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Slavery and Compromise

Slavery and Compromise. The Missouri Compromise. The Compromise of 1850. The Kansas-Nebraska Act. Explain why agricultural growth was not increasing in the South during the early 1800 ’ s. Tobacco had ruined the soil in Virginia and North Carolina.

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Slavery and Compromise

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  1. Slavery and Compromise

  2. The Missouri Compromise

  3. The Compromise of 1850

  4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act

  5. Explain why agricultural growth was not increasing in the South during the early 1800’s. • Tobacco had ruined the soil in Virginia and North Carolina. • Rice could only be grown in the coastal regions. • Cotton cost to much to produce before the invention of the cotton gin.

  6. Describe two ways that the cotton gin changed the South’s economy and society. • The cotton gin increased the profits of cotton plantation owners. • The cotton gin increased the demand for slaves needed to plant and pick the crop. • Allowed the South to produce over 50% of the world’s cotton supply.

  7. Explain how the cotton gin helped increase the divisions between the Northern and Southern states. • The cotton gin increased the debate over slavery in new states • The increased slave population created two different societies

  8. Describe three ways that abolitionists worked to get rid of slavery. • Abolitionists made speeches and wrote books protesting slavery. • Some abolitionists allowed runaway slaves to stay at their homes. • Abolitionists started anti-slavery newspapers.

  9. Identify three leading abolitionists and the published works (books, newspapers, etc.) that they are famous for writing. • William Lloyd Garrison- The Liberator • Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Frederick Douglas- North Star

  10. Describe how Charles Fitzhugh’s Positive Good Thesis of Slavery defended slavery • Fitzhugh’s believed that whites had the responsibility to feed, clothe, and provide religious instruction to the slaves.

  11. Explain why Dred Scott believed that he should be a free man. • Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri, but moved with his master to Wisconsin, a free state. • He believed that he was free since he lived in a free state.

  12. Summarize both rulings of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case. • The Supreme Court decided that Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom because he was a slave and had no legal rights. • The Court also said that Congress had no right to stop slavery in the new territories in the West.

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