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Results of the War with Mexico The Trouble of the Wilmot Proviso

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Page 1: Results of the War with Mexico The Trouble of the Wilmot Proviso

Results of the War with Mexico

The Trouble of the Wilmot Proviso

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Objectives:

• After today’s lesson, you will:– Define the weekly vocabulary correctly– Describe three results of the War with Mexico– Discuss the impact of slavery in national politics

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Focus Question:

“Mexico is to us the forbidden fruit . . . the penalty of eating it would be to subject our institutions to political death”

- Senator John C. Calhoun, SC

• What did Calhoun mean when he described Mexico as the ‘forbidden fruit’?

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Border set at the Rio Grande• U.S. gains New Mexico and California• U.S. pays Mexico $25 Million

How is this poisonous?

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Return of the Slavery Question

• The War with Mexico reignited the debate over slavery

• Should slavery be allowed in the newly conquered territory?

• Threatened to overwhelm the nation

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Dealt with through Compromise

• Declaration of Independence– Clause condemning slavery removed– International slave trade temporarily barred.

• Constitutional Compromise– 3/5th Compromise for counting

slaves– International Slave Trade– Fugitive Slave Clause

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Missouri Crisis of 1820

• Erupted when Missouri wished to become a state permitting slavery– Would slavery be allowed in the Louisiana

Territory?– Threatened trouble in the nation

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Missouri Compromise

• Proposed by Jesse Thomas (IL)• Pushed through Congress by Henry Clay (KY)– Brought in Maine as a Free State, Missouri as a

Slave State– Divided the territory along the southern border of

Missouri• North of the line, slavery barred• South of the line, slavery permitted

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Missouri Compromise

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Mexican Cession

• Would slavery be allowed in the territories?– Most of the land south of the Missouri

Compromise line– Slavery was barred in Mexico– Did the U.S. go to war to expand slave territory?

• The Debate threatened to split the nation

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Summary:

• Ina short, two-three sentence response, summarize today’s lesson