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Important!!. Be ready to present your reformer tomorrow!! Place Powerpoint file in Berger Folder in the Student Share Written Requirement due tomorrow Questions typed Works Cited Copy of Powerpoint Presentation. Homework for Tonight. Finish the 6 questions on the Reformers Packet

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  1. Important!! • Be ready to present your reformer tomorrow!! • Place Powerpoint file in Berger Folder in the Student Share • Written Requirement due tomorrow • Questions typed • Works Cited • Copy of Powerpoint Presentation

  2. Homework for Tonight • Finish the 6 questions on the Reformers Packet • You can print a copy from the calendar

  3. The Antebellum Period

  4. Manifest Destiny • Manifest Destiny was the idea that America was destined to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.

  5. Homework for Tonight • Finish Works Cited and bring a printed copy for Monday • Should include: • 1 primary source • 1 secondary source • 2-4 other online sources

  6. Essential Question: In what ways did slavery and states' rights come to dominate national politics? Slavery, Politics, and Abolitionism

  7. Compromise of 1850

  8. What are the terms sir? • Compromise of 1850 • California is admitted as a free state • Fugitive Slave Act • Utah Act • Texas and New Mexico Act

  9. Fugitive Slave Act(controversial) • Fugitive Slave Act- made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves • Allowed for the arrest of slaves where slavery was illegal • Accused slaves would have to prove… • An Indiana man turned over after 19 years… • The North becomes increasingly angry

  10. Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel that angered white Southerners • She told stories about slavery’s horrors and cruelty • Southerners accused her of lying

  11. Kansas Nebraska Act • Initial purpose was to create a new railroad to the Pacific Ocean • Territories had to become official states first…Douglas turns to the Compromise of 1850 • Issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska was settled by popular sovereignty (people have the power)

  12. Rise of the Republican Party • Republican Party-antislavery members of several other parties joined forces

  13. America’s First Terrorist or National Hero? • John Brown leads a slave revolt • Raids Harper’s Ferry, a U.S. arsenal, to seize guns • “Talk! Talk! Talk! That will never free the slaves. What is needed is action.”

  14. Dred Scott Decision • Dred Scott sued for his freedom because he lived on free soil during much of the 1830s • Decision: Scott could not sue because he was black and not a citizen • Angers northerners and creates a further divide between North and South • 1868-Overturned by 14th Amendment

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