Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Review Day 3


5/17/2017Character Trait of the Month:
Commitment
The state or quality of being dedicated to a case, activity, etc.

Word of the Week:
PATIENCE
The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble or suffering without getting angry or upset.
Objective
Review Day 3
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Presidents of 1860 - Present Day

14.1: Growing Tensions Over Slavery
    1. Section Focus Question: How did the question of admission of new states to the Union fuel the debate over slavery and states’ rights?
    2. Slavery and the Mexican-American War
      1. The Wilmot Proviso
        1. Between 1820 and 1848, four new slaveholding states and four new free states were admitted to the Union.
        2. This maintained the balance between free and slaveholding states, with 15 of each. 
        3. However, territory gained by the Mexican-American War threatened to destroy the balance.
        4. Wilmot Proviso: Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania proposed that Congress should ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the US as a result of the Mexican-American War. 
          1. The provision passed in the House but failed in the Senate.
          2. Many supporters of slavery viewed it as an attack on slavery by the North.
      2. An Antislavery Party
        1. Popular Sovereignty: meant that people in the territory or state would vote directly on issues, rather than having their elected representatives decide.
        2. In August 1848, antislavery Whigs and Democrats joined forces to form a new party, which they called the Free-Soil 
        3. Martin Van Buren: Former Democratic President lost
        4. General Zachary Taylor: Hero of the Mexican-American War won
    3. A Bitter Debate 
        1. Secede: withdraw
        2. There were other issues dividing the North and South
          1. Northerners wanted the slave trade to be abolished in D.C.
          2. Southerners wanted northerners to catch people who had escaped from slavery 
        3. Fugitives: runaway enslaved people
        4. Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, Missouri Compromise
        5. South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun proposed there were only two ways to preserve the South’s way of life
          1. constitutional amendment to protect states; rights
          2. Session
        6. Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster - called for an end to the bitter sectionalism that was dividing the nation. 

Tonight's homework
Ch. Sec. Outline and President Graphic Organizer - Completed
 
Part 2 of Review due Tomorrow!

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