Slavery Dominates Politics
The Republican Party Forms
-Disagreement over slavery led to the freedom of the Republican Party and heightened sectional tensions
-The creation of the Republican Party grew out of the problems caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
-Split between North and South
The Case of Dred Scott
-His owner takes him to live in the North
-Scott sued for his freedom
-Dredscott v. Sandford
-Missouri ---> Illinois ---> Wisconsin ---> Missouri
-Black as inferior unfit to associate with the white race
-Blacks are not and can't be citizens
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Notes Page Word or Phrase of the week
The word or Phrase of the Week of March 12th is:
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
THE CRISIS DEPENDS
The issue of slavery divides the counrty
-The north was against slavery and wanted to stop its spread
-the south wanted to keep slavery as a way of life. also about $$$$
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-people decide of there should be slavery in their states
-popular sovereingnty- when people decide what to do
Fugitive Slave Act
-an 1850 law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
-It was illegal to help a slave escape
-a person could be put in jail if they did
Harriet Beecher Stowe
-author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
-story about the cruelty of slavery
-encouraged many people in the north to become abolitionists
The issue of slavery divides the counrty
-The north was against slavery and wanted to stop its spread
-the south wanted to keep slavery as a way of life. also about $$$$
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-people decide of there should be slavery in their states
-popular sovereingnty- when people decide what to do
Fugitive Slave Act
-an 1850 law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
-It was illegal to help a slave escape
-a person could be put in jail if they did
Harriet Beecher Stowe
-author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
-story about the cruelty of slavery
-encouraged many people in the north to become abolitionists
GROWING TENSION BETWEEN THE NORTH & SOUTH
North & south take different paths
-In the north, the growing of industry led to the rapid growth of cities
-Railroads & canals connect east and west helping to develop strong ties with eachother
The South Developed few wealthy, planters who controlled socety
-Planters relied on cotton exports for their profit
-Southerns invested in slavery instead of industry
-"Wilmot Proxiso", it outlawed slavery in any territory taken from Mexico
The Compromise of 1850
-To please the north
-California would be a free state
-The slave trade would abolished in washington
-to please the south
-Congress would not pass law regarding slavery territories won from Mexico
-Congress would pass fugitive slave act
North & south take different paths
-In the north, the growing of industry led to the rapid growth of cities
-Railroads & canals connect east and west helping to develop strong ties with eachother
The South Developed few wealthy, planters who controlled socety
-Planters relied on cotton exports for their profit
-Southerns invested in slavery instead of industry
-"Wilmot Proxiso", it outlawed slavery in any territory taken from Mexico
The Compromise of 1850
-To please the north
-California would be a free state
-The slave trade would abolished in washington
-to please the south
-Congress would not pass law regarding slavery territories won from Mexico
-Congress would pass fugitive slave act
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