8th Grade SS Unit 7B

Underground Railroad

• Harriett Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Elihu Embree

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The North Star

• The Underground Railroad

• first African American senator

Massachusetts abolitionist who started the Liberator

• Nat Turner

• Harriett Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

Effect of Elihu Embree

• abolitionist movement spread through news publication

• women's rights movement spread

• rights of slaves spread and passed laws in the South

• religious revival movement

impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• settlers moved to Great Plains to farm

• led to transcontinental railroad

• inflamed southerners and northerners over slavery

• strengthened demand for Fugitive Slave law.

brought about the need for compromise in 1850

• conflict in the Kansas territory

• desire to end importation of slaves in the South

• argument over transcontinental railroad

• application of California for statehood as a free state

most divisive part of compromise that caused conflict in the North and South

• admission of California to the union

• the fugitive slave law

• end of slave auctions in Washington, DC

• use of popular sovereignty in the Mexican cession

Together with Senators Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina,

______________________ put together a bill addressing several heated disputes, among them the

admission of California as a state;

• Henry Clay

• Charles Sumner

• Stephen Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

Why did this happen?

• Dred Scott decision

• Bleeding Kansas remarks

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

“...as it now stands, one section has the exclusive power of controlling the government,"

How does this relate to the Compromise of 1850

• California shifted the balance in favor of free states

• popular sovereignty would bring more slaves in Mexican Cession territory

• The Fugitive Slave Law would cause more conflict

• The dispute with Texas meant an end to the transcontinental railroad.