Bell Ringer How did the US solve the issue of slavery and admitting Missouri as a state in 1820?

Bell Ringer

• How did the US solve the issue of slavery and admitting Missouri as a state in 1820?

Missouri Compromise

• 1820

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Signed in Mexico City on February 2, 1848

• Ended the US-Mexican War– Gave the US 55% of

Mexico’s territory (525,000 mi2) in return for $15 million

Mexican Cession

Compromise of 1850

1. California admitted at a free state2. Rest of Mexican Cession organized into a

territory where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty

3. Addressed border dispute between Texas and New Mexico

4. End of slave trade in Washington, D.C.5. A more effective Fugitive Slave Law

Fugitive Slave Act

• Federal Crime to help a runaway slave.• All runaway slaves were to be returned to

their owners, regardless if they were found in the North or South.– Many African-Americans, both freemen and

runaways, fled to Canada.• Inspired Harriet Beecher

Stowe to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Senator Stephen Douglas wants to settle the issue of slavery for good.1. Repealed the Missouri Compromise2. Formed Kansas and Nebraska Territories3. Allowed them to decide on the issue of slavery

using popular sovereignty.

Compromises on Slavery

• Each group member will complete a map looking at the changing state of slavery in the US.– Missouri Compromise (p. 312)– Compromise of 1850 (p. 431)– Kansas-Nebraska Act (p. 431)

• As a group use your maps to answer the 10 questions.

Homework

• Read Chapter 16, Lesson 1 “The Search for Compromise” p. 428 - 432– Complete the Guided Reading Worksheet– Due on Monday

Bell Ringer

• How did the Compromise of 1850 solve the issue of slavery in the Mexican Cession?

Comparing Compromises

Ken Burns: The West

• Episode 4: Death Runs Riot– What was happening in Kansas during the spring

of 1856?

Bell Ringer

• What happened in Kansas during the spring of 1856?

Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Kansas

Caning of Senator Charles Sumner

On May 22, 1856 after he gave a speech in the Senate called the “Crime Against Kansas” he was caned by Rep. Preston Brooks of

South Carolina.

Dred Scott

• Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)– Scott, a slave, sued for his

freedom

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

• In your group work through:– Background Summary– Trace Dred Scott’s Travels– Classifying Arguments– And Summary of the Decision

• Be ready to discuss as a whole group the Summary of the Decision’s Questions to Consider

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

• Homework– Read Chapter 16, Lesson 2: Challenges to Slavery• p. 433 – 438

– Complete the Guided Reading• Due on Friday

Bell Ringer

• Why was Dred Scott’s suit for freedom dismissed by the Supreme Court?

Dred Scott Decision

Formation of the Republican Party

• Started in the early 1850s– Anti-slavery Whigs– Northern Democrats– Free-Soilers

• 1854 Congressional Elections– Republicans won control of the House of

Representatives and several State Governments

Illinois 1858 Senate Race

Abraham Lincoln - Republican• Born in Kentucky

– February 12, 1809

• Illinois State Legislature from 1834 to 1837

• Became a lawyer in 1837• US House of

Representatives 1847-1849

Stephen Douglas - Democrat• Born in Vermont

– April 23, 1813

• Illinois State Senator 1836 – 1841

• Judge of Supreme Court of Illinois 1841 – 1843

• US House of Representatives 1843 - 1847

• US Senate 1847 – present– Wrote Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Bell Ringer

• What are Lincoln and Douglas’s beliefs on the equality of blacks and whites?

Illinois 1858 Senate Race

Bell Ringer

• What can we learn about America in the 1850s by reading the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?

Election of 1860

• Complete the Guided Reading worksheet for Chapter 16, Lesson 3 (p. 439 – 442).– On the backside answer the following questions: • What did South Carolina do after Lincoln won the

election of 1860? Why?• What role did the idea of states’ rights play in the

outbreak of the civil war?

Election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln Stephen Douglas John C. Breckinridge John Bell

Republican Northern Democrat Southern Democrat Constitutional Union

Popular Sovereignty Uphold Slavery No Stance on SlaveryBan Expansion of Slavery

Election of 1860

Election of 1860

Election of 1860

Quest

• Chapter 13, Lessons 2 & 3 and Chapter 16• 25 points– 10 Matching– 9 Multiple Choice– 2 Short Answer (3 pts)