Slavery Divides the Nation

16-1 & 16-2

16-1 Vocabulary

•Missouri Compromise•Wilmot Proviso•Popular sovereignty•Free-Soil Party

MO Compromise

•Proposed by Henry Clay•North of 36* 30’ in LA

Purchase = slavery may not exist, except for MO

•MO-enters as slave state•Maine-enters as free state

Slavery in the West?•Fought if slavery would be banned

in the West•Anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats

form Free Soil Party to keep slavery out of west

•1848 Martin Van Buren ran for president on Free Soil tkct-lost to Zachary Taylor

16-2 Vocabulary

•Secede•Fugitive•Civil war•Compromise of 1850•Fugitive Slave Act•Uncle Tom’ s Cabin

More Problems-1849

•CA applies for admission as free state (will throw off balance)

•Fugitive slaves should be returned

•NM-TX border dispute

Compromise of 1850•CA enters as a free state•NM and UT will decide

free/slave by popular sovereignty

•Bans slave trade in D.C.•Fugitive Slave Act•Settles TX-NM border dispute