Clay's Resolutions of 1850
January 29, 1850

Preamble.-It being desirable for the peace, concord, and harmony of the Union of these States, to settle and adjust amicably all questions of controversy between them arising out of the institution of slavery upon a fair equality and just basis therefore,

 

What is the topic of this statement?

What is Mr. Clay trying to do?

 

1.     Resolved, That California, with suitable boundaries, ought, upon her application, to be admitted as one of the States of this Union, without the imposition by Congress of any restriction in respect to the exclusion or introduction of slavery within those boundaries.

What territory of the U.S. is being discussed?

How does this change the manner in which a territory decides the issue of slavery?

 

 

8. Resolved, That Congress has no power to promote or obstruct the trade in slaves between the slaveholding States; and that the admission or exclusion of slaves brought from one into another of them, depends exclusively upon their own particular law.

What section of the country benefited by this decision?

 How does this law change Congress’ power between slave holding state’s trade?

 

 

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Mrs. Coppola's Social Studies Class
JFK Middle School
Port Jefferson Station, New York

STANDARD 1: History of the United States and New York

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

STANDARD 3: Geography Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live— local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

STANDARD 4: Economics

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their under-standing of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms.

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