1. The 1850s:
Road to
Secession

2. Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850
California statehood
Underground RR & fugitive slave issues

3. Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.

6. Compromise of 1850 California a free state
No more slave trade in Washington D.C.
Stricter Fugitive Slave Law
Popular Sovereignty to determine slavery in the Mexican Cession

8. A free California meant more free states

9. No more slave trade in Washington DC

10. A stricter Fugitive Slave Law

11. John C. Calhoun
A prominent politician and southerner he opposed the Compromise of 1850
States should decide for themselves to be slave or free

12. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)
So this is the lady who started the Civil War Abraham Lincoln

13. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Sold 300,000 copies in the first year.
2 million in a decade!

14. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

15. Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)
“Bleeding Kansas”
Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)

16. http://www. youtube. com/watch
(6:03 min)

17. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?
Mural in the Kansas Capitol building by John Steuart Curry (20c)

18. Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

19. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

20. The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858
A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

22. Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine
Popular Sovereignty should settle slavery issue!

23. I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. (1861)

24. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859
(7:07 min)

25. 1860 Presidential Election
√ Abraham Lincoln Republican
John Bell Constitutional Union
1860 Presidential Election
Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat

26. Republican Party Platform in 1860
Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers]

27. 1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!

28. 1860
Election
Results

29. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

30. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861