Build Up To War

Civil War

Slave Vs. Free States

Slave Vs. Free States

• 1819: 11 free states, 11 slave states

• Missouri applies to join the Union as a slave state

• Northerners opposed Missouri entering as a slave state

Henry clay

Missouri Compromised

• Henry Clay came up with a plan to keep a balance

• Missouri admitted as slave state

• Maine would be admitted as a free state

• Band-Aid solution

Free-Soil Party

• 1848 members of the Democrat and Whig Parties split to form the Free-Soil Party

• Goal: to keep slavery out of the Western states

• Slavery now becomes an important political issue

Whispers of War

• The Southern states began talking about seceding or breaking away from the United States

• Such an event would lead to a bloody civil war

• Civil war: A war between people of the same country

Compromise of 1850

• Copy the chart from page 465 in your textbooks

Fugitive Slave Act

• 1850 required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves

• Suspects were not allowed to a jury trial

• Act was very hard for Northerners to accept

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe, New England woman

• Showed the evils of slavery and the fugitive slave act

• Popular in the North• Southerners objected

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