1. Mr. Buttell CBHS AMH Honors
A Dividing Nation:
Causes of
The
Civil War
Mr. Buttell CBHS AMH Honors

2. Missouri Compromise, 1820
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Declared that all territory north of 36°30" would become free states, and all territory south of that latitude would become slave states.

3. Henry Clay
Clay helped heal the North/South rift by aiding passage of the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, which served to delay the Civil War.

4. Free Soil Party WHY? Free Soil! Free Speech! Free Labor! Free Men!
“Barnburners” – discontented northern Democrats.
Anti-slave members of the Liberty and Whig Parties.
Opposition to the extension of slavery in the new territories!
WHY?

5. Mexican-American War & Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848
Mexico gave up claims to Texas above the Rio Grande River.
Mexico gave the U. S., California and New Mexico.
U. S. gave Mexico $15,000,000 and agreed to pay the claims of American citizens against Mexico (over $3,500,000).

6. The Mexican Cession

7. GOLD! At Sutter’s Mill, 1848
John A. Sutter

8. California Gold Rush, 1849
49er’s

9. Compromise of 1850 Admitted California as a free state
Organized Utah and N.M. without restrictions on slavery
Adjusted the Texas/N.M. border
Abolished slave trade in D.C.
Established tougher fugitive slave laws.
Its passage was hailed as a solution to the threat of national division.

10. Compromise of 1850

11. 1852 Election Results

12. Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman main conductor
Freed over 300 slaves through 19 different trips including her own parents
Many went to Canada but most stayed in the North becoming abolitionists

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

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

15. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

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

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

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

19. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

20. “The Crime Against Kansas”
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

21. 1860 Presidential Election
√ Abraham Lincoln Republican
John Bell Constitutional Union
1860 Presidential Election
Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat

22. Republican Party Platform in 1860
Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers.
Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists].
No decline 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].

23. 1860
Election
Results

24. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860