PPT-Section 15.3: Slavery Dominates Politics

Todays Essential Question How did slavery dominate national events after 1855 Vocabulary Republican Party political party formed in 1854 to oppose slavery unconstitutional illegal because it violates the . Resistance to Slavery Divides the Nation. Abolitionists, both black and white, fight against the continuance of slavery. This struggle will ultimately disunite the USA.. Quick Review of Ch. 8 - 9. In what ways did both blacks and whites support the abolition movement?. 10.1 - The Divisive Politics of Slavery. The Decisive Politics of Slavery. Main Idea. Essential Question. What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850? Why didn’t they resolve the debate on slavery?. 10.1. Industry in the North. 1850’s –more than 20,000 miles of track laid. Cities transformed over night. Many immigrants came. Strongly opposed to slavery. Agriculture in the South. 1850 . 1/3 of the nations population was in the South. 15.3: . Slavery Dominates Politics. Today’s Essential Question: How did slavery dominate national events after 1855?. Vocabulary . Republican . Party. – political party formed in 1854 to oppose slavery. Chapter 4. Slavery divides the nation. North and South enter a long and destructive civil war that ends slavery. African Americans briefly enjoy full civil rights, but new laws discriminate against them.. Chapter 10-1. 1820 Missouri Compromise: attempt to maintain balance of power of North and South. Maine = free state. Missouri = slave state. Above 36. °30’ . = free state. Below . 36°30’ . = slave state. The Divide Deepens:. 1854-1861. Remember . . . . Missouri Compromise – 1820 – provided for the number of free and slave states to be equal.. Compromise of 1850 – At that time, Missouri was considered the northernmost boundary for slavery . . . . By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln makes slavery the focus of the war. . NEXT. I. Britain Remains Neutral. A. Britain Pursues Its Own Interests. Britain has cotton inventory, new sources; does not need South. The Decisive Politics of Slavery. Main Idea. The issue of slavery dominated every area of US politics in the 1850s, forcing the government into a gridlock. Essential Question. Why was the issue of slavery so difficult to resolve?. - Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass. “I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.” . The . Dred. Scott decision interpreted the Constitution as allowing ___________________. . The Fourteenth Amendment _________________. . The Twenty-Fourth Amendment ended ________. . What group pushed for the Nineteenth Amendment? _____________________. Slavery & the Constitution Failure at the Convention Choose one of the following and respond in writing: “Maintaining slavery is like holding a wolf by the ears. You don’t like it, but you dare not let it go.” Chapter 8 section 3 “The Anti-Slavery Movement” Review 1. Boston publisher of an anti-slavery paper William Lloyd Garrison 2. Term for a former slave Freedman 3. Slave who led a revolt Nat Turner Birth of the Republican Party, 1854. Northern Whigs.. Northern Democrats.. Free-. Soilers. .. Know-Nothings. . . (Political party from 1854-1856 who was against Germans and Irish Catholic immigrants who they felt were ruining America).