1. QW Write down everything you know about the American Civil War.

2. The Divisive Politics of Slavery Ch. 4.1

4. Popular sovereignty Missouri Compromise 1820 The Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

5. “Bleeding Kansas” Tensions in Kansas and Nebraska -Kansas-Nebraska territory lay north of the Missouri Compromise line of 36 30’ -Split Nebraska and Kansas as two territories that would use popular sov. To decide slave state or not -Kansas-Nebraska Act: -Battles erupted for 10 years between Missouri and Kansas “Bleeding Kansas”

6. Underground Railroad Secret system of helping slaves flee to freedom Fredrick Douglass Wm. Lloyd Garrison Harriet Tubman Harriet Beecher Stowe

7. Harriet Tubman Born a slave in Maryland 1820 Ran away to Philadelphia in 1849 (after owners death) Conductor on the routes Hid fugitives slaves and led them to “stations”

8. Dred Scott Master took Scott into free territory (WI) -Master dies -Scott sues for freedom Supreme Court decision (judicial review) 1)No legal status to sue in federal court – no a citizen of the U.S. (never will be) 2)5 th Am – protects property (slaves) – territories cannot deprive people of their property

9. Stephen Douglas 1858 U. S. Senate race in IL. Douglas (D) & Lincoln (R) Lincoln-Douglas Debates Neither wanted slavery in the territories Disagreed on how to keep it out Douglas = popular sovereignty Lincoln = slavery was immoral, but didn’t expect people to give up their slaves -Must be an amendment to the Constitution -Popular sovereignty is an empty phrase Could territories vote no slavery before they became a state? Dred Scott Case said “NO” Stephen Douglas wins Senate race

10. Abraham Lincoln Runs for President in 1860 & WINS! Less than 40% of the popular vote What do Southern States do when Lincoln is elected? Why?

11. confederacy South felt they lost their political voice States began to leave the U.S. – SC, MISS., AL, FL, Georgia, Louisiana and TX Next, Virginia, Arkansas, NC and Tennessee. The Confederate States of America is formed But, what slave states do not join the Confederacy?

12. secession

13. Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederacy

14. Causes of Civil War 1)All of the Compromises from the 3/5 compromise, MO Compromise to Compromise of 1850 2)Kansas-Nebraska Act 3)Abolitionists and the Underground RR 4)Dred Scott Case 5)Harpers Ferry 6)Election of 1860 (Lincoln won the Presidency) 7)*The South seceded from the Union (broke away from the U.S. & made their own country)