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Review Question:

1. What was the Wilmot Proviso?

2. How did it affect the tensions betw

the north and south?



SSUSH8 e. Explain how the Compro

1850 arose out of territorial expansi

population growth.

SSUSH9 a. Explain the Kansas-Neb

Act, the failure of popular sovereignScott case, and John Brown’s Raid



Unit 4: A Nation Divided

Lesson 3: Failed Compromise



What do we do with the New Terr

• To counter the Wilmot Proviso and to ease te

proposal was made to allow the new territoriefor themselves on the slavery issue, an idea

popular sovereignty

• California applied for statehood in 1849, thre

break the balance of free and slave states• To settle the balance, Henry Clay proposed a

which became know as the Compromise of 1



Compromise of 1850• The compromise:

• 1. California became free state• 2. Slave trade ended in D.C. but could

slaves they already had.

• 3. New Mexico and Utah territories could

for themselves if they would be free or sstates. (Popular Sovereignty)

• 4. Fugitive Slave Act: Runaway slaves

states must be returned to their owners.

Northerners refused to obey)



1820

1828

1846

1845

1848

Missouri

Compromise

Andrew Jackson is

elected/nullification

crisis

Annexation of

Texas

Mexican

War

Gold is

discovered in

CA

Treaty of

Guadalupe

Hidalgo

Seneca Falls

Convention

1850

CA

FR

C

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The Compromise Fails• During the 1850s, the U.S.

Government developed the

plan for a Transcontinental

Railroad

• The RR caused the same

expansion issue to be

revisited again- new

territories needed to

become states (Nebraska

Territory)



How about another compromis• The Compromise of 1850 settled the issue of

the Missouri Compromise settled the issue of

and Maine

• Many people thought that if we add in TWO te

then one would be a slave territory, and the ot

be a free territory, but this did not happen

• If the Missouri Compromise stood, how would

states feel?



The Kansas-Nebraska Ac

• Terms of this bill:

1. Repeal the Missouri Compromise

Which would allow slavery in the re

2. the slavery question was left up to

people in the territories (Popular Sove

• By this time, people’s support of sla

opposition of slavery was extreme



Bleeding Kansas• In Kansas, supporters of slavery drafted a Con

allowing slavery• Opponents of slavery drafted a Constitution

closes slavery to the territory

• Violence erupted because of disagreements b

slavery; known as “Bleeding Kansas”

• Delays statehood of Kansas



Slavery and sectionalis

intensifies• Many events show how the conditi

the Union becomes more vulnerab

during the 1850s

• 1852: Uncle Tom’s Cabin • 1855: Bleeding Kansas

• 1857: Dred Scott Supreme Court Dec

• 1859: John Brown’s Raid



Dred Scott Case-1857

• Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri in the 185

when he and his “owner” entered into a free s

• After the “owner” dies, Scott sues for freedom

claiming because he went to a place where s

was not allowed, he was free.

•Supreme court ruled against Scott in 1857 be

Scott was not a “citizen” he could not sue.

• Also struck down the Missouri Compromise s

slave owners could not have their “Property” t

from them without due process of law.



Exit Ticket!

• When do you think it was clear thacompromises would no longer wor

resolve the expansion and slavery

in the United States?

J h B ’ R id



John Brown’s Raid Step 1: Read “John Brown’s Raid” section in bo

and fill in the notes on your sheet from yesterday.

in the desks) Who is John Brown? What happen

did John Brown raid Harpers Ferry? What was

outcome? What were some effects?

Step 2: Choose one of the documents as a groupcomplete the Primary Source Sheet.

Step 3: Opinion paragraph-Individual “Was John B

or murderer?” (Ignore 200 word minimum)- 1 para

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