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Reading Check

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

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  1. Reading Check Look over your reading for the next few minutes IF YOU WERE NOT HERE FRIDAY, COME SEE ME (Mr. Johnson)

  2. 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?

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. Question 3 • The first territory/state to give women the right to vote was: • A) Wyoming • B) Arizona • C) New York

  6. Question 4 • The term used for educating men and women in the same school is: • A) temperance • B) suffrage • C) slavery • D) coeducation

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. Growing Pains The Road to Civil War

  10. 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”

  11. Remember? • Constitution: Allowed for slavery and abolished Slave trade in 1808 • Taxation and representation: The Three-Fifths Compromise

  12. Missouri • 1819- Applies to join the Union • Population: 50,000 whites. 10,000 slaves • Proposed state constitution allows slavery.

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. 1840s • Texas- Independent since 1836. • Tennessee Democrat James Polk elected in 1844. • Texas joins the Union in 1845.

  17. The Texan Problem WAR!

  18. 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.

  19. Good Ol’ ‘Crazy Eyes’ Calhoun… “Crazy Eyes” in 1849

  20. 1848 Elections • Whigs choose Zachary Taylor. Southerner and war hero • Democrats run Lewis Cass of Michigan • Neither take a stand on slavery

  21. 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!”

  22. 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?

  23. BALANCE in 1849 15 Free States 15 Slave States

  24. 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

  25. Of Course, Someone had a problem….. NO!

  26. 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.

  27. 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

  28. Time-Line • Let’s make a time-line! • Events- • Missouri Compromise (1820) • Wilmot Proviso (1846) • Free-Soil Party (1848) • Compromise of 1850

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