1. The Divisive Politics of Slavery
10.1

2. Industry in the North 1850’s –more than 20,000 miles of track laid
Cities transformed over night
Many immigrants came
Strongly opposed to slavery

3. Agriculture in the South
1850
1/3 of the nations population was in the South
Produced under 10% of manufactured goods
South used mostly water ways
African American Populations were becoming majorities

4. Wilmot Proviso
What was it?

5. Statehood for California
Gold Rush
1850 it applies for the Union
Constitution forbade slavery
Began the question of slavery again
Maybe the South should leave the Union?

6. Clay’s Compromise
Settle “all questions in controversy between the free and slave states, growing out of the subject of Slavery”

7. Clays Compromise Cont. Admit California into the Union
Give More effective fugitive slave laws
Gives use of Popular Sovereignty

8. Compromise
Clay fails
Stephen A. Douglas succeeded

9. Protest, Resistance and Violence
10.2

10. Kansas-Nebraska Act Divide into 2 territories If passed
Would repeal the Missouri Compromise
Establish popular sovereignty

11. Fight for Kansas Lawrence Founded by Antislavery settlers
Proslavery declared them traitors
800 armed men march on it

12. Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown
Crazy?
Took 5 men and massacred them
Triggered incidents that would cause 200 deaths

13. Violence in the Senate Charles Sumner Preston S. Brooks
Insults to Andrew P. Butler
Preston S. Brooks
Beats Sumner with a Cane

14. Birth of the Republican Party
10.3

15. Nativism Favored native born Americans over immigrants
“I know nothing party”
Thought the Catholics were going to over throw the country

16. Anti-Slavery Parties Free-Soilers Republican Party
Supported laws against Black voting
Looking for a better alternative
Republican Party
Opposed Kansas-Nebraska Act
“Bleeding Kansas” “Bleeding Sumner”

17. 1856 Election John Fremont James Buchanan
Led troops to Mexico
Republican Candidate
James Buchanan
From North
Out of the Country during the Kansas-Nebraska Act
If Fremont won South might have seceded then

18. Slavery and Secession
10.4

19. Dred Scott Decision Slave moved North Sued for his freedom
Court found that Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Hopes to end slavery was on the Republicans

20. Lecompton Constitution
1857 Proslavery government wrote a constitution
Free-soilers were 10-1
Buchanan endorsed the constitution
Stephen Douglas attacked
Douglas hailed as a hero

21. Lincoln Vs. Douglas-Senate
Open-air debates
Douglas was dramatic
Lincoln was plain and simple
Douglas believed popular sovereignty would allow slavery to pass
Lincoln doubt it would end and would need legistlation

22. Harpers Ferry John Brown Dec. 2nd, 1859 Brown was Hung
Studied History!!!!!
Felt it was the time to strike up a rebellion
October 16,1859 captured Harpers ferry
Confusion about Brown
Dec. 2nd, 1859 Brown was Hung

23. Presidency Lincoln was relatively unknown
3 went against Lincoln for the presidency
South Saw this as a threat to their way of life
December 20th, 1860 South Carolina seceded

24. The Confederate States of America was created…..