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Here are the teacher pack items for Conflicts over Slavery:
Overview In this experience, students learn about the conflicts over slavery in the western territories during the 1800s and how these conflicts were temporarily resolved with the provisions outlined in the Compromise of 1850. Students also learn about the Free Soil Party and why it did not support slavery. Finally, students read about Anthony Burns, who was tried in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act. Students begin this experience by recalling what they know about the Missouri Compromise of 1820, covered in the experience The Era of Good Feelings and The Missouri Compromise. Objectives:
Prior to the Civil War, the issue of slavery divided the country, causing disputes between the North and the South. Over the years, efforts were made to resolve these conflicts. In the early 1800s, when Missouri petitioned the government for statehood as a slave state, a new dispute over slavery arose. To help solve this conflict, the government passed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Objectives:
Recall what you know about the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Discuss with students some of their responses. Remind students that the Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while allowing Maine to be admitted as a free state. Additionally, slavery was prohibited in the unorganized territory of the Great Plains (indicated by Missouri Territory on the map) and permitted it in the state of Missouri and the Arkansas Territory (indicated by the yellow and light blue on the map). The area north of the 36 parallel within the lands of the Louisiana Purchase outlawed slavery. South of that parallel, no restrictions were put on slavery.
List a question that you have about the role of slavery in the shaping of U.S. history.
Discuss student questions. You can use them as guiding questions for examining rising tensions leading to the Civil War.
