Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
 Compromise
of 1850 (five main facts)
1. California was entered as a free state.
2. New Mexico and Utah were each allowed to use
popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery. In
other words, the people would pick whether the
states would be free or slave.
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
 Compromise
of 1850
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
 Compromise
of 1850 (five main
facts)
3. The Republic of Texas gave up
lands that it claimed in present
day New Mexico and received
$10 million to pay its debt to
Mexico.
4. The slave trade was abolished in
the District of Columbia.
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
 Compromise
of 1850 (five main facts)
5. The Fugitive Slave Act made any federal official
who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a
fine. This was the most controversial part of the
Compromise of 1850 and caused many abolitionists
to increase their efforts against slavery.
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
 passed by congress in 1854
 Effectively repealed the MO
Compromise
 Allowed previously free and
unorganized territories of KS and NE
to choose whether or not to permit
slavery by popular sovereignty
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Supporters of both sides raced to
KS
 Eventually setting up rival
governments
 Territory became known as
“bleeding Kansas”
 Armed clashes between the
two sides
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
 Sumner-Brooks incident
 Sumner (MA senator) denounced the
Act on the senate floor
 Brooks (SC senator) approached
Sumner said he was insulted b/c he
was from the South and was related
to one of the act’s authors
 Brooks beat Sumner with a heavy
cane almost killing him
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
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Dred Scott Decision (1587)
 Dred Scott, a slave in MO went with his
owner into a free territory where he
lived for 4 years
 His owner later returned to MO, where
he died
 Scott sued for his freedom
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
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Dred Scott Decision (1587)
 SCOTUS ruled that he had no right to sue because as a
slave he was not a citizen
 Also declared that a slave owner could not be deprived
if is “property” without due process of law
 Struck down the Missouri Compromise because it was a
violation of the 5th amendment
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry(1859)
 Group of radical abolitionist
led by John Brown
 Attacked the federal arsenal
at Harper’s Ferry
 Planned to seize weapons
and give them to slaves
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify
the differences between the northern and southern
economy, social structure, and culture?
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry(1859)
 Plan failed when US troops under the
command of Robert E Lee surrounded the
arsenal and forced them to surrender
 Brown was hanged
 Many saw it as a sign that blood would
have to be shed for the South to protect
its way of life
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the
differences between the northern and southern economy, social
structure, and culture?
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Create a wordle depicting the causes of the Civil War
Open a word document
 Type in your own words the causes of the civil war from class
notes and your reading of chapter 10
 For example
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Decide which causes you feel played the largest part in the war
and copy and past these several times in the document
 For example
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To keep words in a phrase together:
 type ~ in between the words
 Located in upper left corner of keyboard
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the
differences between the northern and southern economy, social
structure, and culture?
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Select then copy everything you have written on your word document
Go to Wordle , paste what you have copied into the space provided
and click go
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the
differences between the northern and southern economy, social
structure, and culture?
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Here’s what your result will
look like
With ~ between words in a
phrase
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You can change it by
clicking on randomize
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the
differences between the northern and southern economy, social
structure, and culture?
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Once you have the wordle
the way you want it
Go to the start button in the
lower left corner
Open the snipping tool
Go back to your wordle
and snip a copy of the
screen
Essential Question: How did the issue of slavery intensify the
differences between the northern and southern economy, social
structure, and culture?
Open power point and paste your wordle on a blank screen
 Then find pictures that go with your wordle and “decorate”
the slide
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Play with the picture format button until you are satisfied
with you slide
 Lastly – print your slide
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