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Exploring Political Parties in the 1850s

Join your research group and discuss the US political parties in the 1840s and 1850s. Learn about their beliefs and the factors that led to the Civil War.

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Exploring Political Parties in the 1850s

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  1. Good morning! Find your group. Be ready for a quiz. You’ll need ½ sheet of paper.

  2. Good morning! Find your group. Be ready for a quiz. You’ll need ½ sheet of paper.

  3. Good morning! Find your group. Be ready for a quiz. You’ll need ½ sheet of paper.

  4. Good morning! Please sit with your research group. You’ll need your project chart, any notes you have, and your major themes sheet. Find a place in your notes for a brief activity. Label it, “Political Parties in the 1850s.”

  5. Political Parties in the 1850s • Discuss with your group and create a list of US political parties in the 1840s & 1850s. • List as many as you can, and identify any of their beliefs that you know.

  6. Why do we fight?Origins of the Civil War GQ#2 - Why did the Compromise of 1850 break down so quickly? GQ#3 - Why did the Republicans win the 1860 presidential election?

  7. Political Parties of the 1850s

  8. Political Parties through Maps

  9. Political Parties through Maps

  10. Political Parties through Maps

  11. Political Parties through Maps

  12. Political Parties through Maps1860

  13. Why do we fight?Origins of the Civil War GQ#2 - Why did the Compromise of 1850 break down so quickly? GQ#3 - Why did the Republicans win the 1860 presidential election?

  14. Compromiseof 1850

  15. Compromise of 1850 • CA a Free State • UT & NM Popular Sovereignty • TX Border Settlement • Slave Trade Banned in DC • Strict Fugitive Slave Law

  16. HarrietBeecherStowe 1811 - 1896 So this is the lady who started the Civil War.-- Abraham Lincoln

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

  18. Other Effects • Underground Railroad • Personal Liberty Laws • Riots & Fights • Anthony Burns • Slavery as a “positive good”

  19. Expansionist Young America in the 1850s Filibustering Expeditions

  20. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 Stephen Douglas Popular Sovereignty

  21. “Bleeding Kansas” Border “Ruffians”(pro-slavery Missourians)

  22. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?

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

  24. Paper 1 Practice – Birth of the Republican Party • Part B – What is the assertion? • The formation of the Republican Party caused a great threat to the party system. • What is the big message of each source? • Which sources support the assertion? • Which do not? • OMCL • Which are more reliable? Why?

  25. Rise of the 3rd Party System • Whigs falling apart… • Why?

  26. The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party] • 1849  Secret Order of the Star-Spangled Banner created in NYC. • Nativists. • Anti-Catholics. • Anti-immigrants. • Why didn’t they last?

  27. Birth of the Republican Party 1854 • Northern Whigs. • Northern Democrats. • Free-Soilers. • Know-Nothings. • Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. • Pro-business • Pro-tariff • National power over states • Internal improvements by national govt • No spread of slavery

  28. Signs of Sectionalism

  29. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

  30. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857 • Roger Taney • Decision • Effects • Reaction? • North? South? Others? • Douglas? Lincoln?

  31. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

  32. Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine How to balance Dred Scott with PopularSovereignty? …and tick off Southern Democrats

  33. John Brown’s Raidon Harper’s Ferry, 1859

  34. Vocab Review • First, use your brain. • Then, use your notes. • Then, use your group.

  35. Exit Ticket • Identify one thing you know from being in class today. • What would you still like to know about this unit about the Road to the Civil War?

  36. Good morning! • Please get out your First Four work. • You’ll also need your Major Themes sheet and any notes you have.

  37. 4 Minutes • First Four - 12/29/16 - Cartoon Analysis • Identify any characters & symbols. • What is the message? • How does this connect to our unit or guiding questions? End

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

  39. 1860 Election Results

  40. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

  41. How did the events of the 1850s impact sectional tensions and contribute to the outbreak of the Civil War? • Groups of 3-4 – your table • Order, rank, justify • Math & History? • Class website – trotteraice.wordpress.com • Unit 1 sub-tab – Evaluating Causes 11/29

  42. Crittenden Compromise:A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity Senator John J. Crittenden(Know-Nothing-KY)

  43. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

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