Transcript Tensions Rise Between the North & South PowerPoint

Congress debates slavery
Learning Goals:
1. Compare and contrast economic
paths of the North and the South.
2. Summarize the effects of territorial
expansion on the debate over slavery.
3. Analyze how the Compromise of 1850
fueled the debate over slavery.
4. Explain how political tensions
resulted in violence.
Explanation: Compromise is a settlement
of differences in which each side gives up
something. The United States was at the
breaking point. The issue of slavery was
dividing the North and South.
Journal Question: What are some things
that you have had to compromise over with
your friends or family? Describe a specific
situation where you have made a compromise.
1. White
Southerners
feared that the
North would
abolish slavery
when they tried
to pass the
Wilmot
Proviso.
Most white
Southerners were
poor farmers.
Think-Pair- Share
What are the differences between the
economies of the North and the South?
What led to the South having slaves as
farm workers?
Think about your answer and then turn
to a neighbor and share your thoughts.
We will share as a group.
2. In order to keep the
nation from breaking
apart, Stephen A.
Douglas supported
the Compromise of
1850. The South
liked that some
newly acquired
territories from
Mexico might allow
slavery.
Douglas
made some
groups of
people
mad.
3. Popular sovereignty describes the
belief that the people living in a
region should decide key issues.
Harriet
Beecher
Stowe’s Uncle
Tom’s Cabin
showed one of
the major
differences
between the
North and
South.
4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for the
residents of Kansas and Nebraska to vote to
decide the issue of slavery and overturned the
Missouri Compromise.
The Constitutional
Convention of the
Kansas Territory. The
Kansas-Nebraska Act
left the status of
slavery in the two
territories to
popular sovereignty
votes.
Think-Pair- Share
Sovereignty means that people have the
right to rule themselves and make laws.
Put this definition into your own words.
Explain if this right should ever be
limited.
Think about your answer and then turn
to a neighbor and share your thoughts.
We will share as a group.
5. The Kansas
Territory was
called “Bleeding
Kansas” because
an armed struggle
broke out between
proslavery and
antislavery
settlers.
6. One impact of
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin was that
white
Southerners
charged that the
book did not
portray slavery
accurately.
A lithograph of
“The Death of
Uncle Tom,” from
the book Uncle
Tom's Cabin.
Think-Pair- Share
The last slideshow explained the word
persuade. How can a book persuade
someone to do or think something?
What do you think was written in Uncle
Tom’s Cabin that persuaded the North
that slavery was bad?
Think about your answer and then turn
to a neighbor and share your thoughts.
We will share as a group.
7. The KansasNebraska Act,
Compromise of
1850, and Missouri
Compromise were
all legislative
decisions that
dealt with the
issue of slavery in
the United States.
A hotel where
African
Americans
could stay at
that was
burned down
in Kansas.
This painting depicts abolitionist John
Brown during the "Bleeding Kansas"
decade of the 1850s.
8. The economies between
the North and South
varied greatly. Pre-Civil
War industrialization of
the North was due to
increased immigration
for labor needs, the
building of railroads for
transportation needs,
and increased
population density for
growing markets.
CLOSURE ACTIVITY
Three Ws
Students discuss or write (3 Ws):
•What did we learn today?
•So What? (relevancy, importance,
usefulness)
•Now What? (how does this fit into
what we are learning?, does it affect
our thinking?)