Preview: The Divisive Politics of Slavery
Outcome How did the conflict over slavery in the territories lead to the Civil War?
Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser (1850)
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Written as protest to fugitive slave act
Stephen Douglas and “Popular Sovereignty” (1854)
Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner (1856)
“Bleeding Kansas” (1856)
The Republican Party, 1854
Dred Scott (1857)
John Brown and Harpers Ferry (1859)
The Election of 1860
The War Begins (April 1861)