1. Reflect back on Unit 5. Identify territories that the US acquired.
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Reflect back on Unit 5. Identify territories that the US acquired.
Northerners don’t want slavery permitted in these new territories, but Southerners do. How can we determine which territories should have slavery or not?

2. US Map
Create a list of states by numbering your map and making a list of states that corresponds to the map. You should do this for all 50 states.
Mark which states you know from prior knowledge (think back to the map activity last week) that are Northern or Southern states.

3. III. Sectionalism from Manifest Destiny

4. A. Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise (1820): Addressed the issue of slavery in new states.
Problem: Needed to determine whether new states would be slave states or free states.
Why is this a major issue?
Admitted ________ as a slave state and ________ as a free state.
Also created a boundary line: where was it?
Why might this line not work?

5. B. Compromise of 1850
California applied to join the Union as a free state.
Where did this territory come from?
Why is this a problem?
Wilmot Proviso - proposal in Congress that any territory gained in a war with Mexico should be closed to slavery, but fails.
If it failed, then why is this important?

6. B. Compromise of 1850 Henry Clay’s compromise
Four parts – the North got:
California as a ________________
Ended the ____________________ in Washington, DC
The South got:
Fugitive Slave Act
What is this?
No more interference with the slave trade

7. C. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Championed by Stephen Douglas to territory in present day Nebraska.
Established popular sovereignty:
Allow each state to decide whether to have slavery or not.
How?
Reversed the Missouri Compromise.
Took blame off federal government – now the people decide.

8. D. Bleeding Kansas
Had popular sovereignty to decide whether Kansas would be a slave or free state.
Why could Kansas decide?
Result: People from both sides of the argument rushed in to settle in Kansas so they could vote for their side.
Fight broke out – about 200 people died and lots of property destruction.

9. Guided Practice
Make a graphic organizer that explains how the U.S. tried to solve the problem of slavery.
Slavery and Territorial Expansion
1820
1850
1854
Law Passed
Main Ideas
Results

10. Exit Ticket
1)According to the principle of popular sovereignty, a. Congress would determine whether a territory would have slavery. b. Territorial legislatures would determine whether a territory would have slavery. c. Settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery. d. The Supreme Court would determine whether a territory would have slavery.

11. Exit Ticket
2) Why would Southern planters oppose the Wilmot Proviso? A. It would prevent plantation owners from moving slaves to land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. B. It would legalize slavery everywhere except in the Mexican Cession Territory. C. It would abolish slavery in territory acquired during the Mexican War. D. It would only allow slavery below the Missouri Compromise line.

12. Exit Ticket
3) How did Manifest Destiny contribute to sectionalism in the United States?