July 23

Missouri Compromise--In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land until it was negated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

Wilmot Proviso--Bill that would ban slavery in the terroritories acquired after the War with Mexico.

Another effort to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states. 

Please click on the link below:

http://www.history.com/topics/wilmot-proviso/videos/slavery-and-the-presidency?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false


Additional Resources and Study Aids for the Regents:
http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/core/questions/question.cfm?Course=USHG&TopicCode=3a&QNum=1&Wrong=0

Explanations to the questions:
http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/core/questions/questions.cfm?Course=USHG&TopicCode=3a

Review DBQ testing taking strategies:
http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/ushisgov/examoverview/dbq.htm

Homework: 

1. Please complete the worksheet titled "The Divisive Politics of Slavery" 
2. Fill in chicken foot organizer (main idea & 3 supporting details) then expanding to a 3 paragraph.

TOPIC: The North/South had opposing views on the issue of slavery. For the most part, the North wanted it to end and the South wanted to expand. Politicians argued. Which side would you have agreed with? North or South? Explain in 3 paragraph essay. 

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