COMPROMISE: Each side gives up something to try and make the other side happy

Have you ever worked out a compromise agreement with someone?  Maybe with your parents over a punishment? Or your friends when getting food?

Does a compromise make everyone happy or just tick everyone off a little less?

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5 Wilmot Proviso

• ​A Tried to stop spread of slavery
• B A bill (proposed law) that would make slavery illegal in western states and territories​​

4 Missouri Compromise

• A 1820
• B Henry Clay
  
• ​C Missouri Slave State
  
• ​D Maine Free State
  
• E Kept balance equal
  
• ​F 36 degrees 30 minutes North Latitude
  
• ​G First action by congress concerning slavery
  

The Road to the Civil War

WOW.... What was this incredibly racist political add saying?

10 Harpers Ferry

• A Planned slave uprising organized by John Brown
• B Failed but violently brought the struggle against slavery to the public eye
  
• C John Brown charged with Treason for attacking federal armory
  
• D Found guilty and executed
  
• E Becomes a martyr to the North and Abolitionists everywhere
  
• F War is inevitable
  

9 Dred Scott v Sanford

• A At one point Dred Scott (slave) was taken to Illinois by his owner
• B Illinois is a free state, so Dred Scott argues that since he went to a free state he should have been set free
• C Supreme Court says: You are someone's property not  a person you have no right to come before us and argue your case
  
• D Slaves are property and not citizens
  
• E Supreme Court also says: Slavery is a State issue not our bidniss
  

7 Views on Compromise​

• A Abraham Lincoln
  • "​A house divided against itself cannot stand...  It will become all one thing or all the other thing"
• ​B Joseph Underwood about Henry Clay
  
  • ​​"He has been the great compromiser of those political agitations that would endanger our Union"

3 South

• A Believed slavery was an economic issue​​
  
• ​B Farming economy
  
• C Anti-Tariff
  
• ​D Pro-State's Rights
  

2 West

• A What to do out west?
• ​B Slavery or not?
  
• ​C Like the North or the South?
  

• ​G ​​in his 1st inaugural address Lincoln says "I have no purpose... to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists"
  

• D Lincoln Wins the election
• E 7 Southern States secede and form the Confederate States of America
  
• F Before Lincoln even inaugurated

• B Republicans run Abraham Lincoln in opposition of the spread of slavery
• C ​Democrats split between two candidates 
  
  • ​1 Stephen Douglas (North)
    
  • ​2 John Breckenridge (South)
    

11 Election of 1860

• A Slavery is the main issue

Col Robert E Lee

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8 Kansas - Nebraska Act

• A Allowed settlers of those territories to vote on whether or not they wanted to be slave or free states
• B Thousands of people from the North and the South moved to these territories to vote
  
• C Including John Brown
  
• ​D These folks take it to the streets and fight it out
  
• ​E Becomes known as Bleeding Kansas
  
• F After this mess ​Republican Party formed to stop spread of slavery
  

Does Lincoln think compromises will work?

6 Compromise of 1850

• A ​California becomes a state, Free (No slavery)
• B Maintains balance after Texas a slave state was added
  
• ​C Fugitive Slave law adopted and enforced
  
• D Slave TRADE not slavery banned
  
• ​E New States in South West would vote on slavery
  
• ​F throws out MO Compromise
  

1 North

• A Believed slavery was a moral issue
• B Industrialized economy
  
• C Pro-Tariff
• D Pro-National Government
  

Sectionalism​​