1. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Outline
Dred Scott case, 1856
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Brown’s Raid, 1859
Election and Secession, 1860
Summary
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

2. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
8 Questions
Although Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln for the Senate in 1858, in another sense, Lincoln beat Douglas 16 years earlier.

3. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
''From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.''
Who said this? What year?
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

4. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
''From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.''
Abraham Lincoln, 1837
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

5. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Outline
Dred Scott case, 1856
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Brown’s Raid, 1859
Election and Secession, 1860
Summary
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

6. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Dred Scott
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

7. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
3 Questions for the Supreme Court
Can an African-American sue in federal court?
Did prolonged residence on free soil make Scott free?
Did Congress have the authority to create free territory at all?
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

8. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
3 Questions
Can an African-American sue
in federal court?
2. Did prolonged residence on
free soil make Scott free?
3. Did Congress have the
authority to create free
territory at all? No No No
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

9. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
“In the opinion of the court, . . .
the language used in the Declaration of Independence [“that all men are created equal”], show[s], that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves their descendants, whether
free or not, were included in the . . words used in that memorable instrument...

10. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
They [African-Americans] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order . . so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."

11. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

12. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Outline
Dred Scott case, 1856
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Brown’s Raid, 1859
Election and Secession, 1860
Summary
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

13. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

14. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
If the people of Kansas want a
slaveholding State, let them have it;
and if they want a Free State they
have a right to it; and it is not for the
people of Illinois, or Missouri, or New
York, or Kentucky, to complain,
whatever the decision of the people
of Kansas may be upon that point.
- S. Douglas, 1858 debate
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

15. . . . there is no reason in the world why
the negro is not entitled to all the
natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I hold that he is as much entitled to these
as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects---certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment.
But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own
hand earns, he is my equal and the equal
of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. "
- A. Lincoln, 1858 debate

16. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
8 Questions
Although Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln for the Senate in 1858, in another sense, Lincoln beat Douglas 16 years earlier.

17. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861

18. “Irrepressible Conflict”: 1856-1861
Outline
Dred Scott case, 1856
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Brown’s Raid, 1859
Election and Secession, 1860
Summary
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

19. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

21. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

22. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
John Brown's Last Prophecy 2nd, December, I, John Brown, am now quite certain that
the crimes of this guilty land will never
be purged away; but with Blood. I had as
I now think: vainly flattered myself that
without very much bloodshed; it might
be done .
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

23. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Outline
Dred Scott case, 1856
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Brown’s Raid, 1859
Election and Secession, 1860
Summary
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

24. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Lincoln Douglas Crittenden Bell
Republican N. Democrat S. Democrat Cnst. Union
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

25. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

26. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
. . .there still is no single good reason for precipitate action [secession]. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favoured land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.
- A. Lincoln, 1861 inaugural

27. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

28. Irrepressible Conflict: 1856-1861
Outline
Dred Scott case, 1856
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Brown’s Raid, 1859
Election and Secession, 1860
Summary
Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

29. Burns civil war episode 1
17:20 – 52:31 Fields/Foote, events to sumter
33:33 – 40:05 election through secession
40:05 – 52:31 confederacy to sumter
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?