A Nation Splits ApartChapter 10

A Nation Splits Apart Checklist

•California wants to join

•Compromise of 1850

•Kansas-Nebraska Act

•Uncle Tom’s Cabin

•Republican Party

California…What to do?

•California gets enough people to become a state.

•Wanted to enter the Union as a free state

•Compromise of 1850!

Compromise of 1850

• Five Parts–Admission of California– Texas and New Mexico Act–Utah Act– Fugitive Slave Law–Abolish slave Trade in DC (not outlaw

slavery)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Stephen Douglas, senator from Illinois, believed in Popular Sovereignty.

• Passed a bill that gave this power to those areas.

Youtube Clip - Stephen Douglas Campaign Video

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

• About slave life in the South.

• Wildly popular book, millions were sold.

• North- call to action• South- Lies!

Youtube Clip - Uncle Toms Cabin HD

Republican Party is formed

•Free Soilers – Abolitionists Politicians

•Whigs – Failing Political Party (N v S)• (Abe Lincoln was a Northern Whig)

•Know-Nothings- Nativists

A Nation Splits Apart Checklist

California wants to join

Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Republican Party

Bleeding KansasChecklist

•John Brown

•Pottawatomie Massacre

•Guerrilla War & Civil War

•Lecompton Constitution

•Dred Scott Decision

Bleeding Kansas

•Pro-slavery and anti-slavery people rushed to settle in Kansas

•Think of rival gangs fighting over turf.

Pottawatomie Massacre•Pro-slavery people from Missouri rush into Lawrence ,Kansas. Burn town to the ground.

•John Brown, abolitionist, kills 5 pro-slavery settlers in return for Lawrence. Becomes known as Pottawatomie Massacre

Guerrilla War & Civil War•For 4 months Kansas explodes in civil war!

•Army is sent to restore order.

•Guerrilla war follows

Lecompton Constitution

• People of Kansas tried to pass a Constitution… 3 times.

•They finally gave up!

Dred Scott Decision•Dred Scott was a slave. Sued his owner for freedom.

•Went all the way to Supreme Court .

•Supreme Court ruled slaves were property, had no rights, would never become citizens of the USA.

Youtube Clip - The Dred Scott Decision

Raid on Harpers Ferry •John Brown led a band of men, they attacked the Armory at Harpers Ferry , and captured all the guns.

•Was going to use guns to start a war between pro and anti-slavery people.

•Was captured by Robert E Lee.

Youtube clip - John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Bleeding KansasChecklist

John Brown

Pottawatomie Massacre

Guerrilla War & Civil War

Lecompton Constitution

Dred Scott Decision

Abe Lincolns run for PresidentChecklist

•Lincoln-Douglas Debates

•Freeport Doctrine

•Platform

•John C Breckinridge

•John Bell

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Stephen Douglas and Abe Lincoln debated

• Abe wanted to stop the spread of Slavery

• Douglas –Freeport Doctrine– Said local legislators had the power to

end slavery.

Election of 1860

• Southern Democrats Platform- Pro-slavery– Nominated John C Breckinridge

• Northern Democrats Platform- Anti-slavery– Nominated Stephen Douglas

• Constitutional Union Party – Pro-slavery– Nominated John Bell

• Republican Party Platform- Anti-slavery– Nominated Abe Lincoln

Election of 1860, part 2

Abe Lincoln gets 40% of the vote…

And Wins!!!!

Hail to the Chief!!!

Abe Lincolns run for PresidentChecklist

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Freeport Doctrine

Platform

John C Breckinridge

John Bell

SecessionChecklist

•The Secession 7

•Confederate States of America

•Crittenden Compromise

•Peace Convention

The Secession 7• South Carolina was first to go • Then Mississippi, Florida and

Alabama• Then Georgia,

Louisiana, and Texas

Confederate States of America

• Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of Confederate States of America

• Wrote a new Constitution, specifically protecting slavery and state rights.

Crittenden Compromise

• US House and Senate tried to keep the union together.

• Drafted the Crittenden Compromise

• Stated a line be drawn where the old Missouri Compromise was, north is free, south is slave

• N and S opposed it.

Peace Convention

• Congress again tried to prevent a split nation.

• This time, trying to avoid a civil war…

• Any guesses on how that worked out?

SecessionChecklist

The Secession 7

Confederate States of America

Crittenden Compromise

Peace Convention

Recap!

Play that funky music… Mr. James!!

Youtube Clip- Causes of the civil war