To Secede or Not to Secede

After the Louisiana Purchase (1803), both the North and South wanted the acquired western land to benefit their sectional interests.

Northern Goals
Continue to develop manufacturing jobs and trade, which do not depend on enslaved workers.
Pass laws to promote trade and growth of factories.
Make sure new Western votes in Congress are for Northern interests by not allowing slavery in the new territory. / Southern Goals
Expand agriculture- cotton and other crops- which do depend on enslaved workers.
Pass laws to protect slavery and growth of agriculture.
Make sure new Western votes in Congress are for Southern. interests by not allowing slavery in the new territory.

Why do you think Congress made compromises throughout the 1800s to try to appease both the North and the South?

Keep peace, balance both sides

And to keep the country together.

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Compromises made to appease the North & the South

Northwest Ordinance, 1787:
-Congress created The Northwest Territory which allowed no slaves
-Little Southern Protest.
Missouri Compromise, 1820:
- Missouri applied to statehood.
-Maine was a free state and Missouri was a slave state
-Southern boundary stated that above was free and below was slave states.
Compromise of 1850:
-  A series of laws that was attempted to resolved conflict between northern and southern states.
-  California was free
-  New Mexico and Utah got to choose
-  The slave trade was abolished in Washington DC
-  Fugitive slave law was passed.
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854:
-  Created territories allowing them to to decide if they should be slave or free.
-  Angered Northerners- who thought that they should be free states because they were above the Missouri Compromise.

What was the fugitive slave law?

It declared that all runaway slaves shall be brought back to their masters.

Summarize the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

- He moved to a free state and lived there for quite a whle but he came back to the slave state and he thought that he was a free person but the said that he and his family was a slave and they shall do what they are told.

Slavery was a cruel and oppressive institution, but due to their strength and spirit, enslaved people resisted slavery in many ways. How did African’s and African American’s who were enslaved often survive?

Breaking the Bonds of the Union

In 1860, Republican ______Abraham Lincoln ______was elected as President of the United States of America. Why did this anger the South?

HE said that he wanted to abolish slavery

Lincoln declared, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot last forever, half slave and half free. I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided.” How do you interpret this quote?

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede (leave/withdraw) from the “Union” Shortly after, the other southern states followed to join the newly formed Confederate States of America, with ______Jefferson Davis______as their recognized president. Who was the last Southern State to secede on May 20, 1861?

Confederate Slave States
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Arkansas
Texas
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Virginia / Union FREE States:
California
Conn.
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Mass.
Michigan
Minnesota
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Penn.
Rhode Island
Ohio
Wisconsin
Union SLAVE STATES:
Delaware
Kentucky
Missouri
Maryland
West Virginia

What occurred at Fort Sumter in April 1861?