Sectionalism

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IF YOU WERE NOT HERE FRIDAY, COME SEE ME (Mr. Johnson)Put your name on the card. Number 1-6Ready?

This shouldnt be too bad, if you did the reading!

And you all did the reading right?Question 1The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was written at the:A) San Diego Comic ConventionB) World Anti-Slavery ConventionC) Seneca Falls Convention

Question 2:Abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass:A) claimed that Womens suffrage was taking the spotlight from the Abolition movement.B) supported and argued for a womans right to vote.C) had nothing to do with womens rights.Question 3The first territory/state to give women the right to vote was:A) WyomingB) ArizonaC) New YorkQuestion 4The term used for educating men and women in the same school is:A) temperanceB) suffrageC) slaveryD) coeducation

Question 5Why were so many women reformers from the Quaker religion?A) Quaker women experienced more equality in their communities.B) Quaker women had it worse than other women and became more motivated.C) This was part of a nation-wide campaign to market breakfast cereal.D) It was just a coincidence.Question 6Indiana was the first state to:A) Allow for women to divorce their husband if he was an alcoholic.B) Admit that women actually exist

Growing PainsThe Road to Civil War

The Big Idea:Growing PainsAs the United States expanded, the question of slavery and the future of the nation created deep divisions between North and South.

SECTIONALISM- exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the countryRemember?

Constitution: Allowed for slavery and abolished Slave trade in 1808Taxation and representation: The Three-Fifths CompromiseMissouri

1819- Applies to join the UnionPopulation: 50,000 whites. 10,000 slavesProposed state constitution allows slavery.A Problem of Balance:181911 Free States

22 Members of the Senate are from Free States11 Slave States

22 Members of the Senate are from Slave States

Missouri CompromiseSenate comes up with a compromise.Missouri joins as a slave state.Maine joins as a free state.Also, try to solve the question of slavery in new lands for good.36 Degrees 30 minutes North line.

Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, divides the Senate bill up and gets it passed.

After the CompromiseNorthern Goals-Stop the spread of slaveryExpand a market economy to new territories A vocal minority wish to see slavery abolishedSouthern Goals-Expand slavery into new territoriesMaintain Southern way of life

1840sTexas- Independent since 1836.Tennessee Democrat James Polk elected in 1844.Texas joins the Union in 1845.

The Texan Problem

WAR!Now what?Rep. David Wilmot of PennsylvaniaWilmot Proviso- No slavery in any lands that may be acquired from Mexico.Southerners protest- The Proviso does not pass.

Senator John C. Calhoun of South CarolinaCongress and territorial governments have no authority to ban or regulate slavery in a territory.Good Ol Crazy Eyes Calhoun

Crazy Eyes in 18491848 ElectionsWhigs choose Zachary Taylor. Southerner and war hero

Democrats run Lewis Cass of Michigan

Neither take a stand on slaveryThe Free-Soil PartyAnti-Slavery Democrats AND Whigs join with the remnants of the Liberty Party.Anti-Slavery WhigsAnti-Slavery DemocratsLiberty Party

Free-Soil Party runs Martin Van Buren in 1848

Party is crushed in presidential election, but gains a few seats in CongressFREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LABOR, FREE MEN!More ProblemsCalifornia- Applies for statehood in 1850Washington D.C.- Free or Slave?Fugitive Slaves- We want our stuff back!New Mexico and Texas are not getting along.

Big Problem: Any Guesses?BALANCE in 1849

15 Slave States15 FreeStatesHenry Clay to the Rescue!California will be admitted as a free state.New Mexico Territory- No Restrictions on SlaveryTexas gives up some land to New MexicoSlave Trade ended in D.C.Stronger fugitive slave lawOf Course, Someone had a problem..

NO!Compromise of 1850President Taylor threatens military action on states trying to secede.Then he passes away.New President- Millard Fillmore- Supports compromiseIllinois Democrat breaks Clays Proposal into smaller piecesThe Compromise of 1850 PassesEach of the Five Main points become law.Five Points California will be admitted as a free state.New Mexico Territory- No Restriction on SlaveryTexas gives up some land to New MexicoSlave Trade ended in D.C.Stronger fugitive slave law

Time-LineLets make a time-line!

Events-Missouri Compromise (1820)Wilmot Proviso (1846)Free-Soil Party (1848)Compromise of 1850