1. Lesson 1

2. 8
A . SAS .
Assassinate (a sas in eight)

3. Bleeding Kansas Recall: 1x necessary precondition 1x developing cause
The trigger cause
1X fact about what happened during bleeding Kansas

4. By the end of this lesson everybody will be able to…
Outline the key chronology from
Explain the reasons why the Republican party emerged
Judge and justify which reason was the most important

5. ‘The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the most important reason for the rise of the Republican Party by 1858.’ Assess the validity of this view

6. Potential reasons for the rise of the Republican Party by 1858
‘The Kansas Nebraska Act was the most important reason for the rise of the Republican Party by ’ Assess the validity of this view
Kansas Nebraska Act
Collapse of the Whigs
Failure of the Know Nothings
Dred Scott case
Lincoln-Douglas debates

8. Introduction
‘The Kansas Nebraska Act was the most important reason for the rise of the Republican Party by ’ Assess the validity of this view
Definition(s)
Criteria
Judgement
Conclusion
Judgement
Substantiation (backing up the judgement)

9. Lesson 2

10. By the end of this lesson everybody will be able to…
Describe the election of 1856
Explain the reasons why the Republican party emerged
Judge and justify which reason was the most important

11. Rise of the Republican Party
POINT
EVIDENCE
EXPLAIN
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Collapse of the Whigs
Know Nothing’s mistakes
Beating of Sumner
Get students to put three on one side of A3 and 3 on the other side
Dred Scott
Lincoln Douglas Debates

12. KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT EVIDENCE
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by introducing popular sovereignty
Divided the Nebraska territory into two (Kansas and Nebraska)
Led to a ‘hell of a storm’
Evidence of a slave conspiracy theory to the North
Southerners had been apathetic, but it became a symbol of Southern honour
Splinters the Know Nothings in 1856
EXPLAIN
Catalysed the emergence of the Republican party (name came out of a anti-Nebraska meeting in New Hampshire)
Kansas-Nebraska Act meant that Northerners wanted a party that was anti-slavery

13. COLLPASE OF THE WHIGS EVIDENCE
Seen as a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (set southern against the northern)
However, state/local elections in 1853 were a disaster for northern Whigs
Did not deal with Catholics (fear of a Papal plot in protestant America)
1852 election the Whigs were pro-Catholic (failed to get their votes)
Did not deal with immigration (associated with increased crime and welfare costs)
EXPLAIN
Northern dissatisfaction = they began to look to new parties to represent their views.
Interestingly, it does not appear to be down to sectional conflict

14. FAILURE OF THE KNOW NOTHINGS
EVIDENCE
Concerns about Catholics and immigration led to their rise
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act helped the Know Nothings – 63% of the vote in Massachusetts
Know Nothings did not need to compete with the Republicans
Drop their anti-Kansas-Nebraska position and lose the support of Northerners
Decline in immigration affected nativism
Failure to make good of their campaigns in the legislature (do nothing and know nothing)
Attracted old guard politicians – who them Know Nothings had set up to purge
Nathaniel Banks (ex-Know Nothing) became a Republican and Speaker of the House
Chose Fillmore as their candidate in 1856 Presidential election (had supported FSA)
EXPLAIN
Know Nothings lost their status as an opposition party to the Democrats
Only other alternative is the Republican party

15. BLEEDING SUMNER EVIDENCE May 1856 Congress
Sumner made a speech in Congress where he attached Southern Senator Butler
Congressman Preston Brooks entered the Senate and beat Sumner with his cane
The cane was shattered in the process… Southerners set him a lot of new ones
EXPLAIN
For many northerners this was evidence of slave power at work – using force to silence free speech
Arguable that there was more outrage than there was the Bleeding Kansas

16. DRED SCOTT
EVIDENCE
Scott accompanied his owner to Illinois, then Wisconsin before returning to Missouri
1840’s Scott goes to the Missouri courts to sue for his freedom (resided in a free state)
Reaches the Supreme Court
They decided that Scott could not sue for his freedom (no equal rights); Scott’s stays in Illinois and Wisconsin did not make him free – the Missouri Compromise was illegal; US citizens had a right to take their ‘property’ into the territories
President Buchanan claimed that he knew nothing of the ruling – but he did
EXPLAIN
Further proof of a slave conspiracy theory between the President, SC and Democrats
Seen as an attempt to undermine the Republican party

17. LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES
EVIDENCE
1858 mid-term elections (Douglas vs. Lincoln for Senator of Illinois)
7x open air debates which drew vast crowds
Debates largely confined to slavery, race and slave expansion
Both consider blacks to be inferior
Douglas never said that slavery was morally wrong
Lincoln wins but Douglas was appointed Senator
EXPLAIN
Lincoln emerged as a Republican spokesman of national stature
Mentions of Lincoln being a Republican president

18. pp.72-73 Raw votes Percentage Electoral college votes
Who was nominated as presidential candidate by each party and why
1856 campaign
1856 result
Raw votes
Percentage
Electoral college votes

19. Was the 1856 election a defeat or victory for the Republican party?