Results of the War with Mexico

1. Results of the War with Mexico The Trouble of the Wilmot Proviso

2. Objectives: • After today’s lesson, you will: • Define the weekly vocabulary correctly • Describe three results of the War with Mexico • Discuss the impact of slavery in national politics

3. Focus Question: “Mexico is to us the forbidden fruit . . . the penalty of eating it would be to subject our institutions to political death” - Senator John C. Calhoun, SC • What did Calhoun mean when he described Mexico as the ‘forbidden fruit’?

4. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Border set at the Rio Grande • U.S. gains New Mexico and California • U.S. pays Mexico $25 Million How is this poisonous?

5. Return of the Slavery Question • The War with Mexico reignited the debate over slavery • Should slavery be allowed in the newly conquered territory? • Threatened to overwhelm the nation

6. Dealt with through Compromise • Declaration of Independence • Clause condemning slavery removed • International slave trade temporarily barred. • Constitutional Compromise • 3/5th Compromise for counting slaves • International Slave Trade • Fugitive Slave Clause

7. Missouri Crisis of 1820 • Erupted when Missouri wished to become a state permitting slavery • Would slavery be allowed in the Louisiana Territory? • Threatened trouble in the nation

8. Missouri Compromise • Proposed by Jesse Thomas (IL) • Pushed through Congress by Henry Clay (KY) • Brought in Maine as a Free State, Missouri as a Slave State • Divided the territory along the southern border of Missouri • North of the line, slavery barred • South of the line, slavery permitted

9. Missouri Compromise

10. Mexican Cession • Would slavery be allowed in the territories? • Most of the land south of the Missouri Compromise line • Slavery was barred in Mexico • Did the U.S. go to war to expand slave territory? • The Debate threatened to split the nation

11. The Wilmot Proviso (1846) • Barred slavery in any territory gained from Mexico • Met with heavy debate in Congress • Supported by Northern congressmen • Attacked by Southern congressmen • Did not pass • Threatened to split the parties

13. Summary: • In a short, two-three sentence response, summarize today’s lesson