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The Missouri Compromise: Balancing Slavery & Freedom

Dive into the historic Missouri Compromise of 1820, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Abolition debates, Uncle Tom's Cabin impact, and the tumultuous Kansas-Nebraska Act, revealing the struggle for balance between slavery and freedom in 19th century America.

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The Missouri Compromise: Balancing Slavery & Freedom

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  1. Slavery 1820-1860 US History: Spiconardi

  2. 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)

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. Nat Turner’s Rebellion

  6. Abolition • Should it be gradual or immediate? • William Lloyd Garrison • “Radical” Abolitionist • Founds The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper) and Anti-Slavery Society • Abolition Arguments • ______________________________________ • ______________________________________ • ______________________________________

  7. 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 Abolition

  8. 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

  9. Compromise of 1850

  10. 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 up to vote • Two governments develop: Free and Slave governments

  11. 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

  12. Kansas-Nebraska Act

  13. 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

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