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Opening March 11th

Opening March 11th. TOC: Road to the Civil Road History Investigation The first cracks HW Summary Questions Abolitionists Notes Compromise of 1850 History Alive Reading Comp of 1850 HW reading 5 point Compromise Fugitive Slave Act Notes Straws Timeline (Big Sheet of Paper)

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Opening March 11th

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  1. Opening March 11th TOC: Road to the Civil Road History Investigation The first cracks HW Summary Questions Abolitionists Notes Compromise of 1850 History Alive Reading Comp of 1850 HW reading 5 point Compromise Fugitive Slave Act Notes Straws Timeline (Big Sheet of Paper) Final Straw #3: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Notes on Straws #4 and #5 • 1. Copy Down Homework • 2. Get out Harriet Beecher Stowe HW • 3. Copy Table of Contents • Current Events

  2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Effect in the North and South • Sells 300,000 in the first yr; 2 million in the the 1850s (In the North and the South) • South: Moral Outrage : fiction, made up…. • Someone send’s Stowe a slave ear • Write their own literature to respond “Foul imagination which could invent such scenes” - Louisa McCord (famous Southern Writer)

  3. Uncle Tom’s Cabin • “...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.” • ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin • Empathy • The ability to understand and share the feelings of another • Melodrama- • A dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events • EX. The Notebook

  4. Impact Continued… • "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” • 1862: Lincoln meets Harriet Stowe in the White House

  5. Opening March 12th TOC: Road to the Civil Road History Investigation The first cracks HW Summary Questions Abolitionists Notes Compromise of 1850 History Alive Reading Comp of 1850 HW reading 5 point Compromise Fugitive Slave Act Notes Straws Timeline (Big Sheet of Paper) Final Straw #3: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Notes on Straws #4 and #5 • 1. Copy Down Homework • 2. Get out Straw notes from yesterday • 3. Copy Table of Contents • Current Events

  6. Kansas Nebraska Act: 1854Proposal and Bill • Stephen Douglas needs a railroad in the North Western Territory (Kansas) • Makes a deal with Southern Democrats • Popular Sovereignty- people decide the free/slave state • Agreement NULLIFIES (cancels) the Missouri Comp

  7. Kansas-Nebraska Act: Effects • Pro-slavery settlers (FROM MISSOURI) vote in Kansas elections • Voter fraud -illegal interference with the process of an election • Pro-Slavery government set up in TOPEKA (not recognized by the US ) • Abolitionist set up EMIGRANT AID COMPANY and set up headquarters in LAWRENCE Two opposing groups set up 30 miles From each other!

  8. The Offenses Against Slave Property Act • "Decoying" any slave away from his owner punishable by death. • Aiding or assisting decoying a slave punishable by death. • Bringing decoyed slaves into Kansas Territory from any other state or territory punishable by death. • Raising a rebellion or insurrection among slaves, free negroes or mulattoes punishable by death. • Aiding or assisting in any such rebellion or insurrection punishable by death. • Resisting any officer attempting to arrest a slave punishable by two years at hard labor. • Printing or publishing any book, pamphlet, etc. calculated to produce "dangerous disaffection" among slaves punishable by five years at hard labor. • Speaking or writing that "persons have not the right to hold slaves in this Territory" punishable by two years at hard labor. [1855 Statutes, Chapter 151]

  9. In other statutes, the Bogus Legislature: • Required an oath from every officer, elected or appointed, to support the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law. [1855 Statutes, 438] • Disqualified any person opposed to slavery as a juror. [1855 Statutes, 377, 378] • Required an oath from every attorney to support the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law. [1855 Statutes, 118] • Made homicide excusable when correcting a slave • Made petit larceny and misdemeanors committed by slaves punishable by whipping. [1855 Statutes, 252 ff] • Disallowed the writ of habeas corpus to slaves charged with crimes. [1855 Statutes, 345] • Made wearing ball and chain mandatory for all prisoners serving hard labor sentences. [1855 Statutes, 146]

  10. Reaction from the Lawrence Lawrence Kansas Tribune
September 15, 1855 Editor John Speer defied the Bogus Legislature by directly violating the "Gag Law" in its exact words.

  11. Bleeding Kansas • Free-soilers (anti-blacks) –request weapons to defend themselves • Beecher’s Bibles • Sack of Lawrence • 800 Pro-Slavery activist burn and plunder • Destroy the printing press • Pottawatomie Massacre • John Brown & 4 sons and 3 others • Broad sword and murder of 5 Pro Slavery Men The Lawrence, Kansas Raid as illustrated in Harper's Weekly, September, 1863.

  12. Violence in the Senate: May 22 1856 • Senator Charles Sumner delivers speech “Crimes Against Kansas” • Insults SC senator Andrew Pickens Butler • Nephew Rep. Preston Brooks has to avenge is Uncle • Canes Sen. Sumner till he becomes unconscious Sen. Andrew Pickens Butler Sen. Charles Sumner Representative Preston Brooks

  13. Reaction to the Caning • End of an era of compromise and • Southerners send more canes! • Northerners • Outraged: “illustration of southern spirit

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