senate:
The Kansas-Nebraska Act __________
Increased tensions because it went against the Missouri Compromise
Nebraska: __________ state
Kansas: __________ state

13. New Territorial Troubles
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas became the scene of a territorail civil war between _________________________ and ___________________ settlers.
The Caning of Charles Sumner
Caned by Representative Preston Brooks
Strengthened the abolitionists’ determination to resist the “________________________”.