Politics and Slavery

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Politics and Slavery

• I. The Missouri Compromise
• 1. Missouri ready for statehood
• a. Balance of states disrupted
• -12 slave - 11 free
• 2. Solution
• a. Missouri Slave State
• b. Maine Free State
• c. Defined Louisiana Territory

www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/missouri-compro...
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II. Election of 1848

• 1. Main Question
• a. Mexican Cession Region
• -slave or free soil?
• 2. 2 existing parties avoided
• Slave Issue
• 3. Free Soil Party formed
• -No slavery in new states
• 4. Northern Whig Party formed
• -Zachary Taylor
• -Mexican War hero
• -southern slave owner

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III. The Compromise of 1850
www.sonofthesouth.net/.../westward-expansion.htm

• 1. America expanded to the Pacific
• 2. Problem
• a. New territories
• slave or free?

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III. The Compromise of 1850 Continued

• 3. Henry Clays Solution
• a. California free state
• b. Fugitive Slave Law
• -arrest any black suspected
• of being a runaway
• c. Divided Mexican Cession
• into 2 Territories
• -New Mexico (South)
• -Utah (North)
• d. Popular Sovereignty
• -People of new states vote
• on slave / free status

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IV. The Great Debate a. Calhoun, Clay
Webster
www.senate.gov/.../Painting_32_00007.htm

• -Why allow the people to decide?
• -Congress avoided the issue near election
  time
• -democratic method
• -decision based on need
• -some regions can use slaves
• -others dont need slaves
• V. Uncle Toms Cabin
• a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• -Little lady who started the big war
• b. Fictional story
• -brutal evils of slavery
• c. Increased abolition
• d. Angered many Southerners

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Questions

• 1. How did Congress try to settle the question of
  slavery
• in the new western territories?
• 2. Why did many northerners refuse to abide by
  the
• Fugitive Slave Law?
• 3. How did Harriet Beecher Stowes Novel
  contribute to
• the hostility between the North and South?