Differences Over Slavery
- 1. Differences Over Slavery Mr. Schumaier
- 2. How did the spread of slavery become an issue? 1
- 3. Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state but this would have given slave states more power than free states. 1
- 4. What was the MISSOURI COMPROMISE? 2
- 5. A compromise that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. A line was drawn at 36 30’N. North would be free & South would be slave. 2
- 7. What was the WILMOT PROVISO? 3
- 8. A plan by David Wilmot of Pennsylvania that called for the outlaw of slavery in any land won from Mexico. House passed bill but Senate defeated it. 3
- 10. He feeling of loyalty to ones state or section instead of the whole country. 4
- 11. Describe the FREE SOIL PARTY. 5
- 12. “ Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men.” Opposed the spread of slavery into the territories. 5
- 14. What is a FUGITIVE SLAVE? 6
- 17. Describe three parts of the COMPROMISE OF 1850. 7
- 18. 1) California admitted as a free state = Free 7
- 19. 2) Rest of Mexican Cession divided into New Mexico & Utah territories. Voters would decide slaver issue by voting. 7
- 20. 3) Slave trade banned in D.C. but not between slave states. Slave Trade 7
- 21. 4) Strict fugitive slave law was passed. 7
- 22. What was the FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OF 1850? 8
- 23. All citizens had to help catch runaway slaves. Anyone who helped an escaped slave could be fined $1,000 & jailed for six months. 8
- 25. Describe the plot of UNCLE TOM’s CABIN. 9
- 26. Kind & aging slave is sold to a cruel planter. The planter badly mistreats his slaves and eventually kills Uncle Tom. 9
- 28. Describe the KANSAS-NEBRASKS ACT. 10
- 29. Stephen Douglas proposed dividing the Nebraska Territory into two states, Kansas & Nebraska. 10
- 30. The question of slavery would be decide by popular vote. Would undo the Missouri Comp because the Territory was north of 36 30’N. 10
- 31. Democrat President Franklin Pierce helped Douglas push the act through Congress. 10
- 32. Who was STEPHEN DOUGLAS? 11
- 33. Democratic Senator from Illinois. Proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act. Democratic Nominee for President in 1860 vs Lincoln 11
- 35. Both Northern Abolitionist and Southern Slave owners moved to Kansas after Kansas-Nebraska Act. By 1856 over 200 people had been killed. 12
- 38. What happened in Kansas in 1854-1856? 13
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- 40. Who was DRED SCOTT? 14
- 41. A slave who lived in Missouri, later moved to Illinois and Wisconsin where slavery was illegal. When owner died, filed suit claiming he should be free. 14
- 42. What did the DRED SCOTT DECISION say? 15
- 43. Slaves were property and slavery was legal except where a state voted to ban it 15
- 45. The End