Slavery

Look at the chart on page 452 in your textbook, and post two comments on the question below.  Your first comment answers the question, and your second comment responds to your classmates.  Make sure you answer in complete sentences and use proper grammar.

Question: It's easy to see on the map how the concentration of slaves was connected to where the various cash crops were grown.  But how does the map also demonstrate how difficult it would be to free slaves at all?

Reading in the textbook

Read pages 424-428; 434-436; 440-447 and answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:

1. What were some examples of the tension that existed within Congress during the debates over adding California as a state?

2. Why was Webster's speech an important turning point in the debates over a fugitive slave law?

3. Why did 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' create so much controversy? Where did Harriet Beecher Stowe get her inspiration from?

4. We talked about how the 'new' generation of political leaders were different than people like Clay, Webster, and even Calhoun.  How did Stephen Douglas embody that difference?

5. Why did Abraham Lincoln re-enter politics because of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?

6. What were the political consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?

7. How did Missouri play a part in the territorial elections in Kansas?

8. What were the Free-Soilers all about?

9. What was the result of the bogus elections in Kansas?

10. How did the Brooks-Sumner incident represent what was going on in the country at the time?

11. What political consequences did the Lecompton Constitution have for Stephen Douglas?