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23.3 Failed Compromises Main Idea Disagreements between the North and the South, especially over the issue of slavery, led to political conflict. Why It Matters Now Regional differences can make national problems difficult to resolve.

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23.3 Failed Compromises

Main IdeaDisagreements between the North and the South, especially over the issue of slavery, led to political conflict.

Why It Matters NowRegional differences can make national problems difficult to resolve.

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CA. Standards

• 8.9.4 Discuss the importance of the slave issue as raised by the annexation of Texas and California’s admission to the union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.

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• 8.9.5 Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

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Daily Guided Questions

1. How did the admission of new states to the Union fuel the debate over slavery and states’ rights?

2. What was the Compromise of 1850 and its different parts?

3. Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act fail?

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Missouri Compromise, 1820

• Missouri wanted to become a slave state.• Northern states worried that the

south would have too much power in Congress and spread of slavery west.

-Henry Clay was a senator who persuaded Congress to approve the Missouri Compromise.

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• Preserved balance between slave and free states.

-Maine: Free, Missouri: Slave.-South of 36*30’ line allows slavery

to be legal.-Allowed slave owners to pursue

escaped fugitive slaves into “Free regions.”

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Slavery Moves West

• Texas settlers bring slaves for cotton production.

• After the Mexican-American War, southerners hope to push slavery into gained territories.

• Abolitionist and Northern congressmen want slavery to halt or stay only where it is at.

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Wilmot Proviso• No slavery in territory gained from Mexico.• North

-Wants to end the spread of slavery.-Slave terr. adds slave states.-No jobs for free workers.

• South-Slaves are property protected by the Constitution.-Fears more free states.

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Free-Soil Party

• Opposes spread of slavery into territories.-Not abolitionist.-Worried about white wage-based labor.

• Made up of Democrats and Whigs.• Ex-president Martin Van Buren was their

candidate for the 1848 election.• Lost election to Zachary Taylor.

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Reflect and Share• Take a minute to answer the first

DGQ.• Then share the answer with your

partner.• Add/Change your answer.1. How did the admission of new states to the Union fuel the debate over slavery and states’ rights?

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California Annexation • Backed by President

Taylor.• Statehood would upset

balance between free and slave votes in congress.

-South threaten to secede.• Henry Clay of Kentucky

proposes compromise to save Union.

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Henry’s Compromise• CA. becomes a free State• Fugitive Slave Law• Popular Sovereignty- New Mexico and

Utah territories vote for slavery or not.• Government pays Texas $10 mil. for

eastern New Mexico.• Slave trade banned in Washington D.C.

-Allows slavery

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Debate over Compromise• North• Daniel Webster• Asked for

compromise to preserve Union.

• South• John C. Calhoun• Annexation of CA.

would threaten Southern way of life.

• Demanded constitutional amendment to protect states’ rights.

• Or would Secede.

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Webster Calhoun

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Compromise of 1850

• To please the North • Statehood of CA.• Banned slave trade in

D.C.• Popular sovereignty

• To please the South• Popular sovereignty will

decide slavery issue in territories.

• Allowed slavery in D.C.• Congress could not

regulate slave trade between slave states

• Fugitive slave law.

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Effective throughout the country.-Slave catchers roamed throughout the North.

• Government officials ordered to arrest accused runaway slaves.

• No warrants, accused denied jury trials.• Federal commissioners paid more for returning

than freeing accused.• Northerners required to assist in capture. -Fined and imprisonment if assisted fugitives.

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Reflect and Share• Take a minute to answer the second

DGQ.• Then share the answer with your

partner.• Add/Change your answer.2. What was the Compromise of 1850 and its different parts?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

• Senator Stephen Douglas pushed the bill.-Repeals Missouri Compromise.

• Created Kansas and Nebraska Territories.-Lay north of Missouri Compromise line.-Would be free states, angered South.

• Popular Sovereignty- residents would decide the issue.

• Passed, but angered many.

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Bleeding Kansas• Thousands pour into territory.

-Antislavery and proslavery.• 1855, elections held.

-pro-slavery “border ruffians” vote illegally.-Two governments.

• Lawrence, KS.-800 pro-slavery posse burn and loot town.

• Pottawatomie Massacre.-John Brown and followers kill 5.

• Incidents kill over 200.

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Reflect and Share• Take a minute to answer the third

DGQ.• Then share the answer with your

partner.• Add/Change your answer.3. Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act fail?

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Violence in Senate

• Senator Charles Sumner verbally attacks slavery.• Congressman Preston S. Brooks

beats Sumner for insults to uncle.• Southerners applaud Brooks;

Northerners condemn him.

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Study Guide pg. 162

• Copy and complete the study guide on the failed compromises of the 1850’s.• Study guide pg. 162 & textbook

pg. 362-367.