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The 1850s:

The 1850s:. Road to Secession. Problems with Sectionalism. CA status S. “Fire-Eaters” Underground RR & Fugitive Slaves Personal liberty laws Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842). Compromise of 1850. Fugitive Slave Act, 1850. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896).

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The 1850s:

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  1. The 1850s: Road to Secession

  2. Problems with Sectionalism • CA status • S. “Fire-Eaters” • Underground RR & Fugitive Slaves • Personal liberty laws • Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

  3. Compromise of 1850

  4. Fugitive Slave Act, 1850

  5. HarrietBeecherStowe(1811 – 1896) “So you’re the little lady who started this war…” - Abraham Lincoln

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

  7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852

  8. The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party] • Nativists • Anti-Catholics • Anti-immigrants 1849  Secret Order of the Star Spangled Banner

  9. 1852 Presidential Election √Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil

  10. 1852 Election Results

  11. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

  12. “Bleeding Kansas” Border “Ruffians”

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

  14. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr? • Pottawattamie Creek (1856)

  15. Birth of Republican Party,1854 • Northern Whigs • N. Democrats • Free-Soilers • Know-Nothings • Opponents of KN-NE Act

  16. 1856 Presidential Election √James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Whig/American

  17. 1856Election Results

  18. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

  19. What caused thePanic of 1857?? What were itsaffects on the nation?

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

  21. Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine PopularSovereignty?

  22. Brown & Harper’s Ferry, 1859

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

  24. Republican Party Platform in 1860 • Non-extension of slavery [Free-Soil] • Protective tariff [N. Industry] • No abridgment of rights for immigrants • Government aid to build a Pacific RR [NW] • Internal improvements [for W.] at fed. expense. • Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].

  25. 1860 Election: 3 “Outs” & 1 ”Run!”

  26. 1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?

  27. 1860 Election Results

  28. Crittenden Compromise:A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity Sen. John J. Crittenden(Know-Nothing, KY)

  29. Secession!SC Dec. 20, 1860

  30. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

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