1. Passions Ignite

2. Douglas (Democrat) – Incumbent
Lincoln (Republican) – Challenger
At this time Senators were elected by state legislatures

4. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Race for Illinois Senate
Douglas – Popular Sovereignty
Lincoln – Slavery was a moral, social, and political wrong
Publicly was not in favor of black and white equality

5. Douglas re-elected
Brings Lincoln national exposure
Sets match-up for 1860 Presidential Election
Douglas wins battle but loses the war

6. John Brown

7. Raid on Harpers Ferry Setting: Virginia (1859) – Now West Virginia
People: Brown leads a group of black and white men (“Army of Liberation”)
Resources: Brown secretly financially backed by Northern abolitionists.

8. Plan:
Seize federal arsenal (weapons)
Distribute captured weapons to slaves
Start slave uprising

9. What Happened? Brown captured slave owners
No slaves came forward to fight
Colonel Robert E. Lee and U.S. Marines capture Brown
Brown tried for treason and hanged

10. Brown and men took refuge in this engine house

11. What impact did it have on North/South relations?

12. John Brown facts for Obituary
May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859
Born in Torrington, Connecticut
Children -20 (11 survived to adulthood)
Survived by wife :Mary Ann
Buried on the John Brown farm in North Elba, New York