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Warm Up: Images Notes on Immediate Causes of the Civil War Closing Activity : Quotes Review. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. - Harriet Beecher Stowe Abolitionist Author – Instant best seller; North increased in abolitionist movement; South felt it was an attack
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Warm Up: Images Notes on Immediate Causes of the Civil War Closing Activity: Quotes Review
Uncle Tom’s Cabin -Harriet Beecher Stowe Abolitionist Author – Instant best seller; North increased in abolitionist movement; South felt it was an attack -depicted evil side of slavery to the public “Uncle Tom” – Faithful, Strong, Hardworking Slave “Simon Legree” – Evil Northern Slave Owner who moves south Has Uncle Tom whipped to death -1852, sold over a million copies
Kansas-Nebraska Act -1854--popular sovereignty passed as law in 1850 compromise to determine slavery Upset the North with Nebraska being north of Missouri Compromise -rush to populate state with “voters” for each side -”bleeding Kansas” – 200 people killed miscommunications and revenge slavery and abolitionist forces resort to violence Come into the state with guns to vote by force – slavery wins through false voting -A fight in the U.S. Senate Preston Brooks v.Charles Sumner Brooks Attacks Sumner for speech insulting the South in Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sanford -Scott is a slave -he is taken into free states Lives there with his master for four years before returning to Missouri where his master dies -sues for freedom based on NW Ordinance and Missouri Compromise -Supreme Court (majority of southern justices) rules: Blacks are not citizens Can’t ban slavery Missouri Comp. is illegal Because it would interfere with Southerners rights to own property – 5th Amendment
Development of Republican Party -Slavery had come to dominate the differences in the parties Whig party disappears with split on slavery -by 1850 the differences had peaked so that anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers formed a new anti-slavery party Republican Party is formally organized in Jackson, Michigan -official party policy was to oppose the growth of slavery where it did not exist. In the territories
Lincoln-Douglas Debates -Senate race in 1858 Stephen Douglas (Dem), Abraham Lincoln (Rep.) Douglas – well known Nationally – two-term Senator Lincoln – Locally known, Nationally- Nobody -debate over slavery issues neither man wanted slavery in the area, but how to do it? -Douglas issues Freeport Doctrine Slavery needs certain laws in order to exist. Don’t pass those laws and there will be no slavery No one to enforce them -Douglas wins the election, Lincoln gains national fame Douglas’ party splits further while Lincoln gets national recognition
Lincoln-Douglas Debates -Senate race in 1858 Stephen Douglas (Dem), Abraham Lincoln (Rep.) -debate over slavery issues neither man wanted slavery in the area, but how to do it? -Douglas issues Freeport Doctrine Slavery needs certain laws in order to exist. Don’t pass those laws and there will be no slavery -Douglas wins the election, Lincoln gains national fame
John Brown’s Raid -John Brown was an extreme abolitionist Who was studying slave uprisings of Rome and Haiti -captured Harper’s Ferry military installation in Virginia with intent to arm slaves Held 60 prominent citizens captive; intent on providing weapons to slaves, but none would come forward -surrounded and forced to surrender by the Marines -Brown found guilty at trial and then hanged--becomes a martyr for many abolitionists -Many Southerners thought Brown represented northerners who wanted to control the southern lifestyle and economy
Southern Secession -1860 election Lincoln wins the nomination for Republicans against William Seward – Lincoln is less well known -slavery divided the parties -Lincoln pledges to stop spread of slavery but not to interfere with the south The South does NOT believe him -Douglas got support of Northern Democrats -John Breckinridge got Southern Democrats -John Bell nominated by Constitutional Union Party
Lincoln’s Election • -Lincoln wins election with no southern electoral votes • Less than half the popular vote • -Southern states secede in fear of gov’t where they have no voice • -S.C. first to secede, 6 others follow – December 1860 • Confederate States of America formed before Lincoln takes office • Based on US Constitution except in regards to States Rights and Slavery • -Jefferson Davis elected Confederate President • Show strength to the North
“If the people of Kansas want a slaveholding state, let them have it, and if they want a free state they have a right to it, and it is not for the people of Illinois, or Missouri, or New York, or Kentucky, to complain, whatever the decision of the people of Kansas may be.” Stephen Douglas, The Civil War by Geoffrey Ward
“It matters not what way the Supreme Court may…decide; the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please….If the people are opposed to slavery, they will elect representatives…who will by unfriendly legislation effectually prevent the introduction of it into their midst…” Stephen Douglas, Freeport Doctrine, 1858 • “The time for compromise has now passed.” Jefferson Davis “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln, 1858
“The history of the …Republican party of the North is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of absolute tyranny over the slaveholding states…The South has compromised until she can compromise no farther.” New Orleans Newspaper Editorial
Famous Supreme Court case about a slave who sued for his freedom?
Name the political party that formed to oppose the growth of slavery?
This term describes the state of Kansas as popular sovereignty led to violence?
Name the government eventually formed by the seceded southern states?
Name two Congressmen involved in a beating in the US Capitol?
