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Movement toward war

Movement toward war. Influences. Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Written as a response to the Fugitive Slave Law. Energized Northern sympathies for the plight of the slaves. Huge influence on the outcome of the war. . Hinton R. Helper The Impending Crisis of the South

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Movement toward war

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  1. Movement toward war

  2. Influences Harriet Beecher Stowe • Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Written as a response to the Fugitive Slave Law. • Energized Northern sympathies for the plight of the slaves. • Huge influence on the outcome of the war.

  3. Hinton R. Helper • The Impending Crisis of the South • Viewed slavery as hurting nonslaveholding whites. • Added fuel to the fire. John Brown • Fanatical abolitionist

  4. Sumner-Brooks Fight • Senators. Sumner-Mass. Brooks-SC. • Sumner was an abolitionist who made disparaging remarks about Senator Butler of South Carolina. • Brooks responds by beating him with a cane in the middle of the Senate.

  5. Election of 1856 • Democrat James Buchanan v. • Republican John C. Fremont • Buchanan wins relatively easily 174-114 • Last Democrat to be pres. until 1884 • Only president never to be married

  6. Bleeding Kansas • Failure of popular sovereignty. • Groups vied for control of the state. • New England Emigrant Aid Company. Sent abolitionists to Kansas to thwart the Southerners. • First territorial legislature. “border ruffians” from Missouri. Bloodshed, separate gov’ts, etc.

  7. Lecompton Constitution • Attempt by Southern sympathizers to permanently establish slavery in Kansas. • Supported by President Buchanan. • Opposed by Stephen Douglas. Fought for true popular sovereignty. • This episode resulting into the split of the democratic party.

  8. Dred Scott • Supreme Court decision. March 1857. • Did residency in a free state give Scott the right to his freedom? • Slaves had no rights under the Constitution. • Slaves were property and could be taken into any territory. • Congress had no power to ban slavery in the territories.

  9. Things add up • Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. • Territorial legislatures were themselves powerless to ban slavery. Rights of personal property guaranteed by the 5th Amendment take precedence.

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