2.  Missouri applies for statehood (1st time a
state had been admitted since the
Louisiana Purchase)
 Upset the balance of free & slave state
votes in Senate
 Compromise was reached- Missouri was
admitted as a slave state, Main as free
 What was the result of the Missouri
Compromise?
(2:19)

3.  What is a protective tariff?
 Benefited new industries in the North
 In SC, it raised the price of manufactured
goods SC bought from the north & Britain
 Vice President John C. Calhoun-
“South Carolina Exposition and Protest”

4.  Calhoun claimed it was a state’s right to
declare such a law unconstitutional and
nullify it thought a special state
convention
 Nullifiers vs Unionists
 Calhoun resigned as VP & took a position
in the Senate where his voice was strong
 President Andrew Jackson &
the Force Bill
(1:19)

5.  The theory of secession, as an alternative
to mere nullification of laws, allowed
states to leave the United States if thy
believed that their rights were being
infringed upon.
 Under this compact theory- states were
more powerful than the federal union
 Both theories would be disproven by the
civil war

6.  The California Territory became part of
the US through the treaty that ended the
Mexican War.
 1849 Gold Rush
 Californians wanted their state to e “free
soil” they petitioned to enter as a free
state
 Resulted in the Compromise of 1850

7.  California is a free state
 Outlawed slave trade in Washington DC
 The rest of the Mexican Cession would
decide if they were free/slave by a vote
by the residents (popular sovereignty)
 Fugitive Slave Law
› “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
(5:26)

8.  Located in the northern part of the
Louisiana Territory
 Missouri Compromise states it could not be
a slave state
 Politicians wanted a railroad to go through
Kansas, but needed southern support
 Repealed the 36 degree 30” line of the
Missouri Compromise
 Popular sovereignty for new states
 “Bleeding Kansas”
John Brown and bleeding
Kansas Documentary (8:59)

9. (5:47)
• Supreme Court attempt to end
the controversy over the role of
free states in determining g the
status of the enslaved
•“Once free, always free”
•Constitution protects the owner
of property from having the
government take that property
away
•Also ruled that the Congress
could not pass measures limiting
the expansion of slavery in the
territories
•John Brown & Harper’s Ferry

10.  Republican Abraham Lincoln
campaigned on a platform of
“free soil”
 Lincoln was not an abolitionist in
1860
 After his election, SC called a
special convention and signed
Articles of Secession
› Claimed the rights of South
Carolinians had not been & would
not be protected by the federal
government… 6 other states
seceded soon after
Video (2:29)