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The 1850s:

The 1850s:. Road to Secession. The Missouri Compromise, 1820 –1821. Compromise of 1850. Compromise of 1850. Admit California as a free state Divide Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico - allow settlers to decide on slavery via Popular Sovereignty

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The 1850s:

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  1. The 1850s: Road to Secession

  2. The Missouri Compromise, 1820–1821

  3. Compromise of 1850

  4. Compromise of 1850 • Admit California as a free state • Divide Mexican Cession into Utah and New Mexico - allow settlers to decide on slavery via Popular Sovereignty • Land in dispute between Texas-New Mexico given to new territories = Fed Gov assumed $10 million Texas debt • Ban slave trade in D.C. (Whites still own slaves • Adopt new, rigorously enforced Fugitive Slave Law

  5. 1852Election Results

  6. HarrietBeecherStowe(1811 – 1896) So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln

  7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 • Sold 300,000 copies inthe first year. • 2 million in a decade!

  8. What impact might this poster have on northerners who rejected abolitionism? • In what ways would it have spurred northern loathing of the white South? • How might it have encouraged northerners to think of slavery and slaveholders as threats not just to Uncle Tom but to the American republic itself? Uncle Tom Theater Poster

  9. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

  10. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) • Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed that these two new territories employ popular sovereignty • Douglas needed the territories organized b/c of his interests ($) in the transcontinental RR development • Popular Sovereignty - proposed to win Southern Congressional votes

  11. Kansas and Nebraska, 1854

  12. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr? Mural in the Kansas Capitol buildingby John Steuart Curry (20c)

  13. The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

  14. “Bleeding Kansas” Border “Ruffians”(pro-slavery Missourians)

  15. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854 • Northern Whigs. • Northern Democrats. • Free-Soilers. • Know-Nothings. • Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

  16. 1856Election Results

  17. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

  18. 1857 Dred Scott v.Sandford ruling • the Court held that slaves were not citizens • that living in a free state did not make a former slave free • that Congress had no power to ban slavery anywhere. • What will be the North’s response? • What will be the South’s response?

  19. Panic of 1857Hurt the North, South relatively unaffectedGave the South a false sense of security. How?

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

  21. The Freeport Doctrine • Lincoln asked Douglas • “How can you reconcile Dred Scott and popular sovereignty?” • Douglas responded • “Slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens did not pass and enforce slave codes for maintaining it.” • Angered Southern Democrats

  22. John Brown’s Raidon Harper’s Ferry, 1859

  23. 1860PresidentialElection √Abraham LincolnRepublican John BellConstitutional Union Stephen A. DouglasNorthern Democrat John C. BreckinridgeSouthern Democrat

  24. Evolution of Major Parties through 1860

  25. Republican Party Platform in 1860 • Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers.] • Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists]. • No abridgment of rights for immigrants [a disappointment for the “Know-Nothings”]. • Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest]. • Internal improvements [for the West] at federal expense. • Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].

  26. 1860 Election: 3 “Outs” & 1 ”Run!”

  27. 1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!

  28. 1860 Election Results

  29. Presidential Election of 1860 (showing popular vote by county)

  30. Crittenden Compromise:A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity Senator John J. Crittenden(Know-Nothing-KY)

  31. Proposed Crittenden Compromise, 1860

  32. Southern Opposition to Secession, 1860–1861

  33. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

  34. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

  35. What were the Economic Issues separating the North, South and West? What were the Political Issues separating the North, South and West?

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