Slavery 1820-1860

US History: Spiconardi

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)

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.

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

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Abolition Should it be gradual or immediate? William Lloyd Garrison

“Radical” Abolitionist Founds The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper)

and Anti-Slavery Society Abolition Arguments

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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

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

Compromise of 1850

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 1,500 registered voters, yet 6,000 people show 6,000 people show

up to voteup to vote Two governments develop: Free and Slave

governments

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

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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