1. The Nation Breaking Apart
Chapter 15
The Nation Breaking Apart

2. Compromise of 1850
1) To please the North, California would be admitted as a free state, and the slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.

3. 2) To please the South, Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico, and Congress would pass a stronger law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. (Fugitive Slave Act)

5. Stephen A. Douglas believed that people of each territory should decide whether or not to allow slavery.

6. Fugitive Slave Act

7. Harriet Beecher Stowe was outraged when she heard about the part in the Compromise that would help slaveholders recapture slaves.

8. Her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin dramatically portrayed the moral issues of slavery.

9. The Missouri Compromise was replaced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Missouri Compromise was replaced by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This bill would allow slavery to be voted on by the people in those territories.

11. Thousands of proslavery and antislavery settles rushed into Kansas and voted on the issue. Many non-residents from Missouri came to Kansas and voted illegally.

12. Extreme abolitionist John Brown seeking revenge from proslavery tactics, was responsible for murdering five people.

13. Lincoln Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln running against Douglas for the Illinois Senate, believed that slavery should not expand into the territories.

14. Lincoln will then win the Presidential election of 1860…

15. …causing the southern states to secede from the Union; the United States.

16. In early February 1861, they will form the Confederate States of America.

17. They will name Jefferson Davis as their President.