1. Slavery 1820-1860 US History: Spiconardi

2. Missouri Compromise (1820)  Missouri wanted to apply for statehood Missouri wanted to apply for statehood in 1817 Who would decide whether it would be a slave state or free state?  North  Congress had to decide  South  Congress had no authority to prevent the extension of slavery; Congress had to duty to protect slavery (property)

3. Missouri Compromise (1820)  Henry Clay offers a solution Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state The Maine Territory of Massachusetts would be made a free state to keep balance All future states north of Missouri’s southern border would be free, the rest slave states.

4. Nat Turner’s Rebellion Preacher from Virginia who panned revolt for several years In 1831, slaughters 60 whites (women & children included) in 48 hours  200 innocent blacks killed in retaliation Impact  Laws passed censoring abolitionist papers  Laws passed limiting black education & religious practices

5. Nat Turner’s Rebellion

6. Abolition  Should it be gradual or immediate?  William Lloyd Garrison “Radical” Abolitionist Founds The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper) and Anti-Slavery Society Abolition Arguments  ______________________________________

7. Abolition  Uncle Tom’s Cabin  Conveys the agonies faced by slave families; brought home the evils of slavery to people who never thought of it previously  Women’s Rights Seneca Falls Convention (1848)  equality and suffrage for women

8. Compromise of 1850 California applies to enter Union as a free state South angry  They will lose power in Congress Compromise  California enters as a free state  Fugitive Slave Act Required all slaves be returned to their owners  Popular Sovereignty  people living in the Mexican Cession territories would decide to be free or slave

9. Compromise of 1850

10. Kansas-Nebraska Act  Exposes the flaws of the Compromise of 1850  Missouri Compromise is ignored Kansas allowed to decide its fate via popular sovereignty Missourians cross the border into Kansas an vote 6,000 people show up to vote  1,500 registered voters, yet 6,000 people show up to vote Two governments develop: Free and Slave governments

11. Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas  Pro-slavery mobs destroy homes, stores, and an abolitionist newspaper office  John Brown leads a anti-slavery group and kills pro-slavery settlers

12. Kansas-Nebraska Act

13. Violence in the Senate Chambers  Sen. Charles Sumner (MA) speaks out against violence & insults a South Carolinian Senator Rep. Preston Brooks attacks Sen. Sumner with his cane  Sumner goes to therapy for 3 years South Carolinians send Brooks commemorative canes Violence in Congress would evolve into war