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Read John Brown Documents (pp. 384-391) For Monday and Bring Textbook

Read John Brown Documents (pp. 384-391) For Monday and Bring Textbook. Expansion and the Politics of Slavery. California and the Compromise of 1850. Compromise of 1850 Congressional debates over slavery Clay’s compromise Changes in the political landscape Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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Read John Brown Documents (pp. 384-391) For Monday and Bring Textbook

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  1. Read John Brown Documents (pp. 384-391) For Monday and Bring Textbook

  2. Expansion and the Politics of Slavery

  3. California and the Compromise of 1850 • Compromise of 1850 • Congressional debates over slavery • Clay’s compromise • Changes in the political landscape • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

  4. U.S. Expansion politics • Franklin Pierce Elected President, 1852 • Pierce Encourages U.S. Expansion • Filibusters • His actions increase North/South divide • Source: whitehouse.gov

  5. Popularizing Antislavery Sentiment • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe • Consequence of Stowe’s work • Autobiographies of former slaves • Frederick Douglass • Josiah Henson • Henry Bibb • Source: barnesandnoble.com

  6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act Stirs Dissent • Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) • Impact of the law on Indians • Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party • Republican Party platform

  7. Bleeding Kansas • Settlers move into Kansas • Violence in Lawrence • Pottawatomie Massacre • Caning of Senator Charles Sumner

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