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- 1. Unit 1- Slavery and the Nation Divided
- 3. Differences Between the North and the South North South
- 4. Differences Between the North and the South North South Urban Industrial Railroads Factories Many Immigrants No Slavery
- 5. Differences Between the North and the South North South Urban Industrial Railroads Factories Many Immigrants No Slavery Rural Agricultural based “King Cotton” Little industry Few Railroads Few Immigrants Slavery - Southerners feared the loss of slavery would mean loss of culture
- 6. I. SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES The issue of whether slavery in California and the West would be legal led to heated debates in Congress Gold rush led to application for statehood for California (1849) CALIFORNIA BECAME A STATE IN 1850
- 7. II. COMPROMISE OF 1850 Southerners threatened secession, the formal withdraw from the Union, over the issue Henry Clay worked a Compromise For the North: California would be admitted as free state, sale of slaves banned in Washington D.C. CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE
- 8. For the South: A more effective fugitive slave law Residents of New Mexico & Utah would vote themselves- ”popular sovereignty”
- 10. III. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW (ACT) Runaway slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury Anyone helping a slave escape was jailed for 6 months and fined $1,000 Northerners were upset and often helped hide fugitive slaves; some states passed personal liberty laws that guaranteed slaves a fair trial
- 11. IV. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Network of white and African-American abolitionists that risked their safety to help slaves escape “Conductors” hid fugitives and directed them to the next “station”
- 13. V. Harriet Tubman Famous “Conductor” that escaped slavery and vowed to help others do the same She made 19 trips back to South and freed over 300 slaves (Including her own parents)