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CHAPTER 16SLAVERY DIVIDES THE NATIONSECTION 2 – Quick promise: ?compromise = ????Henry Clay’s proposal – kept the number of slave/free states equal?Missouri = slave state ok if Maine = free stateWhy was this so important?............Wilmot Proviso:?David Wilmot – law to ban slavery in the West?Free states above 36?30’& Slave states below?Never passed – angry southerners: Congress can not ban slaveryFree-Soil Party: ?Democrats / Whigs –goal to ban slavery in the WestSection 2 – promise of 1850?promise of 1850 – attempt to save the Union?Five Parts:?1. Allowed California to e free state?2. Divided Mexican territory into New Mexico and Utah?Voters decide if slave state – popular sovereignty?3. Ended slave trade in Wash. .?4. Included strict fugitive slave law?Settled a border disputed between Texas and New Mexico Sect. 2 – Fugitive Slave Law?1850 –Fugitive Slave Law requires all citizens to help catch runaway slaves?Anyone helped escaped slaves - fined $1,000 and put in jail?This made antislavery northerners angry?Felt it made them part of slave systemCalhoun, Clay, and Webster?Calhoun– Southerner - proslavery and refused promise. ?Webster– Hated slavery, but agreed promise to serve the Union – He was afraid of a civil war –?A war between people of the same country?He supported Fugitive Slave Act?Clay – Compromise was necessary to save the Union. ?Wanted everyone to agree with each other. ?Afraid the Union could break Tom’s Cabin?1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin?Bestseller – Antislavery story?Shows: ?Evils of slavery?Injustice of Fugitive Slave ActSection 3 – The Crisis Deepens?Kansas – Nebraska Act?Senator Stephen Douglas – bill to set up a govt. for the Nebraska Territory?Divided Nebraska into two territories?Nebraska and Kansas?Gave each state right to decide about slavery –popular sovereignty Kan/Neb Act - Support?Seemed fair to many people – especially southern leaders.?Thought slave owners would move with their slaves into