1. Causes of the Civil War Tensions are Heating up in Congress

2. Missouri Compromise of1820 Non-Slave States Maine Slave States Missouri Compromise Line 36*, 30n Note: Time of the “Good Feeling Era”, prohibited slavery above the MCL. It was known as >>> 1 free state AND 1 slave state

3. Compromise of 1850 1.Challenged the Compromise of 1820 2.California a FREE State 3.New Mexico & Utah an OPEN state 4.How did Congress Act to this? Note: After the U.S.-Mexican War – should new lands be divided by the slave issue? Congress agreed to admit California, in exchange for the Fugitive Slave Law.

4. Fugitive Slave Act 1850 It required any citizen to capture a runaway slave, and bring them back to their slave owner (Bounty- Hunters)

5. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin’s Impact

6. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 1. Kansas and Nebraska reside above the 36w, 30n Which is ? 2. Douglas’s proposal – Popular Sovereignty – people to decide

7. Bleeding Kansas 1854 – 1856 What Happened? Stephen Douglas (Illinois) introduced POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY Meaning the People would decide This overturned the Compromise of 1820 & 1850

8. Dred Scott Decision 1857 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3lKSs2Z oA Significance: Chief Justice Roger Taney stated > Scott was a Non-citizen/property * A-14

9. Explain - Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858 Note: Lincoln stated that African Americans were human beings w/right guaranteed by the DOI. Lincoln condemned the Dred Scott decision

10. Election of 1860 – What Happened?

11. South Secedes 1860 – Why? https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=roNmeOOJCDY

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