The Coming of the Civil War

MexicanWar( )

Missouri Compromise (1820) Henry Clay

Texas, Oregon, & the Gadsden Purchase

David Wilmot

John C. Calhoun John C. Calhoun Calhoun Resolutions Calhoun Resolutions

Zachary Taylor, 1848

Stephen Douglas “The Little Giant”

Millard Fillmore

Compromise of 1850

Franklin Pierce, 1852

Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)

Voting on the Kansas Nebraska Act US House—1854 Total Votes Total Votes 113 In favor 100 Against Whigs Democrats Whigs Democrats For AgainstFor Against North South Total South 69 for 9 against Total South 69 for 9 against Total North 44 for 91 against (only 7 of these 44 are re-elected) Total North 44 for 91 against (only 7 of these 44 are re-elected)

“Slave Power” Conspiracy

The Republican Party Candidates, 1856 “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, Fremont”

1856 Electoral Vote

“Bleeding Kansas”

Voting in Kansas, 1855 Eligible Voters approx. 3,000 Free Soil Votes 791 Proslavery Votes ??? ??? Judged fraudulent

Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts “The Crime Against Kansas” (May 1856)

Sumner Brooks Affair, 1856

Dred Scott, Slave Chief Justice Roger Taney

Abraham Lincoln, 1858 “... when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places, and by different workmen -- Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance; and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill... and not a piece too many or too few, -- not omitting even the scaffolding, -- or if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in -- in such a case we feel it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James, all understood one another from the beginning and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn before the first blow was struck.” “... when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places, and by different workmen -- Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance; and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill... and not a piece too many or too few, -- not omitting even the scaffolding, -- or if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in -- in such a case we feel it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James, all understood one another from the beginning and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn before the first blow was struck.”

Fire Eaters

Fugitive Slave Handbills

Anthony Burns It costs over It costs over $40,000 to return Anthony Burns to slavery.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

John Brown

Democrats 1860

Abraham Lincoln William Seward

Constitutional Union Party John Bell

1860 Election

Spelling/Vocabulary Lesson Secede—to withdraw from an organization, political entity or Union. Secede—to withdraw from an organization, political entity or Union. Secession—the act of withdrawing. Secession—the act of withdrawing. Succeed—to accomplish something desired or intended. Succeed—to accomplish something desired or intended. “Seceed” is not a word “Seceed” is not a word In a sentence, “Fire Eaters hoped that southerners would succeed when they seceded from the Union.” In a sentence, “Fire Eaters hoped that southerners would succeed when they seceded from the Union.”

Jefferson Davis

Ft. Sumter