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Title: Debate Over Slavery


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Debate Over Slavery
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The Missouri Compromise
  • Slave and free states even in senate
  • Missouri applies to be a slave state would upset
    balance
  • Henry Clay comes up with compromise, Great
    Compromiser
  • Missouri Compromise
  • 1. Missouri enters as slave
  • 2. Maine enters as free
  • 3. Imaginary line drawn at 3630 no
    slavery above it

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Expansion of Slavery
  • Southerners want Texas to enter as slave
  • Wilmot Proviso no slavery in lands from Mexico.
  • John C. Calhoun SC, says gov. cant stop
    slavery, creates great debates

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  • Leads to sectionalism showing loyalty to one
    part of the country instead of nation
  • One idea- popular sovereignty people vote and
    decide slavery or not in the new state

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New Compromise
  • California wants to enter as free
  • South wants a strong fugitive slave law, or
    threaten to secede (breakaway) from country
  • H. Clay comes up with another deal
  • Compromise of 1850
  • 1. California enters free
  • 2. New Mexico no restrictions on slavery
  • 3. No Slave trade in DC
  • 4. Strong Fugitive Slave Law

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Fugitive Slave Act Part of the Compromise of
1850
  • 1.Law stated that northerners had to return
    runaway slaves to the south
  • 2.Helping runaways led to jail or huge fines
  • Act shows many northerners how truly bad slavery
    is
  • Bounty hunters capture slaves and free AAs for

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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
  1. Kansas/Nebraska Territories created
  2. No more 36 30 boundary for slave states
  3. Kansas/Nebraska Territories will use popular
    sovereignty

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Uncle Toms Cabin
  • Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Described slave life in detail all over the
    country, sells thousands of copies
  • Informs people about slavery leads to more
    abolitionists
  • Southerners says she doesnt know what talking
    about
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