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1 Division -- The Road to War
Quick Introduction

2 One who wants to end ___________
Abolitionist

3 Missouri Compromise Keep the balance!
Drew an east-west line through the Louisiana Purchase Slavery allowed below the line Slavery prohibited above the line, except in Missouri Keep the balance! Missouri Compromise

4 Compromise of 1850 California would be admitted as a free state
Southern territories acquired from Mexico would decide on their own “When the residents of a territory vote to decide on the issue of slavery for themselves” = popular sovereignty Which side is happy about this? Compromise of 1850

5 Fugitive Slave Law Also a part of the Compromise of 1850
Citizens of the United States are responsible for catching and turning in runaway slaves Fugitive Slave Law

6 Kansas Nebraska Act Repealed the Missouri Compromise line
Gave Kansas and Nebraska the right of popular sovereignty Led to Bleeding Kansas = fighting over slavery Leads to a new political party= the Republican Party Kansas Nebraska Act

7 William Lloyd Garrison
Led the Abolitionist movement Published the Liberator-Abolitionist newsletter Viewed the institution of slavery as a violation of Christian principles and argued for its abolition William Lloyd Garrison

8 Former slave – perhaps the most respected leader of abolitionist movement
Published the North Star – abolitionist newspaper Traveled the country and spoke against slavery Frederick Douglass

9 Harriett Beecher Stowe
Wife of New England clergyman Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriett Beecher Stowe

10 Best-selling novel about the horrors of slavery
"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."  Uncle Tom’s Cabin

11 Slave Revolts Increased in the 1800s
Nat Turner – Southampton Va, killed whites Gabriel Prosser- Richmond plot Fed white Southerner’s fears about slave rebellions and led to harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves Southerners who favored abolition were intimidated into silence Slave Revolts

12 Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) A slave who sues for his freedom!
Supreme Court rules that slaves are not citizens… …and that Congress can not outlaw slavery in any territory. Overturns the MO Compromise Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

13 “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Lincoln is elected with NO support from the South Believes the Union should stay intact South Carolina secedes Secede – to withdraw from , to leave the Union (noun = secession) Election of Lincoln (1860)

14 Causes of the Civil War - Summary
-Northern Abolitionists v. Southern defenders of slavery -Sectional debate over slavery, extension of slavery in the territories, and the nature of the Union (state’s rights) Causes of the Civil War - Summary

15 Causes of the War - Summary
-Failed compromises over slavery in the territories -U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott Case -Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe -Ineffective presidential leadership in the 1850s Causes of the War - Summary

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