Seed 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.