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Bell Ringer. How did the US solve the issue of slavery and admitting Missouri as a state in 1820?. Missouri Compromise. 1820. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Signed in Mexico City on February 2, 1848 Ended the US-Mexican War
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Bell Ringer • How did the US solve the issue of slavery and admitting Missouri as a state in 1820?
Missouri Compromise • 1820
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Signed in Mexico City on February 2, 1848 • Ended the US-Mexican War • Gave the US 55% of Mexico’s territory (525,000 mi2) in return for $15 million Mexican Cession
Compromise of 1850 • California admitted at a free state • Rest of Mexican Cession organized into a territory where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty • Addressed border dispute between Texas and New Mexico • End of slave trade in Washington, D.C. • A more effective Fugitive Slave Law
Fugitive Slave Act • Federal Crime to help a runaway slave. • All runaway slaves were to be returned to their owners, regardless if they were found in the North or South. • Many African-Americans, both freemen and runaways, fled to Canada. • Inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Kansas-Nebraska Act • Senator Stephen Douglas wants to settle the issue of slavery for good. • Repealed the Missouri Compromise • Formed Kansas and Nebraska Territories • Allowed them to decide on the issue of slavery using popular sovereignty.
Compromises on Slavery • Each group member will complete a map looking at the changing state of slavery in the US. • Missouri Compromise (p. 312) • Compromise of 1850 (p. 431) • Kansas-Nebraska Act (p. 431) • As a group use your maps to answer the 10 questions.
Homework • Read Chapter 16, Lesson 1 “The Search for Compromise” p. 428 - 432 • Complete the Guided Reading Worksheet • Due on Monday
Bell Ringer • How did the Compromise of 1850 solve the issue of slavery in the Mexican Cession?
Ken Burns: The West • Episode 4: Death Runs Riot • What was happening in Kansas during the spring of 1856?
Bell Ringer • What happened in Kansas during the spring of 1856?
Caning of Senator Charles Sumner On May 22, 1856 after he gave a speech in the Senate called the “Crime Against Kansas” he was caned by Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina.
Dred Scott • Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) • Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) • In your group work through: • Background Summary • Trace Dred Scott’s Travels • Classifying Arguments • And Summary of the Decision • Be ready to discuss as a whole group the Summary of the Decision’s Questions to Consider
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) • Homework • Read Chapter 16, Lesson 2: Challenges to Slavery • p. 433 – 438 • Complete the Guided Reading • Due on Friday
Bell Ringer • Why was Dred Scott’s suit for freedom dismissed by the Supreme Court?
Formation of the Republican Party • Started in the early 1850s • Anti-slavery Whigs • Northern Democrats • Free-Soilers • 1854 Congressional Elections • Republicans won control of the House of Representatives and several State Governments
Illinois 1858 Senate Race Abraham Lincoln - Republican Stephen Douglas - Democrat Born in Vermont April 23, 1813 Illinois State Senator 1836 – 1841 Judge of Supreme Court of Illinois 1841 – 1843 US House of Representatives 1843 - 1847 US Senate 1847 – present Wrote Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) • Born in Kentucky • February 12, 1809 • Illinois State Legislature from 1834 to 1837 • Became a lawyer in 1837 • US House of Representatives 1847-1849
Bell Ringer • What are Lincoln and Douglas’s beliefs on the equality of blacks and whites?
Bell Ringer • What can we learn about America in the 1850s by reading the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Election of 1860 • Complete the Guided Reading worksheet for Chapter 16, Lesson 3 (p. 439 – 442). • On the backside answer the following questions: • What did South Carolina do after Lincoln won the election of 1860? Why? • What role did the idea of states’ rights play in the outbreak of the civil war?
Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln Stephen Douglas John C. Breckinridge John Bell Republican Northern Democrat Southern Democrat Constitutional Union Ban Expansion of Slavery Popular Sovereignty Uphold Slavery No Stance on Slavery
Quest • Chapter 13, Lessons 2 & 3 and Chapter 16 • 25 points • 10 Matching • 9 Multiple Choice • 2 Short Answer (3 pts)