Chapter 15.1 and 15.2 Notes

Alexis de Tocqueville

*Witnessed the difference between the North and South while traveling down the Ohio River

*He felt slavery was the reason for the differences

NorthPopulation growth

Jobs and industry

Many immigrants settled in Northern cities

Northern workers and immigrants felt that slavery was an economic threat,

SouthRather than investing in industry/factories, planters invested in slaves and earned a lot of money from their plantations.

Most Southern white people were poor farmers who owned no slaves.

Wealthy planters were few in number, but they had most of the economic and political control in the South

Compromise of 1850

Abolished the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

California would be admitted into the Union as a free state.

No slave laws for the rest of the territories won from Mexico

Tougher runaway slave laws

Fugitive Slave ActRequired Northerners to help recapture runaway slaves.

Stated people who helped runaway slaves escape would be put in jail.

Kansas-Nebraska ActDid away with the Missouri Compromise as it allowed the slavery issue in the territories to be determined by popular sovereignty (voting.)

John Brown*captured and later executed, becoming a famous symbol of the abolition movement

*intended to arm slaves to fight for their freedom

Uncle Tom’s CabinWritten by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the country the terrible cruelties of slavery.

The caning of Charles Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts resulted in

  1. “Bleeding Kansas” and “Bleeding Sumner” was shouted by antislavery Northerners who formed the Republican Party
  2. Preston Brooks was sentenced to a long prison term after being convicted of the attempted murder of Charles Sumner.
  3. Southerners sending many notes of apology to Charles Sumner, and asked for such violence to stop.
  4. all of the above.

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln’s stated

  1. he did not support abolishing slavery where it already existed.
  2. he did not support slavery spreading into the territories.
  3. slavery was a moral, a social, and a political wrong.
  4. all of the above.

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas stated the best way to settle the issue of slavery was

  1. to allow Congress to settle the matter.
  2. to allow residents of state or territory to vote on the issue.
  3. to have the Supreme Ct. make the final decision.
  4. all of the above