1. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The 1850s:
Road to
Secession
By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850
California statehood.
Southern “fire-eaters” threatening secession.
Underground RR & fugitive slave issues:
Personal liberty laws
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

3. Compromise of 1850

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

5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Sold 300,000 copies in the first year.
2 million in a decade!

6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852

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

8. 1852 Presidential Election
√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil

9. 1852 Election Results

10. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

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

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

13. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?
Mural in the Kansas Capitol building by John Steuart Curry (20c)

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

15. 1856 Presidential Election
√ James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Whig

16. 1856 Election Results

17. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

18. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857 Slaves are not citizens
Could not legally sue in court
Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
Congress had no power to ban slavery from a territory