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GROWING TENSIONS

GROWING TENSIONS. North begins to rely on industry and commerce and the South starts to rely on plantations and agriculture. North - Industry. South- Agriculture. Major export of the South is cotton. Cotton plant. South invests in slave labor, not industry.

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GROWING TENSIONS

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  1. GROWING TENSIONS

  2. North begins to rely on industry and commerce and the South starts to rely on plantations and agriculture North - Industry South- Agriculture

  3. Major export of the South is cotton Cotton plant South invests in slave labor, not industry

  4. Most Southerners do not own slaves and resent the rich slave owners

  5. Many Northern workers and immigrants opposed slavery because it took away jobs and was an economic threat to them

  6. Many in the North who considered themselves abolitionists were still racists RACIST – having prejudice based on race

  7. Slave owners defended the owning of slaves by saying they were actually helping the African Americans by giving them shelter, food and religion

  8. WILMOT PROVISO – a bill to outlaw any slavery in land obtained from the war with Mexico

  9. It passed in the House of Representatives but not the Senate Created a new political party called the FREE SOIL PARTY

  10. California wants to enter as a free state – this would upset the balance of power between free and slave FREE STATES SLAVE STATES

  11. COMPROMISE OF 1850 – a plan offered by Henry Clay, a senator from Kentucky Henry Clay

  12. Compromise of 1850: • California enters as a free state and slave trade is abolished in Washington D.C. = FREE

  13. Compromise of 1850: 2) Congress agrees to not pass any laws about banning slavery in areas received in the Mexican War and pass tougher fugitive slaves laws

  14. SLAVERY IN 1860 http://civilwar.gatech.edu/histgis/image2a.jpg

  15. DANIEL WEBSTER – Senator from Massachusetts who supports theCompromise of 1850 Daniel Webster

  16. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS – Senator from Illinois, was in charge of passing the Compromise of 1850 Stephen A Douglas

  17. COMPROMISE OF 1850 – a temporary solution to the free state / slave state debate as the nation grew

  18. THE END

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