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Events Leading to the Civil War

Events Leading to the Civil War. Compromise of 1850. Wilmot Proviso. Wilmot Proviso.

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Events Leading to the Civil War

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  1. Events Leading to the Civil War

  2. Compromise of 1850

  3. Wilmot Proviso

  4. Wilmot Proviso • "Provided, That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted."

  5. Sold 300,000 copies in1852 • 2 million within 10 years

  6. Kansas Nebraska Act

  7. The Kansas Nebraska Act

  8. Bleeding Kansas

  9. Bleeding KansasKansas’s Popular Sovereignty • John Brown – Racial Abolitionist • Town of Lawrence, Kansas sacked by pro–slavery forces • Brown retaliates – Pottawatomie Massacre • Lecompton Constitution – pro-slavery

  10. Sumner – Brooks Incident “The Crime Against Kansas” Sen. Charles Sumner(R-MA) Congr. Preston Brooks(D-SC)

  11. Sumner/ Brooks Incident • Charles Sumner – U.S. Senator, abolitionist, and kind of annoying • Preston Brooks – congressmen, pro-slavery • Brooks beats Sumner with a cane during an anti-slavery rant in a session of congress

  12. The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

  13. Ripon, Wisconsin & Jackson, Michigan“Politics makes for strange bedfellows” A coalition of Northern Whigs, Northern Democrats, Free Soilers, and AbolitionistsGoal: Stop the further spread of Slavery Birth of the Republican Party

  14. Dred Scott

  15. The Dred Scott Case • Slave brought to free territory by his master; sued for freedom. • Case brought to the Supreme Court. • Supreme Court ruled slaves are not citizens and cannot sue. • Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that the Constitutionprotected people’s property • Slaves are people’s property • Constitution cannot restrict owners from moving their slaves

  16. John Brown Pottawattamie Massacre Harpers Ferry

  17. Lincoln’s Election 1860

  18. Southern Succession

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