1. Warm Up Activity
Analyze the TWO cartoons and follow the instructions to answer the prompt
Textbook:
AMSCO:

2. Warm Up Review List the parts of Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850.
What 4 territories had Popular Sovereignty by 1860?
What new political party was formed to opposed the expansion of slavery in the WEST?
What was the name of the land we acquired from Arizona to build a RR?
What did Wilmot’s Proviso say about the land we gained from Mexico?
Why was Kansas nicknames ‘Bleeding Kansas’?
What previous law did the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturn?
Why were so many Northerners against the Fugitive Slave Act?

3. The 1850s: The Road to Secession
Daily Objectives
Analyze the sectional tensions of the 1850’s that led to Southern Secession
Discuss key personalities that fueled sectionalism in the 1850s.

4. Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850
California statehood.
Southern “fire-eaters” threatening secession.
Fighting in western territories over Pop. Sov.
Underground RR & fugitive slave issues:
Personal liberty laws
Moral conviction that slavery was wrong

5. Compromise of 1850

6. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)
So this is the lady who started the Civil War Abraham Lincoln

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Sold 300,000 copies in the first year.
2 million in a decade!
Showed evils of slavery
No other American novel in history had such a political force!

8. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

9. Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)
“Bleeding Kansas”
Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)

10. Lecompton Constitution
Proslavery forces devised tricky document called Lecompton Constitution which would allow slavery in the state
Free-soilers were outraged and boycotted the polls and Lecompton passed
Buchanan supported Lecompton
Lecompton put back to popular vote to all people living in Kansas
Lecompton overwhelming defeated by Free Soilers
Kansas remained a territory

11. “The Crime Against Kansas”
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Abolitionist
Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)
Pro-Slavery

12. The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party]
Nativists.
Anti-Catholics.
Anti-immigrants.
1849  Secret Order of the Star-Spangled Banner created in NYC.

13. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854
Northern Whigs.
Northern Democrats.
Free-Soilers.
Know-Nothings.
Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

14. 1856 Presidential Election
√ James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Whig

15. 1856 Election Results

16. Dred Scott Decision Read the Case background and the Court’s decision
Answer the accompanying questions
Be prepared to discuss

17. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Chief Justice Taney Made the Important Verdicts:
African Americans are not citizens and therefore can not sue in the US courts
African Americans are private property and can be taken anywhere in US and are still slaves
Missouri Compromise line (36’30*) is unconstitutional because Congress can not restrict or ban slavery in territories

18. The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858
A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

19. Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine
Popular Sovereignty?
The Courts/Gov’t or the People?

20. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

21. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?
Mural in the Kansas Capitol building by John Steuart Curry (20c)
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre (Murder of ProSlavery Men)

22. Activity
Read the Primary Source Documents on John Brown and answer the questions

23. 1860 Presidential Election
√ Abraham Lincoln Republican
John Bell Constitutional Union
1860 Presidential Election
Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat

24. Republican Party Platform in 1860
Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers.
Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists].
Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest].
Internal improvements [for the West] at federal expense.
Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].

25. 1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!

26. Lincoln’s Election
-Lincoln wins election with no southern electoral votes
-Southern states secede in fear of gov’t where they have no voice
-S.C. first to secede, 6 others follow
- Confederate States of America formed before Lincoln takes office
-Jefferson Davis elected Confederate President

27. 1860
Election
Results

28. Crittenden Compromise: A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity
Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing-KY)
-South of 36’30* line Slavery was given Federal protection
-Future states come into Union as they choose with or without slavery

29. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

30. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

31. Homework Read Chapter 20 pp. 434-444 Complete the Chart
Answer the questions on the Ch Study Guide

32. Pro-Slavery Or Anti-Slavery??
Exit Practice
Harriet Stowe
Roger Taney
John Brown
Dred Scott
Lincoln
Zach Taylor
John Calhoun
Pro-Slavery Or Anti-Slavery??