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1 A GUN Sectionalism - loyalty to your part of the country
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The Cotton Gin – A device used to separate cotton from its seeds 2 A SHOE The Cotton Gin – Much faster than doing it by hand. Makes cotton more profitable.
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American Expansion 1800 - 1853 DO NOW: Answer the following question: Why do you think Westward expansion would complicate the issue of slavery? 3 A TREE
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3 A TREE Westward Expansion America expands westward and adds new states. Problem: Will the new states be “Slave States” or “Free States” ?(No Slavery)
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3 A TREE FREE Westward Expansion If more states are admitted as “Free” then the anti-slavery North will have a majority in Congress. and control the future of America
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3 A TREE SLAVE Westward Expansion But, If more states are admitted as “Slave” States then the pro-slavery South will have a majority in Congress.
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3 A TREE The side with the most states has the most representation in Congress and can control the future of slavery in America
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4 A DOOR My Door !
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4 A DOOR
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4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. the Missouri Compromise of 1820, allowed the free and slave states to remain balanced with the admissions of Missouri and Maine as slave and free states. My Door !
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4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. the Missouri Compromise of 1820, PROBLEM: failure to continue the admission of states in pairs of free and slave led to an imbalance My Door !
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4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Also limits slavery in the Western Territories North of the line of Missouri’s Southern border My Door ! No Slavery Slavery OK
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4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. The Compromise of 1850, California is admitted as a Free state even though half of it falls below the Missouri Compromise line. My Door !
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4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. My Door ! The Compromise of 1850, Strengthens the Fugitive Slave Act which angers the North and preserves slavery in Washington DC.
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4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allows white male settlers in those territories to vote and decide if they to want to allow slavery. (popular sovereignty ) My Door !
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5 A HIVE The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allows popular sovereignty - settlers in those territories are to decide by voting whether or not they would allow slavery.
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5 A HIVE PROBLEM ! Settlers swarm across the border into Kansas. From the North come abolitionists and from the South people called “Border Ruffians” who want Kansas to be a slave state.
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5 A HIVE BLEEDING KANSAS ! The violence that breaks out between the two groups is so much that the Territory becomes known as ____________________ _______________________.
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5 A HIVE One man drawn to the violent conflict in Kansas in a fanatical abolitionist named John Brown ____________________ _______________________.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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An anti-slavery novel by abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe The novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. This was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Dredd Scott
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Dredd Scott The Underground Railroad
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin The Underground Railroad Dredd Scott WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Dredd Scott The Underground Railroad WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON The American Anti-Salvery Society
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Dredd Scott The Underground Railroad WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON The American Anti-Salvery Society
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7 HEAVEN States Rights – The opinion that the individual states should have more sovereign power than the Federal government.
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7 HEAVEN The South is worried that the North would interfere with their states rights and do away with slavery.
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8 A GATE THE WINNER OF THE ELECTION OF 1860 The Election of 1800 and Secession – Abraham Lincoln from the anri-slavery Republican Party wins the election
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8 A GATE THE WINNER OF THE ELECTION OF 1860 The Election of 1800 and Secession –the South begins to secede (leave) the Union.
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