1. Growing Tensions Between the North & South Chapter 15.1

2. Turn in Hershey Park form News Quiz! Questions about Presentations due Monday? – everyone talks, divide up, use note cards DO NOW

3. Highlight the answers to the following review questions: 1. What is the Wilmot Proviso? 2. What is the Free Soil Party Platform? 3. What prompted the Compromise of 1850? 4. What did the Compromise say? 5. What is popular sovereignty?

4. Proposed Bill: Wilmot Proviso Purpose: To outlaw slavery in any territory the US might acquire from the Mexican War South: Viewed slaves as property which is protected under the Constitution. The southern senators killed the bill – even though it does pass the House

5. “Free Soil” Party Platform How do they view slavery? Most were NOT abolitionists They ARE against the spread of slavery because they wanted those lands for white labor. What happened to the Free Soil Party? It died out when the Compromise of 1850 was signed – many join the Republican Party.

6. What led to the Compromise of 1850? California petitions to enter the Union as a FREE state, which threatened the balance of 15 free and 15 slave states. Southerners feared that more states from the Mexican Cession would want to be free.

7. The key parts of the Compromise of 1850 Parts of CompromisePro North or South? 1. California is a FREE state.North 2. New Mexico and Utah could decide for themselves: Popular Sovereignty Toss Up! 3. The slave trade in D.C. was abolished North 4. A strict Fugitive Slave Act was passed South

9. 15.2:The Crisis between North and South deepens… Read the folder on your desk and complete the corresponding activity in your packet. Complete Kansas/Nebraska Act today – use link on my website You should work at a steady pace we will finish next week and turn in the packet.

10. Slavery in 1850: True/False Quiz 1. Most white southerners owned slaves. 2. Most slaves were beaten and whipped often. 3. Most slave owners owned ten or more slaves. 4. Slaves, in general, were fed as well as working-class persons in the North. 5. The slave had more economic security than the Northern factory worker.

11. Quiz - continued 6. The life expectancy of American slaves was substantially lower than that of workers in an industrialized nation such as England. 7. The slave with the highest value at the auction block was the teenage male. 8. Male slaves earned more net income for the slave owner than female slaves. 9. Slave mothers usually had their first child at age twelve or thirteen. 10. Life expectancy in Northern industrial cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, was greater than that of a typical southern slave.