1. Events Leading to the Civil War Chapter 10

2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - powerful condemnation of slavery - best selling book in North

3. Stowe

4. Kansas-Nebraska Act - Stephen Douglas - K and N – decide fate by popular sov.

5. Stephen Douglas

6. “Bleeding Kansas” -proslavery and antislavery people came into Kansas - Missouri – pro-slavery - Emigrant Aid Company – anti-slavery group - Kansas setup 2 gov’ts - Border Ruffians – proslavery group attacked antislavery town of Lawrence - Pottawatomie Massacre - John Brown – abolitionist -executed 5 proslavery settlers

7. Henry Ward Beecher – “Beecher’s Bibles”

8. John Brown

9. Violence in Senate - Charles Sumner - Mass. Senator – abolitionist - insulted SC Sen. Andrew Butler - Preston Brooks – beat Sumner unconscious with cane

10. Brooks-Sumner Affair

11. Violence in Congress

12. Elections of 1852 and 1856 1852 – Franklin Pierce 1856 – James Buchanan - all Democrats - “Northern men w/ Southern principles” - rated worst presidents

13. Franklin Pierce - 1852

14. Winfield Scott- last Whig presidential candidate

15. James Buchanan

16. John C. Fremont – 1 st Repub. Candidate in 1856

17. Dred Scott Decision - Dred Scott – slave - master brought him from Missouri (slave) to Illinois and Wisconsin (Free) - Scott sued for freedom - Roger Taney – ruled that slaves were property and not people

18. Dred Scott Decision

19. Roger Taney

20. Lincoln-Douglas Debates -A. Lincoln v. Stephen Douglas - US Senate Seat for Illinois - 7 debates - Douglas wins election

21. Lincoln-Douglas Debates – US Senate

22. More

23. Harper’s Ferry -fed. arsenal in Virginia -John Brown planned to arm slaves and start slave revolt - Brown failed and was executed

24. John Brown again

25. WOW

26. Martyr?

27. Election of 1860 - Democratic Party splits - Northern Democrats – Stephen Douglas - Southern Democrats – John Breckinridge - Constitutional Union Party – John Bell -Republican Party – Abraham Lincoln

29. Election of 1860

31. Confederate States of America - South Carolina - 1 st state to secede - 7 states seceded by 1861 - president – Jefferson Davis - new constitution – guarantees slavery

32. SC secedes (7 altogether after 1860 election)

33. Jefferson Davis

34. Fort Sumter - Union fort in South Carolina - Lincoln sent food, but no arms to the fort - South fired on fort - Union ran out of ammo; gave up fort

35. Ft Sumter

38. CSA