Divisive Politics of Slavery How do the North & South differ on Slavery?

Life in the Antebellum South 1.Agricultural w/ slow industrialization and poor transportation 2. See slavery as a way of life that must continue 1.Primarily manufacturing, fully industrialized, great transp. 2. Abolitionists want to see an end to slavery Life in Northern States

Another Compromise  New states ready to enter union, North says CA must be free South says it should vote  Henry Clay proposes Compromise of 1850  1) California will be a free state, New Mexico (below 36/30) & Utah (above 36/30) can vote on slavery (popular sovereignty)  2) Stronger fugitive slave laws will be written

Fighting Against Slavery  Virginian slave Nat Turner rebels against slave owners, escapes but is later caught (inspires others to rebel)  Hoping to start a slave revolt, John Brown tries to raid weapons depot at Harper’s Ferry, VA but fails  Many slaves escape south via a network of escape routes called Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman leads “conductors”

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852  Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel exposed horrors of slavery and its not just a political issue, but also a moral issue

Kansas-Nebraska Act  Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) will allow popular sovereignty on slavery in each (despite being above 36/30)  Violence breaks out as northerners and southerners race to settle the new territories

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857  Slave named Dred Scott argues that he & his owner lived in free territories and therefore had been illegally enslaved  Supreme Court ruled against Scott saying he was “property,” which is protected by 5 th Amendment

Lincoln vs. Douglas  Abraham Lincoln of new Republican Party defeats Democrat Stephen Douglas in Illinois Senate  Lincoln runs on Abolitionist platform, two years later wins Presidency  Lincoln says he will allow slavery to continue but will not allow its expansion into new states, South threatens to secede from the union