THE NATION BREAKING APART

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CHAPTER 15

• THE NATION BREAKING APART

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SECTION 1

• GROWING TENSIONS BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH

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DIFFERENCES IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH
NORTH SOUTH
FARMING, MORE INDUSTRY FARMING
LARGE CITIES FEW CITIES
ROADS, CANALS, RAILROADS STREAMS AND RIVERS
LOW PAID WORKERS SLAVES
INVESTED IN FACTORIES INVESTED IN LAND AND SLAVES
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SLAVERY AND THE NORTH

• ABOLITIONIST END IMMEDIATELY
• ONLY A SMALL PERCENT WERE ABOLITIONIST
• MOST NORTHERNERS OPPOSED SLAVERY
• WORKERS FEARED THEY WOULD LOSE JOBS TO FORMERS
  SLAVES
• MOST WHITES WERE RACIST
• SOUTHERNERS THOUGHT SLAVES WERE BETTER OFF THAN
  WAGE SLAVES

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WILMONT PROVISO

• U.S. NEEDED A PLAN TO DEAL WITH LANDS WON FROM
  MEXICO
• WILMONT PROVISO
• OUTLAWED SLAVERY IN NEW TERRITORIES
• SOUTHRNERSWERE OUTRAGED
• CONGRESS DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL THEM
  WHERE THEY COULD TAKE THEIR PROPERTY
• DID NOT PASS
• FREE-SOIL PARTY
• FRE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LABOR, FREE MEN
• STOP THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY

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COMPROMISE OF 1850

• CALIFORNIA BECOMING A FREE STATE
• UPSET THE BALANCE IN THE SENATE
• HENRY CLAY WORKED OUT THE COMPROMISE OF 1850
• CALIFORNIA ENTER AS A FREE STATE
• WASHINGTON DC ABOLISH SLAVE TRADE
• TERRITORIES WOULD VOTE ON SLAVERY
• STRONGER RUNAWAY SLAVE LAWS
• STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS HELPED GET THE COMPROMISE
  PASSED THROUGH CONGRESS

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SECTION 1 QUIZ

1. HOW IS THE NORTH BETTER THAN THE SOUTH?2
2. IF MOST NORTHERNERS WERE OPPOSED TO SLAVERY WHY
   DID THEY NOT WANT IT TO END?3
3. WHAT DID THE FRE-SOIL PARTY WANT?2
4. WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM OF CALIFORNIA BECOMING A
   STATE?2
5. HOW WOULD THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 KEEP THE BALANCE
   IN THE SENATE?4

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SECTION 2

• THE CRISIS DEEPENS

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FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• LAW TO CAPTURE RUNAWAY SLAVES
• NO TRIAL, A COMMISSIONER RULED
• 5 FOR RELEASING, 10 FOR SENDING BACK INTO
  SLAVERY
• IF NORTHERNERS DID NOT HELP THEY WERE FINED, JAIL
  TERMS FOR PEOPLE WHO HELP SLAVES ESCAPE

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UNCLE TOMS CABIN

• WRITTEN BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
• MORAL ISSUES OF SLAVERY
• ABOUT A SLAVES LIFE
• INCREASED ABOLITIONISM
• SOUTHERNERS THOUGHT IT FALSELY CRITICIZED SLAVERY

A PICTURE FROM UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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BLEEDING KANSAS

• KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
• STEPEN A. DOUGLAS INTRODUCED IT
• ORGANIZE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA INTO TERRITORIES
• SLAVERY WOULD BE DECIDED BY POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
• THIS GOES AGAINST THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• PROSLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY FORCES RUSHED TO
  KANSAS
• VIOLENCE WAS WIDE SPREAD
• JOHN BROWN MURDERED FIVE PROSLAVERY MEN IN
  LAWRENCE
• THIS CAUSED A WAR TO BREAK OUT IN KANSAS

JOHN BROWN
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SECTION 2 QUIZ

1. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU LIVED IN THE NORTH WHEN
   THE FUGITVE SLAVE ACT WAS IN EFFECT?5
2. HOW WOULD YOU PORTRAY SLAVERY IF YOU WERE TO
   WRITE A BOOK ABOUT IT?5
3. DEFINE POPULAR SOVERIENGTY.1
4. WHAT WAS THE REASON FOR PEOPLE TO RUSH TO
   KANSAS?4
5. WHAT IS YOUR OPION OF THE WAY PEOPLE ACTED IN
   KANSAS?6

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SECTION 34

• THE EFFECTS OF SLAVERY ON THE UNITED STATES

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SLAVERY AND POLITICS

• REPUBLICAN PARTY
• STOP THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY
• STARTED BECAUSE OF THE WHIGS SPLIT
• OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION OF 1856
• REPUBLICANS WERE A MAJOR FORCE IN THE NORTH
• THE NATION WAS SPLIT OVER SLAVERY

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ISSUES AND EVENTS

• THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT
• SUPREME COURT CASE
• SUED FOR HIS FREEDOM
• COURT RULED AGAINST DRED SCOT
• HE WAS NOT AN U.S. CITIZEN, HE WAS PROPERTY
• CONGRESS COULD NOT BAN SLAVERY IN TERRITORIES
• LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATES
• RUNNING FOR THE SENATE
• DOUGLAS WON BUT LINCOLN BECAME VERY POPULAR

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FORT AT HAPERS FERRY
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ELECTION OF 1860

• SLAVERY WAS A MAJOR ISSUE
• POLITICAL PARTIES SPLIT
• FOUR CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
• LINCOLN WINS THE ELECTION

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SOUTERN STATES SECEDE

• BECAUSE LINCOLN WINS THE ELECTION SOUTHERN STATES
  SECEDE
• SOUTH CAROLINA IS THE FIRST
• CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IS FORMED (CSA),
  CONFEDERCY
• JEFFERSON DAVIS IS ELECTED PRESIDENT
• LINCOLN RESPONSE
• HE DID NOT WANT TO END SLAVERY
• HE SPOKE AGAINST SECESSION
• HE WANTED NO INVASION INTO THE SOUTH

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SECTION 34 QUIZ

1. WHAT WAS THE MAIN GOAL FOR THE NEW REPUBLICAN
   PARTY?.1
2. HOW IS DRED SCOT RELATED TO THE SPREAD OF
   SLAVERY?4
3. HOW DOES THEELECTION OF 1860 SHOW A SPLIT IN THE
   UNITED STATES?4
4. HOW DID LINCOLN CAUSE THE SOUTHERN STATES TO
   SECEDE?4
5. WHAT WAS LINCOLNS VIEW ON SLAVERY?2