Compromise and Conflict

Compromise and Conflict

Slavery in the United States

Review: Slavery in the United States

• Slavery has been in the United Since the early settlers

• After the American Revolution, most northern states abolished slavery

• The southern states relied heavily on slavery to produce cotton

• The cotton gin made it easier to pick cotton so more slaves were needed to keep up with demand.

• in 1790 there were 700000 slaves. By 1860 there were 4 million slaves

Review: Slavery in the United States

• Nat Turner, a slave, led a rebellion against slave owners.

• The rebellion was unsuccessful and led to stricter laws regarding free and enslaved blacks.

• The North and South shared very conflicting views on slavery

• The North paid employees to work in factories while South had slaves work for free. Two very different economies

• Tariff's were passed so more people would by American made products however this caused cotton prices and production costs to go up.

Review: Slavery in the United States

• The tariffs angered many in the South

• John C. Calhoun argued that the Federal Government, according to the constitution, can NOT make the final decision on laws.

• He said that individual states could govern themselves and veto federal laws

• This idea was known as states' rights. The states have the right to make and veto laws

• This and other disagreements led to sectionalism- loyalty to a part of the country as opposed to the entire country

Multiple Choice

After the Revolutionary War ...

• slavery was officially over in the U.S.

• The South wanted to outlaw slavery

• The North began to outlaw slavery

• no impact at this time

Multiple Choice

How did cotton relate to slavery?

• The desire to grow more cotton led to increased slavery
• It did not relate to slavery
• All slaves were required to grow cotton
• Cotton was traded for slaves in Africa

Multiple Choice

Because of the Cotton Gin:

• Slavery was abolished
• Tobacco prices fell
• The demand for slaves went up
• The demand for cotton went down

Multiple Choice

The majority of slaves in the United States produced:

• Sugar
• Cotton
• Corn
• Wheat

Multiple Choice

Nat Turner was know for ...

• his book

• his newspaper

• being a slaver holder

• leading a slave revolt

Multiple Choice

How did Southern states respond to slave rebellions?

• They gave slaves some freedom.

• They passed even stricter slave codes and said that slavery was the ONLY way to control slaves.

• They began to understand that slavery was wrong.

• They refused to take slaves back when they were captured.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a true statement?

• The North was not involved in slavery at all
• Northern factories depended on Southern cotton
• There were as many slaves in the North as there were in the South
• All of these are true

Multiple Choice

A tariff (tax) on imported goods made them

• less expensive

• more scarce (rare)

• more expensive

Multiple Choice

States' Rights can BEST be defined as the belief that states

• could leave the Union at any time if they chose to.

• could maintain slavery if their population wished to.

• could ignore national laws if they were harmful to the state.

• could force the national government to turn over all national government property to the states.

Multiple Choice

Someone who believed in states' rights would probably support which statement?

• National laws always take precedence over state laws.

• The national government has no right to tell states how to operate.

• States could only pass legislation on issues set out in the U.S. Constitution.

• Disputes between states should always be settled by the national government.

The Spread of Slavery

Would Slavery Spread

• Throughout the 1800's the United States continued to get more land and kept growing

• Families kept settling west and congress had government in place for these new regions

• When more people settled in a region, it became a territory. When that territory's population grew it became a state.

• Congress had to decide if slavery would be allowed in these new states.

• If a state allowed slavery they were slave states. If it did not allow slavery it was a free state

Multiple Choice

What is the order followed to become a state

• territory, region, state

• state, region, territory

• region, territory, state

Multiple Choice

A state that allowed slavery was a

• free state

• slave state

Multiple Choice

States where slavery was illegal were______

• slave states

• free states

Multiple Choice

_______ had to decide which states/territories would be free states and which would be slave states

• The President

• Congress

• British Parliament

Compromise in Congress

• The northern states wanted more free states and more representatives in congress to end slavery. The south wanted the opposite- More slave states and slavery.

• Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state. (Union is another word for USA)

• Missouri Compromise- let Missouri join as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

• The congress also "drew" a line across the country. North of the line was free and south of the line permitted slavery.

Multiple Choice

Another word for United States of America was_______

• 'Merica

• Union

• Confederacy

Multiple Choice

The North wanted more free states and more__________ to help stop slavery

• land

• representatives in congress

Multiple Select

The Missouri Compromise did what?

• made Missouri a slave state

• made Maine a free state

• drew a line that showed where slavery was allowed and illegal

• made the Mississippi river longer

compromise in congress

• The slavery debate continues....

• The compromise of 1850 allowed territories to decide for themselves if it would be free or slave state.

• States/people making political decisions for themselves became knows as popular sovereignty

Multiple Choice

The compromise of 1850 gave_________

• $1,850 stimulus checks to everyone

• popular sovereignty to the territories

Multiple Choice

Popular Sovereignty__________

• let territories make political decisions for themselves

• was whoever had the most friends at that moment.

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

• In 1854 congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This gave popular sovereignty to both.

• This was unpopular because it gave the option to states above the line drawn in the Missouri compromise

• Abolitionists and settlers supporting slavery flooded into Kansas to try to win the vote.

• The abolitionists won and in 1861 Kansas joined the union as a free state

Multiple Choice

The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave

• each territory popular sovereignty

• no choice in whether to be a free or slave state

Multiple Choice

Pro slavery and anti slavery settlers rushed to Kansas to

• vote on the slave state issue

• get some good cheap land

• rename the state

Multiple Choice

In 1861, Kansas joined the union as a________

• free state

• slave state