Seeds of Civil War Part 1

How did slavery expand in the 1800’s and how did slaves resist?
-The expansion of cotton production, resistence such as sabotage, breaking tools, and escaping.

Describe the abolition movement of the 1800’s including William Lloyd Garrison, The Grimke Sisters, and Fredrick Douglas:
-Lloyd began publishing abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator. The sisters saw it as immoral and spoke and wrote against it. Frederick was a former slave who's master was his father, and later became freed.

Describe the Missouri Compromise:
-Admitted Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state.

Describe the Nullification Crisis:
-Congress adopts high tariffs to embarass Adams and John the VP opposed it.

Describe how the Mexican War brought the discussion of expansion and slavery to the forefront:
-New territories from war had to face whether territories would be free or a slave state.

Describe the Compromise of 1850:
-Based on proposals from clay which admitted California as a free state but let DC have slaves but not trade and imposed stricter fugitive slave laws.