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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 13.4 Continental Expansion through 1853 The Free Soil Appeal – i.e. the “Free Labor Ideology”
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Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850 Underground RR & fugitive slave issues: Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) Personal liberty laws Underground RR & fugitive slave issues: Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) Personal liberty laws
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Compromise of 1850
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Sold 300,000 copies in the first year. 2 million in a decade! Sold 300,000 copies in the first year. 2 million in a decade!
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1852 Presidential Election √ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil
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1852 Election Results
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Pierce and the Ostend Manifesto Desire for Cuba (as slave state) Enraged North Desire for Cuba (as slave state) Enraged North 1854 Intended to be classified – NY newspaper published it.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
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Railroad Politics – More Sectionalism!!!
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The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party] Nativists. Anti-Catholics. Anti-immigrants. Nativists. Anti-Catholics. Anti-immigrants. 1849 Secret Order of the Star-Spangled Banner created in NYC.
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Birth of the Republican Party, 1854 Northern Whigs. Northern Democrats. Free-Soilers. Know-Nothings. Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Northern Whigs. Northern Democrats. Free-Soilers. Know-Nothings. Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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“Bleeding Kansas” Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)
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“The Crime Against Kansas” Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)
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John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr? Mural in the Kansas Capitol building by John Steuart Curry (20 c )
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1856 Presidential Election √ James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Whig
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1856 Election Results
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Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
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The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand. A House divided against itself, cannot stand.
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John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company An 1835 painting of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry
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1860 Presidential Election √ Abraham Lincoln Republican John Bell Constitutional Union Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat
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Republican Party Platform in 1860 Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers.] Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists]. No abridgment of rights for immigrants [a disappointment for the “Know-Nothings”]. Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest]. Internal improvements [for the West and those moving west] at federal expense. Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers]. Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers.] Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists]. No abridgment of rights for immigrants [a disappointment for the “Know-Nothings”]. Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest]. Internal improvements [for the West and those moving west] at federal expense. Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].
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1860 Election Results 1860 Election Results
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln
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Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860
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Crittenden Compromise: A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing-KY)
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Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861
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