Slavery: Compromise and Challenges

Slavery Compromises Part 2

This is the term that means that government power comes from the people

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What does this have to do with the causes of the Civil War? ​

Popular sovereignty

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During the civil war southern states used this term to mean that the people in each state should have the power to make decisions about slavery

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And that the federal government should not be allowed to outlaw slavery in a state​

Popular sovereignty

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Multiple Select

Which of the following TWO definitions match with the term popular sovereignty?

• The belief that the Federal government makes all laws for the states

• The belief that government power comes from the people

• The belief that slavery should be abolished in the whole country

• The rise of slavery over a period of time

• A belief that the people in a state should vote on whether to allow slavery

Multiple Choice

Why was the Compromise of 1850 necessary if the Missouri Compromise had already been passed 30 years before?

• The Missouri Compromise expired after 30 years so a new compromise needed to be made in 1850

• The South felt that they had not received enough slave states in the Missouri Compromise, so the Compromise of 1850 was made to make it a more equal balance

• The Missouri Compromise only divided up land gained in the Louisiana Purchase, and the Compromise of 1850 was put in place later when more land was gained

Multiple Choice

What land gained during westward expansion led to the need for a new Compromise in 1850?

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Territory

• Oregon Territory

• Florida

Multiple Choice

What was the first place out of this territory that applied for statehood and what did it want to become?

• Utah; wanted to be a slave state

• New Mexico; wanted to be a slave state

• California; wanted to be a free state

• Missouri; wanted to be a free state

Multiple Choice

In exchange for California being added as a free state, what did southerners demand in the Compromise of 1850?

• Utah and New Mexico be open to slavery through popular sovereignty

• Utah and New Mexico be slave states

• Utah and New Mexico be free states

• Utah be a free state and New Mexico be a slave state

Multiple Choice

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• A federal law that prohibited slavery north of California

• A federal law that allowed slavery everywhere in the U.S. 

• A federal law that required northerners to report escaped slaves

• A federal law that banned abolitionist writing in the south

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California was added as a free state

• New Mexico was added as a slave state

• Utah and New Mexico would be open to slavery through popular sovereignty

• The Fugitive Slave Act was passed

Independent Practice

Complete slides 3 and 4 on your jamboard

Multiple Choice

What was a cause for the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• The decision to build a Transcontinental Railroad through the territory

• Abolitionists desire to end the spread of slavery in these territories

• Failures of the Compromise of 1850

Multiple Choice

What was the outcome of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• Kansas and Nebraska were determined to become free states

• Kansas and Nebraska could now be open to slavery through popular sovereignty

• Kansas would become a free state and Nebraska would become a slave state

• Kansas and Nebraska both become slave states

Multiple Choice

What did the Kansas Nebraska Act overturn?

• the Compromise of 1850

• the Fugitive Slave Act

• the Constitution

• the Missouri Compromise

Independent Practice

Complete slides 5 and 6 on your jamboard

Bleeding Kansas

After the Kansas Nebraska act was passed pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to Kansas. Both sides wanted to influence the vote on whether Kansas would become a slave or free state. Tensions were high in Kansas and violence broke out between the pro and anti slavery settlers. Violence also spilled over into Congress.... at this time in 1856 the Civil War is only 5 years away