2. What would you do? #1 Two siblings share a room. One sibling likes to read in a quiet atmosphere while the other sibling likes to play video games with the volume turned up. They always argue over their room. What would be your solution?

3. What would you do? You are on a field trip with your group. You have $50 dollars to spend. Each person in the group likes a different activity. Your teacher said that the group has to stay together. How do you spend your $50?

4. As a state determine which solution works best for your state? Why?

5. Compromise: an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions

6. Think About it 1.What were the challenges of this decision? 2. How do you think this relates to government?

7. KEY CONCEPTS & VOCAB KEY CONCEPTS & VOCABULARY What question does this image ask? ?

8. As the territory of the United States expanded across the continent, would new states become slave states – or free? ?

9. What did abolitionists want?

10. United States, 1819 The number of slave-states equaled the number of free states. Would the new states in the Louisiana Territory be allowed to have slavery? What would be a good COMPROMISE for this situation?

11. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 quieted the slavery debate for a while In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

12. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 quieted the slavery debate for a while

13. Compromise of 1850 California was admitted as a “free state”. The rest of the territories could decide for themselves whether to permit slavery or not. A strong Fugitive Slave Law, strongly opposed by Northerners, required them to return runaway slaves to their owners

14. Life as a slave Explain what you think life would be like as a slave

15. What happened? What do you think were the consequences?

16. Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831) Nat Turner (a slave) and six men went from house to house, killing all of the white people they encountered. Turner's force eventually consisted of more than 40 slaves. In the end, the rebels had stabbed, shot and clubbed at least 55 white people to death.

17. Nat Turner was eventually captured He was hanged and beheaded In the hysterical climate that followed the rebellion, close to 200 black people, many of whom had nothing to do with the rebellion, were murdered by white mobs.

19. Dred Scott Decision The U.S. Supreme Court had to decide… Was he a Person or Property? Dred Scott, a slave from Missouri, went to court and sued for his freedom on the grounds that when his master took him to free territories he was no longer a slave. Hint: 4 Northern judges, 5 Southern judges

20. You are a slave living in America in 1857. How would you feel after hearing about the Dred Scott decision?: What would you think you future is going to be like?

21. Chief Justice Roger Taney Slaves were not citizens, so they could not sue in court Slaves were property, so Congress did not have the power to ban slavery in any territory Therefore, the Missouri Compromise was “unconstitutional” Dred Scott remained a slave

22. “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” October 16, 1859

23. US is split into the North and the South

24.  Factories  Banks  Urban – city

25.  Freedom for slaves – abolitionists  Wanted a strong government to rule the country  Many different people from different cultures

26.  Plantations, farms  Shipped goods to Europe and the North for money  Rural - country

27.  Depended on slavery  Wanted the states to be in power  Mostly Whites with Blacks as slaves

28.  South shipped a lot of goods to Europe and was taxed for this  Anything the South received from Europe was taxed

29.  South felt tariffs were unfair  North felt it was fair – needed to protect American goods

30.  South believed the states should have more power than the federal government  South: States should be able to say laws are illegal  North: Federal government should be more powerful than the states

31.  North: All slaves should be free  South: Leave us alone! Slaves are our property!  South: Needed slaves as free labor to work the cotton fields  North: Slavery is evil!

32.  North: Didn’t want slavery to spread to the West  South: States should be able to be admitted to the US as slave states

33.  Election of Lincoln angered the South  South: Lincoln would not treat the South fairly  South: Lincoln likes abolitionists  North: Lincoln wants to keep the US together as one union  South: If Lincoln is elected, we are going to secede!

34.  South Carolina is the 1 st state to secede from the Union Dec. 20, 1860  10 other states secede after South Carolina  Confederacy (South) vs. Union (North)  4 border slave states stay with the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri

38. Civil War: a war that is between the people of one country Abolitionists: people who are against slavery Tariff: a tax Secede/Secession: withdrawing from a union or a group Compromise: an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions

39. Closing Question Which reason do you think was the main reason for the Civil War? Why?