Chapter 15
Section 1
The Debate Over Slavery
New Land Renews Slavery Disputes
Wilmot Priviso
prohibited slavery
north of the
36 30’ line
“neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude”
Sectionalism
example of North and
South over slavery
Compromise of 1850
John C. Calhoun
wanted slave states to be allowed
“to separate and part in peace”
Daniel Webster
spoke in favor of plan
proposed by Henry Clay
CA enter as free state
Fugitive Slave Act
crime to help runaway slaves
allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free territories
Anthony Burns
arrested in Boston in 1854
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
anti-slavery novel that sold
more than 2 million copies
Antislavery Literature
Harriet Beecher Stowe
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Lincoln referred to her as the “little
lady that started this big war”