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UNIT 10: Road to the Civil War
• America expands from Sea to shining Sea
• Southerners want SLAVERY to be allowed everywhere;
• Northerners want slavery to stay in the South
• The Big Question:– Will the new land be open to SLAVERY?
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SLAVERY IN THE NEW TERRITORIES
• Most POPULAR SOLUTION:
• Popular Sovereignty: Letting states choose for
themselves whether or not they will be SLAVE or FREE
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NORTH v. SOUTH:NORTH v. SOUTH:NORTH v. SOUTH:NORTH v. SOUTH:
ß 15 Free States = 15 Slave States15 Free States = 15 Slave States
ß California ready for statehood: California ready for statehood: 49er’s are free white men.49er’s are free white men.
ß South wants a Fugitive Slave Law South wants a Fugitive Slave Law to make sure runaway slaves are to make sure runaway slaves are returned to the SOUTHreturned to the SOUTH
ß 15 Free States = 15 Slave States15 Free States = 15 Slave States
ß California ready for statehood: California ready for statehood: 49er’s are free white men.49er’s are free white men.
ß South wants a Fugitive Slave Law South wants a Fugitive Slave Law to make sure runaway slaves are to make sure runaway slaves are returned to the SOUTHreturned to the SOUTH
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Henry Clay: Compromise of 1850= Northern
Advantage
Henry Clay: Compromise of 1850= Northern
AdvantageCALIFORNIA = FREE STATE Popular
Sovereignty In Utah and New
Mexico
South gets a FUGITIVE
SLAVE LAW
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SLAVERY WAS DISAPPEARINGIN THE NORTH
ABOLITIONISM WAS GROWING
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Meanwhile Southern states become more dependent on slavesSlaves created the enormous wealth that made the South prosper
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KING COTTON: Cotton production boomed and dominated the farming of the South. Slavery was a
closely defended PECULIAR INSTITUTION
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Harriett Beecher Stowe writes a book about the cruelties of slavery
• The Book is wildly popular (over 2 million copies sold)
• Southerner believe the NORTH IS OUT TO GET THEM!
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
SOUTHERNERS LOVE THE KANSAS-
NEBRASKA ACT! WHY?
1. Kansas and Nebraska open to Popular
Sovereignty (potential slave states
2. Repeals the Missouri Compromise (no
slaves north of 36 30’)
RESULT: BLEEDING KANSAS
WAR between pro-slavery
and anti-slavery settlers
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“Bleeding Kansas”“Bleeding Kansas”
KANSAS ERUPTS INTO A MINI-CIVIL WARPRO-SLAVERY settlers try to populate the state and
make it a slave stateABOLITIONIST settlers try to stop them
FIGHTING goes on for years at both sides refuse to surrender
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Violence in the SenateViolence in the Senate
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)
South Carolina Congressman beat Senator Charles Sumner in the
Senate chamber with a cane after Sumner insulted Southerners
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Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857-SLAVE THAT LIVED IN FREE
TERRITORY
-SUED TO BE FREE
-SUPREME COURT REJECTS HIS CASE
1. HE IS NOT A CITIZENAND CANNOT SUE
2. SLAVES ARE PROPERTY
AND CAN BE TAKENANYWHERE
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John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859
•Brown a radical abolitionistBrown a radical abolitionist
•He plans to rob the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start He plans to rob the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolutiona slave revolution
•He FAILS and is hangedHe FAILS and is hanged
•Southerners believe NORTHERNERS support Southerners believe NORTHERNERS support BROWN!BROWN!
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859
•Brown a radical abolitionistBrown a radical abolitionist
•He plans to rob the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start He plans to rob the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolutiona slave revolution
•He FAILS and is hangedHe FAILS and is hanged
•Southerners believe NORTHERNERS support Southerners believe NORTHERNERS support BROWN!BROWN!
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John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?
John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?
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1860Presidential
Election
1860Presidential
Election
Abraham Lincoln
Republican
Abraham Lincoln
Republican
John BellConstitutional
Union
John BellConstitutional
Union
Stephen A. DouglasNorthern Democrat
Stephen A. DouglasNorthern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge
Southern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge
Southern Democrat
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Republican Party Platform in 1860
Republican Party Platform in 1860
ß Abraham Lincoln is the CANDIDATE
ß He is NOT AN ABOLITIONIST
ß HE DOES NOT WANT SLAVERY IN THE NEW TERRITORIES
ß ABRAHAM LINCOLN PROMISES THE SOUTH HE WILL NOT TOUCH SLAVERY WHERE IT ALREADY EXISTS
ß Abraham Lincoln is the CANDIDATE
ß He is NOT AN ABOLITIONIST
ß HE DOES NOT WANT SLAVERY IN THE NEW TERRITORIES
ß ABRAHAM LINCOLN PROMISES THE SOUTH HE WILL NOT TOUCH SLAVERY WHERE IT ALREADY EXISTS
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ELECTION OF 1860
• ABRAHAM LINCOLN: REPUBLICAN• DEMOCRATIC PART SPLIT!!
– Northern Democrats– Southern Democrats
WHENEVER ONE POLITICAL PARTY SPLITS IT IS EASIER
FOR THE OTHER TO WIN
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LINCOLN WINSNovember 1860
• Lincoln wins with less than 50% of the vote
• He does not get inaugurated until March of 1861
• Southern States vowed to leave the Union if Lincoln were elected
• They do!!!!!!!!!
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Lincoln’s election (Nov 1860)Causes the Southern states
To SECEDE (LEAVE) the UNION
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Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861