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Build Up To War
Civil War
Slave Vs. Free States
Slave Vs. Free States
• 1819: 11 free states, 11 slave states
• Missouri applies to join the Union as a slave state
• Northerners opposed Missouri entering as a slave state
Henry clay
Missouri Compromised
• Henry Clay came up with a plan to keep a balance
• Missouri admitted as slave state
• Maine would be admitted as a free state
• Band-Aid solution
Free-Soil Party
• 1848 members of the Democrat and Whig Parties split to form the Free-Soil Party
• Goal: to keep slavery out of the Western states
• Slavery now becomes an important political issue
Whispers of War
• The Southern states began talking about seceding or breaking away from the United States
• Such an event would lead to a bloody civil war
• Civil war: A war between people of the same country
Compromise of 1850
• Copy the chart from page 465 in your textbooks
Fugitive Slave Act
• 1850 required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
• Suspects were not allowed to a jury trial
• Act was very hard for Northerners to accept
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, New England woman
• Showed the evils of slavery and the fugitive slave act
• Popular in the North• Southerners objected
to the book