1. Date: January 22, 2015 Topic: Setting the Stage for the Civil War. Aim: How did various events come together causing the Civil War? Date: January 22, 2015 Topic: Setting the Stage for the Civil War. Aim: How did various events come together causing the Civil War? Do Now: Multiple Choice Questions.

2. According to the reading, how did the Constitution recognize and protect slavery prior to the Civil War?

3. How do the northern views differ from the southern? Who has a stronger argument? Why?

4. COMPROMISE #1 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE

5.  Slavery banned north of 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude.  Maine would be admitted as a free state.  Missouri was admitted as a slave state. Missouri Compromise (1820)

7. COMPROMISE #2 THE COMPROMISE OF 1850

8.  A.) California entered the Union as a free state.  B.) Adopt a Fugitive Slave Law and enforce it rigorously.  C.) Establish the territories of Utah and New Mexico and allow settlers in these territories to decide the slavery issue by vote, or popular sovereignty. The Compromise of 1850

9. Northern Free States = 30 Senators Southern slave states = 30 senators CALIFORNIA ENTERING WOULD UPSET THE BALANCE!

10. Why is upsetting this balance significant? The North and the South will not have equal representation in government. WHY IS THIS SIGNIFICANT? The North or the South will not be able to pass their own policies.

11. COMPROMISE OF 1850 MAP

12. COMPROMISE #3 THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

13. STEPHEN DOUGLAS

14. KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT ACT The remainder of the Louisiana Purchase will be divided into two territories – Kansas and Nebraska-and allow the people in these territories to decide on the question of slavery. The remainder of the Louisiana Purchase will be divided into two territories – Kansas and Nebraska-and allow the people in these territories to decide on the question of slavery.

15. B-BYE!

17.  Predict what happens next… Anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups rushed their supporters to Kansas.

18. PRO SLAVERY GOV’T ANTI-SLAVERY GOVERNMENT PREDICT A POSSIBLE OUTCOME FROM THIS SITUATION…

19.  Gentlemen of the slave states…I accept your challenge in …the cause of freedom. We will engage in competition for…Kansas, and God give the victory to the side which is stronger in numbers as it is in right Describe the person who would say this. William Henry Seward – NY Senator

21.  Pro and anti slavery people rushed into Kansas to vote on the issue of slavery erupting in violence.  Pro-slavery mob destroyed homes, stores, and an antislavery newspaper office in Lawrence, Kansas.  John Brown and an anti-slavery group killed pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek.  Violence erupted in the US Senate, where the southern congressmen Preston Brooks beat abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner because of remarks made in a speech. Bleeding Kansas