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10- 1 : Growing Tensions Over Slavery. The admission of new states to the Union threatened to upset the balance between free states and slave states. Anticipatory Set. Remember: Both northerners & southerners hoped that the issue of slavery had been settled. California Standards.
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10-1: Growing Tensions Over Slavery The admission of new states to the Union threatened to upset the balance between free states and slave states.
Anticipatory Set Remember: Both northerners & southerners hoped that the issue of slavery had been settled.
California Standards • Social Studies Standard 8.9.4: Discuss the importance of the slavery issue as raised by the annexation of Texas and California’s admission to the union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850. • Social Studies Standard 8.9.5: Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850… • Social Studies Standard 8.10.1: Compare the conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority as emphasized in the speeches and writings of statesmen such as Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun.
Input • popular sovereignty: people in the territory or state would vote directly on issues, rather than having their elected representatives decide. • secede: withdraw • fugitive: runaway enslaved people • Henry Clay • John C. Calhoun • Daniel Webster
Research Main Idea & Details Divide your paper into 2 sections. Write down the section heading and the main idea. You will fill in the details at the end of the lesson.
Input • Slavery and the Mexican-American War • The vast territory acquired as a result of the Mexican-American War reignited the controversy over slavery. • The Wilmot Proviso: In 1846, Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania proposed that Congress ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the U.S. as a result of the Mexican – American War. • In August 1848, antislavery Whigs and Democrats formed a new party called the Free-Soil Party. It called for the territory gained in the Mexican – American War to be “free soil.” Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania Use two sections of your paper to take notes for “Texas Wins Independence”
Input • A Biter Debate • The compromise proposed by Henry Clay produced one of the greatest debates in American History. California’s admittance as a free or slave state caused controversy. Calhoun was against the compromise. He supported a constitutional amendment to protect state’s rights, or the southern secession. Daniel Webster supported Clay’s proposal. Use two sections of your paper to take notes for “Texas Wins Independence”
Input • A Biter Debate • The compromise proposed by Henry Clay produced one of the greatest debates in American History. California’s admittance as a free or slave state caused controversy. Calhoun was against the compromise. He supported a constitutional amendment to protect state’s rights, or the southern secession. Daniel Webster supported Clay’s proposal. Use two sections of your paper to take notes for “Texas Wins Independence”
Input Safari Montage Congress: The Debaters Bookmarked Section(Calhoun vs. Webster) (11 min 11 sec) Use the back of your paper to take notes on this video segment.
Research INDEPENDENT WORK Read pages 356-359 in the History textbook. Take more detailed notes based on the “big idea” concepts just introduced.
HOMEWORK CONNECTION • Complete 10-1 Section Quiz • Write a detailed SUMMARY of the section and complete the UNANSWERED QUESTIONS section of your notes. • Choose two of the remaining Depth & Complexity ICONS in your notes and explain how they relate to this section.
