1. More Causes of the Civil War
Chapter 19
More Causes of the Civil War

2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

3. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Traveled to KY
Lived in Ohio

4. Northern response
Outrage
Planned not to follow Fugitive Slave Act

5. Southern response
Stowe is lying/uninformed.

6. “Bleeding Kansas”
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty

7. Elections in KS Armed Missourians storm into KS
Elect a pro-slavery legislature
Free-soilers elect an anti-slavery legislature

8. 2 functioning gov’ts in KS
1856: pro-slavery forces burned town of Lawrence, KS

9. John Brown Radical abolitionist Hears about Lawrence
Pottawatomie Massacre

10.
Basically a Civil War in Kansas

11. Violence in Congress Charles Sumner gives speech about KS
Calls out Andrew Butler

12. Preston Brooks
Beats Sumner with his cane

14. Election of 1856
Buchanan (D)
Fremont (R)
Fillmore (A)

15. American/Know-Nothing Party
Anti-foreign
Anti-Catholic
“Americans Must Rule America”

17. Election of 1856

18. James Buchanan

19. Dred Scott Dred Scott v. Stanford March 6, 1857
Slave whose master took him to live in a free state
Sued for his freedom

20. Ruling Blacks were not citizens, could not sue in court
Federal gov’t couldn’t regulate slavery in territories
Slaves are property

21. Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

24. Plan: Seize federal armory Cause a slave rebellion
Start a new nation of freed slaves in the Appalachian Mountains

25. Actually… Captured arsenal Surrounded by Union
Captured, arrested, convicted, executed

26. “If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments-I submit; so let it be done.”