Transcript The Brink of A Civil War – Day 1

The Brink of A Civil War – Day 1
• Summarize the provisions of Henry
Clay’s to Congress.
• Discuss why some people opposed the
Compromise of 1850.
Bell Work 1
Time Table
• Bell Work –
10 min.
• Note Cards –
20 min.
• Lecture Notes
– 20 min.
• Quiz Friday!
• Violet, indigo, blue and green,
yellow, orange and red; these are
the colors you have seen after the
storm has fled. What am I?
– A Rainbow
• Why did it take so long to issue
the Emancipation Proclamation?
• “I’m a great believer in luck, and I
find the harder I work the more I
have of it.”
• Thomas Jefferson
Note Cards
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Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party
Zachary Taylor
Popular Sovereignty
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Millard Fillmore
Compromise of 1850
Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska
Act.
• John Brown
• Pottawatomie
Massacre
• Dred Scott Decision
• Stephen Douglas
• Freeport Doctrine
• Jefferson Davis
• The Missouri Compromise
– Worked out by Henry Clay in 1820, admitted Missouri
as a slave state and Maine as a free state
– The agreement also banned slavery in the rest of the
Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30°
• The Great Debate
– The Missouri Compromise did not end the debate
over slavery
– Debates in Congress were so heated they would at
times reach violence
– The annexation of Texas didn’t help which permitted
slavery and disrupted the balance held between
northern and southern states
• Popular Sovereignty & The Wilmot Proviso
– With the annexation of Texas arose the question of
whether land obtained in the Mexican war would be
admitted as slave states
– Lewis Cass and Stephen Douglas proposed popular
sovereignty, that residents would vote
– David Wilmot proposed the Wilmot Proviso, that all
land acquired from Mexico would be free
• Southern states threatened to secceed if this was passed
• The Compromise of 1850
– Proposed by Henry Clay
– Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state
– Divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two
territories where slavery would be decided by popular
sovereignty
– Abolished slavery in DC
– Toughened fugitive slave laws
– Created discussion of a split to end the Union by both
northern and southern lawmakers
– President Taylor, who opposed the compromise died
suddenly; successor Millard Fillmore was in favor
– After months of debate, the Compromise of 1850
passed