1. The Divisive Politics of Slavery
United States History
Mr. Mace

2. The Politics of Slavery
A Quick Review…

3. 1787 = Three-Fifths Compromise settles representation in Congress
1787 = Slavery is banned in the “Northwest” Territories North of the Ohio River

4. Start of the Civil War
How did the divide between North and South turn into a Civil War?
TO THIS?
FROM THIS?

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

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

7. States’ Rights Federal Power KEY CONCEPTS & VOCABULARY
Would the North or the South want states to have the POWER to make this decision?
Federal Power
Would the North or the South want the federal government to have the POWER to make this decision?

8. What did abolitionists want?

9. 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?

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

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Effect of the Rebellion
“Slave Codes” (laws) were tightened in the South
Slaves could not…
be taught to read or write
meet without a white person present
move from place to place freely

16. United States, 1848
Would the new land won in the war with Mexico become slave states or free states?

17. Compromise of 1850

18. The Terms of the Compromise of 1850…
California admitted as a Free State
Fugitive Slave Act is strengthened
Popular Sovereignty in Utah & New Mexico
Slave Trade is ended in Washington, D.C.
$10 million to Texas to settle border disputes.

19. The Role of Henry Clay
He shaped the Compromise and defended it!

20. The Role of John C. Calhoun
He opposed the Compromise!

21. The Role of Daniel Webster
He supported the Compromise!

22. The Role of Stephen Douglas
He saved the Compromise by having each item voted on separately!

23. Protest, Resistance, and Violence

24. Northerners Continue to Attack Slavery even after the Compromise of 1850!
Harriet Tubman conducts more than 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Beecher Stowe describes the evils of slavery in “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN”!

25. How had the Missouri Compromise proposed to limit slavery?
Forbade slavery north of the 36 Degree Line in the western territories

26. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose to deal with the issue of slavery?
Popular Sovereignty!

27. It’s the most democratic way to decide!
Why did Douglas believe that popular sovereignty would solve the problem of slavery?
It’s the most democratic way to decide!

28. Why did popular sovereignty lead to “Bleeding Kansas”?
Supporters from both sides flooded into Kansas to sway the vote either free or slave!

31. Slavery & Secession!

32. Dred Scott v. Sanford - 1857 Supporters? Proslavery forces
Reasons for support?
Guaranteed the extension of slavery into the west!

33. Douglas in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates - 1858
Supporters?
Proslavery = liked popular sovereignty
Antislavery = Freeport Doctrine

34. Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates - 1858
Supporters?
Antislavery forces
Reasons for support?
Spoke of the immorality of slavery
“A house divided can not stand!”

35. The Raid on Harpers Ferry - 1859
Supporters?
Antislavery forces
Reasons for support?
Hoped that it would start a slave revolt.

36. John Brown’s Hanging - 1859 Supporters? Proslavery forces
Reasons for support?
John Brown was a terrorist!

37. The election of Lincoln - 1860
Supporters?
Antislavery forces
Reasons for support?
Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery into the west.

38. The Secession of the Southern States – 1860, 1861
Supporters?
Proslavery forces
Reasons for support?
Support the right to leave the union.