Post on 24-Feb-2016
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The Nation Splits Apart
Essential Question
What were the causes of the Civil War?
Expansion Leads to Conflict
Mexican Cession adds 5,000 square miles Free states or slave states?
CA admitted as free state: imbalance
Compromise of 1850
Organized New Mexico and Utah territories – popular sovereignty
Outlawed buying/selling of slaves in D.C.
Fugitive Slave Act
Federal Crime to help runaway slaves, allow for recapture
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Desire to link CA with rest of nation by railroad
Douglas wants Northern route Proposes organizing
territories into Kansas and Nebraska Popular sovereignty
states
To get Southern support – will ban Missouri Compromise line
Bleeding Kansas Center of struggle over slavery
Pro-slavery v. Free-soilers
Pro-slavery forces attacked anti-slavery newspaper buildings and free-soil areas
Marais des Cygnes Massacre
John Brown Raid
Before granted statehood both sides brought in settlers, voter fraud
Eventually admitted as free state
Dred Scott Decision Sued for family’s freedom
Lived in states where slavery was illegal
Supreme court ruled he was not a citizen and could not bring a case to court
Aroused public outrage, deepened sectional divide
Abraham Lincoln Becomes President
Lincoln family history
Lincoln favored idea of Congress banning slavery in new territories and capital Compensated
Emancipation in D.C.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Wins Presidency in 1860 w/ Northern votes
The South Secedes After Lincoln’s election
Dec. 20, 1860: “The union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states under the name of the ‘United States of America’ is hereby dissolved.”
By Feb Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas seceded, N Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Virginia threatens
The Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis is president (Senator
from Mississippi) New Constitution allowing slavery