1. ** In response to handout, write down the questions and answers to the following questions: - (1) How is the climate and geography between North and South different? - (2) What were the population differences between North and South? - (3) What were the economic differences between North and South?

2. Learning Targets: (1) Students will understand the economy both the North and South before the Civil War. (2) Students will analyze events that increased tension between North and South – Missouri Compromise, abolitionist movement, Mexican Cession, Compromise of 1850, publishing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “Bleeding Kansas,” the Dred Scott Decision, and John Brown’s Raid.

3. Missouri Compromise (1)Maine becomes a free state (2) Missouri becomes a slave state (3) Slavery prohibited in the rest of Missouri Territory north of 36 d. 30’ (4) Slavery allowed into Arkansas Territory south of 36 d. 30’

4. This map provides a good visual for observing the successive territories added to the United States.

5. Rising National Tensions - The Abolitionist Movement (early and mid-1800’s) - The Liberator polarizes the nation - The Impact of War with Mexico - Annexation of Texas (1845) brings war - Mexican Cession – doubles size of United States - Wilmot Proviso – proposed 1846, ‘47, & ‘48; upsets the South

6. Adding new territory always adds to tension between North and South and leads to the questions – (1) Will this new territory allow slavery? and (2) How do we maintain the balance between free and slave states?

7. - Compromise of 1850 – (1) Texas surrendered territorial claims – (2) California a free state – (3) Slavery not restricted in Mexican Cession, so “popular sovereignty” in Utah and New Mexico territories – (4) Slave trade banned in Washington D.C. – (5) Fugitive Slave Act ** Fugitive Slave Act – further polarizes the nation - Any African American can be accused - No right to testify - Federal marshals have an incentive to declare a slave Rising National Tensions, 1850’s