Monday Nov. 16

Question 1

Background to Compromise of 1850

Answer 1

Slavery in western territories?

-Wilmot Proviso
proposed amendment 
-no slavery allowed int territory gained from Mexican War
-did not go through
-highlight controversy 
-heightened antislavery cause.

Two extreme views

• Slavery to be banned from the west. (Argument similar to Thomas Paine- higher source; not my view this is what God says)
• My property to take to West; I am allowed to do that.

Popular Sovereignty
-leave it up to the states.

Question 2

Other issues that lead to Missouri Compromise

Answer 2

New Mexico: military rule
-become territory or state

Utah: Mormons- create state call Deseret

• frontier offered freedom
• liked individualism, own control of lives

California- Gold Rush
-Ask for statehood
-ships abandoned and participated in gold rush
Texas: boundary dispute between New Mexico

-wanted statehood and extra territory
Death of Taylor-
died before he could choose
Stephen Douglas and Henry Clay
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Question 3

Compromise of 1850

Answer 3

California-free state

New Mexico and Utah-popular sovereignty

Texas border where it is today
-US assumes state debt (10 million)

Stronger fugitive slave laws

• people agree on it
• Calhoun

Passed:

end to controversy?

Question 4

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 4

THEME: popular sovereignty

-uphold or wanting slavery in the west

Question 5

Review

Answer 5

What was going on in the U.S. during the 1830s and 1840s
-expanision

Question 6

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Answer 6

Force of federal commissioners

• North does not support equality
• but does not like this law to be in their state
• Comes from Compromise of 1850

Civil Disobedience
-Underground Railroad
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