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The Divisive Politics of Slavery
United States History
Mr. Mace
The Politics of Slavery
A Quick Review…
1787 = Three-Fifths Compromise settles
representation in Congress
1787 = Slavery is banned in the “Northwest”
Territories North of the Ohio River
Start of the Civil War
 How
did the divide between North
and South turn into a Civil War?
FROM THIS?
TO THIS?
KEY CONCEPTS & VOCABULARY
What question does this image
ask?
KEY CONCEPTS & VOCAB
?
As the territory of the United States
expanded across the continent,
would new states become slave
states – or free?
?
KEY CONCEPTS & VOCABULARY
 States’
Rights
– Would the North or the
South want states to
have the POWER to
make this decision?
 Federal
Power
– Would the North or the
South want the federal
government to have the
POWER to make this
decision?
What did abolitionists want?
United States, 1819
The number of
slave-states
equaled the
number of free
states.
 Would the new
states in the
Louisiana
Territory be
allowed to have
slavery?

What would be a good COMPROMISE for this
situation?
The Missouri Compromise of
1820 quieted the slavery debate
for a while
What happened? What do you think were the consequences?
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
(1831)
Nat Turner (a slave) and six
men went from house to
house, killing all of the white
people they encountered.
Turner's force eventually
consisted of more than 40
slaves.
In the end, the rebels had
stabbed, shot and clubbed at
least 55 white people to
death.
Nat Turner was eventually
captured
He was hanged and
beheaded
 In the hysterical
climate that
followed the
rebellion, close to
200 black people,
many of whom had
nothing to do with
the rebellion, were
murdered by white
mobs.

Effect of the Rebellion
“Slave Codes” (laws)
were tightened in the
South
 Slaves could not…

– be taught to read or
write
– meet without a white
person present
– move from place to
place freely
United States, 1848
Would the
new land won
in the war
with Mexico
become slave
states or free
states?
Compromise of 1850
The Terms of the Compromise of 1850…
 California admitted as a Free State
 Fugitive Slave Act is strengthened
 Popular Sovereignty in Utah & New Mexico
 Slave Trade is ended in Washington, D.C.
 $10 million to Texas to settle border disputes.
The Role of Henry Clay
He shaped the
Compromise and
defended it!
The Role of John C. Calhoun
He opposed the
Compromise!
The Role of Daniel Webster
He supported the
Compromise!
The Role of Stephen Douglas
He saved the
Compromise by
having each item
voted on separately!
Protest, Resistance, and Violence
Northerners Continue to Attack Slavery even after the
Compromise of 1850!
 Harriet Tubman conducts more than 300 slaves to
freedom on the Underground Railroad.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe describes the evils of slavery in
“UNCLE TOM’S CABIN”!
How had the Missouri Compromise proposed to
limit slavery?
 Forbade
slavery north of
the 36 Degree
Line in the
western
territories
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act propose to deal with
the issue of slavery?
Popular
Sovereignty!
Why did Douglas believe that popular sovereignty would solve the
problem of slavery?
It’s the most
democratic way to
decide!
Why did popular sovereignty lead to “Bleeding
Kansas”?
 Supporters from both
sides flooded into
Kansas to sway the
vote either free or
slave!
Slavery & Secession!
Dred Scott v. Sanford - 1857
Supporters?
 Proslavery forces

Reasons for support?
 Guaranteed the extension
of slavery into the west!

Douglas in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates - 1858
 Supporters?
 Proslavery = liked
popular sovereignty
 Antislavery = Freeport
Doctrine
Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates - 1858
Supporters?
 Antislavery forces

Reasons for support?
 Spoke of the immorality of
slavery


“A house divided can not
stand!”
The Raid on Harpers Ferry - 1859
Supporters?
 Antislavery forces

Reasons for support?
 Hoped that it would start a
slave revolt.

John Brown’s Hanging - 1859
Supporters?
 Proslavery forces

Reasons for support?
 John Brown was a terrorist!

The election of Lincoln - 1860
Supporters?
 Antislavery forces

Reasons for support?
 Lincoln opposed the
expansion of slavery into
the west.

The Secession of the Southern States – 1860, 1861
Supporters?
 Proslavery forces

Reasons for support?
 Support the right to leave
the union.
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