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Chapter 15 Sections 1,2, and 3

Chapter 15 Sections 1,2, and 3. Laws and Events Leading to the Civil War. LETS REVIE W. John C. Calhoun. Daniel Webster. 1. Sectionalist. 2. Westerner. 3. Northerner. 4. Southerner. Henry Clay. 5. Pro Internal Improvements. 6. Pro National Bank. 7. Pro Tariffs. 8. Pro Expansion.

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Chapter 15 Sections 1,2, and 3

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  1. Chapter 15 Sections 1,2, and 3 Laws and Events Leading to the Civil War.

  2. LETS REVIEW John C. Calhoun Daniel Webster 1. Sectionalist 2. Westerner 3. Northerner 4. Southerner Henry Clay 5. Pro Internal Improvements 6. Pro National Bank 7. Pro Tariffs 8. ProExpansion 9. Pro Slavery 10. Anti Tariffs 3 WAY VENN DIAGRAM

  3. Missouri Compromise Let’s Compromise Let Us Remember, What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?

  4. Compromise of 1850 Let’s Compromise Again! The Following Five Items Voted on Separately Become Know as the Compromise of 1850: California will enter as a FREE STATE. New Mexico will have no restrictions on Slavery. New Mexico / Texas Boundary will favor New Mexico. (Texas get smaller, New Mexico grows.) Slave TRADE in Washington D.C. is abolished. Fugitive Slave Law is Passed.

  5. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 • Required All Citizens of The United States to help catch runaway slaves. Would you follow this law?

  6. Let the People Decide Kansas Nebraska Act LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE = Popular Sovereignty

  7. Border Ruffians Rough slave supporters come in an harass people of Kansas to become a slave state. On the morning of May 21, 1856 an armed force of as many as 800 men descended upon the newly formed town of Lawrence in the Territory of Kansas and proceeded to systematically destroy it. With this act, the town of Lawrence became the first casualty in America's Civil War that would officially be declared five years later.

  8. John Brown Strikes “ Strike Terror in the Hears of the Pro-Slavery People.” -John Brown FOR REVENGE ABOLITIONIST JOHN BROWN STRIKES MISSOURI AND KILLS 5 SUPPORTERS OF SLAVERY.

  9. BLEEDING KANSAS • Newspapers begin to refer to the situation in Kansas as “Bleeding Kansas” or the Civil War in Kansas. • 1,300 Federal Troops are sent in to bring peace.

  10. The Real Jayhawks Not a Real Jayhawk A Real Kansas Jayhawk

  11. VIOLENCE IN THE SENATE! Abolitionist and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner is viciously attacked on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Southern Representative Preston Brooks, who felt his family had been insulted by Charles Sumner.

  12. Election of 1856 • Republican: John C. Fremont: “Free Soil, Free Speech and Fremont!” • Democrats: James Buchanan • American Party: Millard Fillmore • BUCHANAN WINS.

  13. Dred Scott Bought in Missouri by Army Officer. Moved to Illinois (Free State) Moved to Wisconsin (Free State) Moved back to Missouri… Does Dred Scott deserve his freedom because he spent 17 years in free states?

  14. Dred Scott Decision Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said: Scott is property, not a citizen therefore he has no legal basis to bring a lawsuit. States or Federal government cannot take people’s PROPERTY away without due process of law. Congress cannot ban slavery as it is Constitutional. …IN SHORT Slavery is Constitutional. NOT BY THE SUPREME COURT!

  15. Lincoln and DouglassCongressional Debates of 1858 Slavery is wrong but there is no easy way of eliminating it. The real goal is to stop the spread of slavery. I dislike slavery but it is best resolved by the will of the people in each state. Let Popular Sovereignty decide the issue.

  16. Lincoln Douglass Debates • Met 7 Times between August and October of 1858. • Lincoln loses the election but gains a national reputation. • “The real issue is between men who think slavery is wrong and those who do not think it wrong. The Republicans think it wrong.”

  17. Harper’s Ferry Harper’s Ferry, Virginia: Site of a Military Arsenal

  18. Raid on Harper’s Ferry • On October 16, 1859 John Brown and 18 men capture the Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry. • He hoped to start a Slave Rebellion. It did not. • Colonel Robert E. Lee U.S. Army captured Brown and his men . • Brown was hung, he was considered to be a martyr for the cause of Abolition.

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