Tasks:
- Review the components of the Compromise of 1850, and the way the compromise addresses slavery.
- Define the Fugitive Slave Act, and discuss the ways in which slaves escaped to the North using the journal digitized by Columbia University.
- Watch selected excerpt from Africans in America to see how the fugitive slave issue angered Northerners, and intensified sectional conflict.
- View minute 41:36 - minute 52:00, and answer "How did the Compromise of 1850 increase sectional tension?"
Reminders:
- Annotated Bibliography due Friday 11/20
