Civil War/Reconstruction, 1830-1876
The Compromise of 1850....
.......helped to set the stage for the Civil War.
Please read about this compromise and know the five key points it included.
(Hint: One is the Fugitive Slave act!) There may be a pop quiz over this compromise...
Quote:
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South."
Who said this? What original document was he referencing by saying "a house divided against itself cannot stand"? Can you cite the reference?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_House_Divided_Speech
***Feel free to read the entire speech, just for fun! It's really good! :)http://www.history.com/topics/lincoln-douglas-debates/videos/gilder-lehrman-house-divided
Finally, President Lincoln met an author and legend says he greeted her with this statement,
"so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Who was it and what book did she write? If you haven't read it, you're missing something wonderful!!!
https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/impact.shtml
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