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Slavery 1820-1860
US History: Spiconardi
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Missouri wanted to apply for statehood Missouri wanted to apply for statehood in
1817 Who would decide whether it would be a
slave state or free state? North Congress had to decide South Congress had no authority to
prevent the extension of slavery; Congress had to duty to protect slavery (property)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Henry Clay offers a solution Missouri would enter the Union as a slave
state The Maine Territory of Massachusetts would be
made a free state to keep balance All future states north of Missouri’s southern
border would be free, the rest slave states.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Preacher from Virginia who panned revolt for several years
In 1831, slaughters 60 whites (women & children included) in 48 hours 200 innocent blacks killed in retaliation
Impact Laws passed censoring abolitionist papers Laws passed limiting black education & religious
practices
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Abolition Should it be gradual or immediate? William Lloyd Garrison
“Radical” Abolitionist Founds The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper)
and Anti-Slavery Society Abolition Arguments
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Abolition
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Conveys the agonies faced by slave families; brought home the evils of slavery to people who never thought of it previously
Women’s Rights Seneca Falls
Convention (1848) equality and suffrage for women
Compromise of 1850 California applies to enter Union as a free
state South angry They will lose power in
Congress Compromise
California enters as a free state Fugitive Slave Act
Required all slaves be returned to their owners Popular Sovereignty people living in the
Mexican Cession territories would decide to be free or slave
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act Exposes the flaws of the Compromise of
1850 Missouri Compromise is ignored
Kansas allowed to decide its fate via popular sovereignty
Missourians cross the border into Kansas an vote 1,500 registered voters, yet 6,000 people show 6,000 people show
up to voteup to vote Two governments develop: Free and Slave
governments
Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas
Pro-slavery mobs destroy homes, stores, and an abolitionist newspaper office
John Brown leads a anti-slavery group and kills pro-slavery settlers
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Violence in the Senate Chambers Sen. Charles Sumner (MA) speaks out
against violence & insults a South Carolinian Senator Rep. Preston Brooks attacks Sen. Sumner with
his cane Sumner goes to therapy for 3 years South Carolinians send Brooks commemorative
canes Violence in Congress would evolve into war