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Reading Check. Look over your reading for the next few minutes IF YOU WERE NOT HERE FRIDAY, COME SEE ME (Mr. Johnson). Put your name on the card. Number 1-6. Ready? This shouldn’t be too bad, if you did the reading! And you all did the reading right?. Question 1.
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Reading Check Look over your reading for the next few minutes IF YOU WERE NOT HERE FRIDAY, COME SEE ME (Mr. Johnson)
Put your name on the card. Number 1-6 Ready? This shouldn’t be too bad, if you did the reading! And you all did the reading right?
Question 1 • The “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” was written at the: • A) San Diego Comic Convention • B) World Anti-Slavery Convention • C) Seneca Falls Convention
Question 2: • Abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass: • A) claimed that Women’s suffrage was taking the spotlight from the Abolition movement. • B) supported and argued for a woman’s right to vote. • C) had nothing to do with women’s rights.
Question 3 • The first territory/state to give women the right to vote was: • A) Wyoming • B) Arizona • C) New York
Question 4 • The term used for educating men and women in the same school is: • A) temperance • B) suffrage • C) slavery • D) coeducation
Question 5 • Why were so many women reformers from the Quaker religion? • A) Quaker women experienced more equality in their communities. • B) Quaker women had it worse than other women and became more motivated. • C) This was part of a nation-wide campaign to market breakfast cereal. • D) It was just a coincidence.
Question 6 • Indiana was the first state to: • A) Allow for women to divorce their husband if he was an alcoholic. • B) Admit that women actually exist
Growing Pains The Road to Civil War
The Big Idea:Growing Pains As the United States expanded, the question of slavery and the future of the nation created deep divisions between North and South. SECTIONALISM- “exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country”
Remember? • Constitution: Allowed for slavery and abolished Slave trade in 1808 • Taxation and representation: The Three-Fifths Compromise
Missouri • 1819- Applies to join the Union • Population: 50,000 whites. 10,000 slaves • Proposed state constitution allows slavery.
A Problem of Balance:1819 • 11 Free States • 22 Members of the Senate are from Free States • 11 Slave States • 22 Members of the Senate are from Slave States
Missouri Compromise • Senate comes up with a compromise. • Missouri joins as a slave state. • Maine joins as a free state. • Also, try to solve the question of slavery in new lands for good. • 36 Degrees 30 minutes North line. • Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, divides the Senate bill up and gets it passed.
After the Compromise • Northern Goals- • Stop the spread of slavery • Expand a market economy to new territories • A vocal minority wish to see slavery abolished • Southern Goals- • Expand slavery into new territories • Maintain Southern way of life
1840s • Texas- Independent since 1836. • Tennessee Democrat James Polk elected in 1844. • Texas joins the Union in 1845.
The Texan Problem WAR!
Now what? • Rep. David Wilmot of Pennsylvania • “Wilmot Proviso”- No slavery in any lands that may be acquired from Mexico. • Southerners protest- The Proviso does not pass. • Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina • Congress and territorial governments have no authority to ban or regulate slavery in a territory.
Good Ol’ ‘Crazy Eyes’ Calhoun… “Crazy Eyes” in 1849
1848 Elections • Whigs choose Zachary Taylor. Southerner and war hero • Democrats run Lewis Cass of Michigan • Neither take a stand on slavery
The Free-Soil Party • Anti-Slavery Democrats AND Whigs join with the remnants of the Liberty Party. • Anti-Slavery Whigs • Anti-Slavery Democrats • Liberty Party • Free-Soil Party runs Martin Van Buren in 1848 • Party is crushed in presidential election, but gains a few seats in Congress “FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LABOR, FREE MEN!”
More Problems California- Applies for statehood in 1850 Washington D.C.- Free or Slave? Fugitive Slaves- We want our stuff back! New Mexico and Texas are not getting along. Big Problem: Any Guesses?
BALANCE in 1849 15 Free States 15 Slave States
Henry Clay to the Rescue! California will be admitted as a free state. New Mexico Territory- No Restrictions on Slavery Texas gives up some land to New Mexico Slave Trade ended in D.C. Stronger fugitive slave law
Compromise of 1850 • President Taylor threatens military action on states trying to secede. • Then he passes away. • New President- Millard Fillmore- Supports compromise • Illinois Democrat breaks Clay’s Proposal into smaller pieces • The Compromise of 1850 Passes • Each of the Five Main points become law.
Five Points California will be admitted as a free state. New Mexico Territory- No Restriction on Slavery Texas gives up some land to New Mexico Slave Trade ended in D.C. Stronger fugitive slave law
Time-Line • Let’s make a time-line! • Events- • Missouri Compromise (1820) • Wilmot Proviso (1846) • Free-Soil Party (1848) • Compromise of 1850