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who supports and who opposes slavery. Teach and discuss the debate over slavery. Mason Wilfert Mackena Koss 3/15/09 Period 6. Table of content. States Rights doctrine Compromise of 1820 Wilmot Proviso of 1846 Compromise of 1850 Annexation of Texas and California as states.
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who supports and who opposes slavery Teach and discuss the debate over slavery Mason Wilfert Mackena Koss 3/15/09 Period 6
Table of content • States Rights doctrine • Compromise of 1820 • Wilmot Proviso of 1846 • Compromise of 1850 • Annexation of Texas and California as states • Based on tenth Amendment to the constitution • Agreement proposed by Henry Clay • Proposal to outlaw slavery in the new territory • Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state • Help solve the balance of free states and slave states
States Rights doctrine • State power greater than federal • Ability to reject federal law • Created by John C. Calhoun
Compromise of 1820 • video • To the point • On topic • How it effected slavery
Compromise of 1850 • California=free state • No slave trade in the capitol • Mexican Cession=popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850 • What it was • Tried resolving territorial issues • many links toward details • website
Wilmot Proviso of 1846 • Tried to outlaw slavery • Was not passed • Considered one of the first events
Annexation of California and Texas • Texas became slave state • California became free state • Had to stay equal • Texas ideal place for slavery • Last frontier of slavery • Most Californians opposed slavery
Citations • History text book 3/15/09 • Googleimages 3/15/09 • http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/.../HD_wilmotD.jpg 3/15/09 • http://Americanhistorysuite101.com 3/15/09 • http://PBS.org/wilmotproviso/.org 3/15/09 • www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/caladmit.html 3/15/09 • http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/yps1.html 3/15/09