1. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The 1850s:
Road to
Secession
By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Missouri Compromise (1820)

3. Compromise of 1850

4. Henry Clay – “The Great Compromiser”

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

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

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852

8. The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party]
Nativists.
Anti-Catholics.
Anti-immigrants.
1849  Secret Order of the Star-Spangled Banner created in NYC.

9. 1852 Presidential Election
√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil

10. 1852 Election Results

11. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854… popular sovereignty

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

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

14. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?
Pottawattomie Massacre… Bleeding Kansas

15. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854
Industri-alists
Northern Demo-crats
Republican Party
Know-Nothings
Northern Whigs
Free-Soilers

16. 1856 Presidential Election
√ James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Whig/Know-Nothing

17. 1856 Election Results

18. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
“No rights that a white man is bound to respect”
No right to sue in court
Dred Scott lost the case

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

20. Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine
Popular Sovereignty?

21. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

22. 1860 Presidential Election
√ Abraham Lincoln Republican
John Bell Constitutional Union
1860 Presidential Election
Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat

23. 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] at federal expense.
Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].

24. 1860 Election: 3 “Outs” & 1 ”Run!”

25. 1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!

26. 1860
Election
Results

27. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

28. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

29. Civil War…