More Causes of the Civil War Chapter 19 More Causes of the Civil War
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe Traveled to KY Lived in Ohio
Northern response Outrage Planned not to follow Fugitive Slave Act
Southern response Stowe is lying/uninformed.
“Bleeding Kansas” Kansas-Nebraska Act Popular sovereignty
Elections in KS Armed Missourians storm into KS Elect a pro-slavery legislature Free-soilers elect an anti-slavery legislature
2 functioning gov’ts in KS 1856: pro-slavery forces burned town of Lawrence, KS
John Brown Radical abolitionist Hears about Lawrence Pottawatomie Massacre
1856-1861 Basically a Civil War in Kansas
Violence in Congress Charles Sumner gives speech about KS Calls out Andrew Butler
Preston Brooks Beats Sumner with his cane
Election of 1856 Buchanan (D) Fremont (R) Fillmore (A)
American/Know-Nothing Party Anti-foreign Anti-Catholic “Americans Must Rule America”
Election of 1856
James Buchanan
Dred Scott Dred Scott v. Stanford March 6, 1857 Slave whose master took him to live in a free state Sued for his freedom
Ruling Blacks were not citizens, could not sue in court Federal gov’t couldn’t regulate slavery in territories Slaves are property
Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
Plan: Seize federal armory Cause a slave rebellion Start a new nation of freed slaves in the Appalachian Mountains
Actually… Captured arsenal Surrounded by Union Captured, arrested, convicted, executed
“If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments-I submit; so let it be done.”
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