COMPROMISES BEFORE THE CIVIL

WAR

SPI 5.4 Draw on information from multiple print or digital

resources explaining the events that made slavery a national

issue during the mid-19th century, including:

Missouri Compromise; Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Compromise of

1850; Brook’s attack on Sumner; Kansas-Nebraska Act; John

Brown’s Raid; Dred Scott case

MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1820)

Maine = Free State

Missouri = Slave

State

36°30’ boundary

https://www.youtube.c

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MISSOURI COMPROMISE

UNCLE TOM’S CABINA book that talked about the cruelty of slaveryNortherners increased their protests against the Fugitive Slave Act Southerners protested against the book because they felt it was an attack on the South

http://video.pbs.org/video/2295592489/

COMPROMISE OF 1850California = Free State

Utah and New Mexico

Territory => up to

people who live there

Fugitive Slave Law:

Free States must help

catch and return

escaped slaveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvlUqV1vwTc

COMPROMISE OF 1850

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BROOKS ATTACK ON SUMNER

Northern Senator: Charles Sumner

Southern Senator: Preston Brooks

Senator Brooks attacked Senator Sumner in the Senate over the

issue of slavery.

In May of 1856, an abolitionist Senator Sumner gave a 2 day speech

against the Kansas-Nebraska act. Making many southerner Senators

angry, including Preston Brooks. Senator Brooks physically attacked and

severely beat Senator Sumner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSuSGde5cw

KANSAS - NEBRASKA ACT(1854)

Establishes Popular Sovereignty in Kansas & Nebraska Territory, meaning the people who live there will vote on the issue of slavery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgp7La-xs3s

JOHN BROWN

Violent Abolitionist

Lead a raid by

attacking an arsenal to

gain weapons for

slaves

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JOHN BROWN’S RAID

John Brown and his men tried to steal weapons from the arsenal. They were caught and didn’t get away with it. Seven people died in the fight. John Brown was later hanged for his role in the raid.

In 1859, John Brown and a group of his supporters attacked the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. It didn’t work, but the South was afraid that his raid would have led to a slave uprising if it had worked. The North celebrated his raid and even wrote songs about him!

DRED SCOTT CASE

Owner takes Scott to a free state

(Wisconsin)

Scott sues for freedom

Supreme Court states that slaves were

personal property and that Blacks are

“so inferior that they had no rights

which a white man was bound to

respect”

http://video.pbs.org/video/2298073069/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

9j3lKSs2ZoA