1. Causes of the Civil War
US History

2. Discussion Question
How had the North and the South evolved into two distinct regions by 1848?

3. Background to the Crisis
Nullification
Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions
South Carolina Tariff Crisis
Sectionalism
Sectional Balance in Congress
Manifest Destiny

4. Missouri Compromise (1820)

5. Background to the Compromise of 1850
California Gold Rush (2)
Underground Railroad (SUS 4: 28:29-31:07)

6. Compromise of 1850 Terms of the Compromise (Clay)
California – Free State
Ends the balance of free and slave in the Senate
Popular Sovereignty in Utah & New Mexico
People in each territory will decide if the state will be free or slave
New Stricter Fugitive Slave Law
All people in the nation will be responsible for helping to capture escaped slaves (SUS 31:07 – 32:45)

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Story
Impact Domestically
Impact Abroad

8. Kansas Nebraska Act Kansas Nebraska Act
Proposed to have popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories
Cancels the Missouri Compromise
Bleeding Kansas
Birth of Republican Party
Set up to stop the spread of slavery

9. Trouble in Congress - 1856 Caning of Sumner Reaction from North
Reaction from South

10. Dred Scott v. Sanford Background:
Dred Scott was a slave who moved to free territory for while with his master and then returned to a slave state. When he returned to the South, he sued for his freedom.
Legal Question(s):
Is Dred Scott a slave or free?
Legal Decision:
A slave. Slaves are not citizens, but property.
Impact:
Congress cannot prohibit slavery in any territory.
Further divides the North and South in the late 1850s.

11. Harper’s Ferry (1859) (SUS4 36:47-40:54)
John Brown’s Plan
Outcome
Reaction

12. Election of 1860 (SUS4 40:54-45:10) Election of 1860
Split of Democrats (N and S)
N. Democrats – Stephen Douglas
S. Democrats – John Breckinridge
Republicans
Abe Lincoln – stop spread of slavery
Constitutional Union Party
John Bell – middle states afraid of the looming fight
Results

13. Secession (1860/1861) Secession – to leave the country
After Lincoln won the election, several states in the deep South secede from (leave) the United States
Felt their views were threatened
Were mad that Lincoln was elected without any southern votes
Not all slave states seceded

14. Key Terms Missouri Compromise popular sovereignty Underground Railroad
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
Caning of Sumner
Dred Scott
Harper’s Ferry
Abraham Lincoln
secession

15. TEA
Why did the South secede? T E (2-3 examples) A

16. Manifest Destiny/Expansion

17. California Gold Rush

18. California Gold Rush

19. Underground Railroad

20. Henry Clay

21. John Calhoun
“In that case California will become the test question. If you admit her under all the difficulties that oppose her admission, you compel us to infer that you intend to exclude us from the whole of the acquired Territories, with the intention of destroying irretrievably the equilibrium between the two sections. We should be blind not to perceive in that case that your real objects are power...”

22. Compromise of 1850

23. Fugitive Slave Act

24. Harriet Beecher Stowe

25. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

26. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In the course of the day, Tom was working with the woman who had been bought in the same lot with himself. She was evidently in a condition of great suffering and Tom often heard her praying, as she wavered and trembled, and seemed about to fall down. Tom silently, as he came near to her, transferred several handfuls of cotton from his own sack to hers. “Oh, don’t , don’t!” said the woman, looking surprised; “it’ll get you in trouble.” Just then Sambo came up. He seemed to have a special spite against this woman and flourishing his whip, said, in brutal, guttural tones, “What dis yer, Luce-follin’a?” and, with a word, kicking the women with his heavy cowhide shoe, he struck Tom across the face with his whip. Tom silently resumed his task; but the woman, before at the point of exhaustion fainted. “I’ll bring her to!” said the driver with a brutal grin. “I’ll give her something better than the camphire!” and taking his pin from his coat sleeve, he buried it into the head in her flesh. The woman groaned and half rose. “Get up you beast, and work, will yer, or I’ll show you a trick more!”

27. Kansas Nebraska Act

28. Reaction to Kansas Nebraska

29. The Republican Party
Firmly opposed the expansion of slavery into any of the territories.
Anti Slavery Whigs
Free Soil Democrats

30. Bleeding Kansas

31. Caning of Sumner

32. James Buchanan John Fremont

33. Dred Scott Roger Taney

34. Lincoln Douglas Debates - 1858

35. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

36. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

37. Stephen Douglas (N) John Breckenridge (S)

38. Constitutional Union Party

39. Republican Party Republican Platform
No extension of slavery into the territories

40. Secession