1. Divisive Politics of Slavery
How do the North & South differ on Slavery?

2. Life in the Antebellum South
Agricultural w/ slow industrialization and poor transportation
2. See slavery as a way of life that must continue
Life in Northern States
Primarily manufacturing, fully industrialized, great transp.
2. Abolitionists want to see an end to slavery

3. Video/discuss: What are consequences of the new law?
Another Compromise
How to deal with new states that don’t work with 36/30 line?
Henry Clay proposes Compromise of 1850
1) California will be a free state, New Mexico (below 36/30) & Utah (above 36/30) can vote on slavery (popular sovereignty)
2) Stronger fugitive slave laws will be written
Video/discuss: What are consequences of the new law?

4. Fighting Against Slavery
Virginian slave Nat Turner rebels against slave owners, escapes but is later caught (inspires others to rebel)
John Brown tries to raid weapons depot at Harper’s Ferry
Many slaves escape south via a network of escape routes called Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman leads “conductors”
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin exposed horrors of slavery and its not just a political issue, but also a moral issue

5. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) will allow popular sovereignty on slavery in each (despite being above 36/30)
Northerners and southerners race to settle the new territories
Video/Discuss: What is happening in Kansas?

6. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Slave named Dred Scott argues that he & his owner lived in free territories and therefore had been illegally enslaved
Supreme Court ruled against Scott saying he was “property,” which is protected by 5th Amendment

7. Lincoln vs. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln of new Republican Party defeats Democrat Stephen Douglas in Illinois Senate
Lincoln runs on Abolitionist platform, two years later wins Presidency
Lincoln says he will allow slavery to continue but will not allow its expansion into new states, South threatens to secede from the union