5/8/18

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1.   Whatethnicgroupsareatthetable?

2.Whatisthedifferencebetweenthem&UncleSam?

3.Isthisprooran?immigra?on?Why?

5/8/18

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What:

Ø  Constantly new settlers

Ø  Mining

Ø  Connected by rail and telegraph

Ø  Economy based on slavery & plantations

Ø  King cotton exports bring $$$

Ø  Large cities

Ø  Many immigrants

Ø  Industry & manufacturing

Ø  1820 agreement on territories entering the Union Ø  East-west line drawn west through the Louisiana Purchase Ø  Missouri open to slavery but Maine free to keep balance of free & slave states

Key

Free State

Slave State

5/8/18

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Ø  California enters as a Free state; Texas is a slave state Ø  Stronger fugitive slave law to be enforced Ø  Slave trade banned in Washington, DC

Key

Free State

Slave State

Key

Free State

Slave State

Ø  Popular sovereignty will decide if Kansas and Nebraska are free or slave states Ø  Each state gets to choose for itself

Ø  Bleeding Kansas – pro-slavery men from Missouri caused riots across the state during voting

Ø  Republican Party forms from Whigs and Free Soil Democrats to oppose slavery