1. The Coming of the Civil War

2. MexicanWar(1846-1848)

3. Missouri Compromise (1820) Henry Clay

4. Texas, Oregon, & the Gadsden Purchase

5. David Wilmot

6. John C. Calhoun John C. Calhoun Calhoun Resolutions Calhoun Resolutions

7. Zachary Taylor, 1848

8. Stephen Douglas “The Little Giant”

9. Millard Fillmore

10. Compromise of 1850

11. Franklin Pierce, 1852

12. Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)

13. Voting on the Kansas Nebraska Act US House—1854 Total Votes Total Votes 113 In favor 100 Against Whigs Democrats Whigs Democrats For AgainstFor Against North 0 47 4444 South 14 7 55 2 1454 9946 1454 9946 Total South 69 for 9 against Total South 69 for 9 against Total North 44 for 91 against (only 7 of these 44 are re-elected) Total North 44 for 91 against (only 7 of these 44 are re-elected)

14. “Slave Power” Conspiracy

15. The Republican Party Candidates, 1856 “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, Fremont”

16. 1856 Electoral Vote

17. “Bleeding Kansas”

18. Voting in Kansas, 1855 Eligible Voters approx. 3,000 Free Soil Votes 791 Proslavery Votes ??? ??? Judged fraudulent

19. Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts “The Crime Against Kansas” (May 1856)

20. Sumner Brooks Affair, 1856

21. Dred Scott, Slave Chief Justice Roger Taney

22. Abraham Lincoln, 1858 “... when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places, and by different workmen -- Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance; and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill... and not a piece too many or too few, -- not omitting even the scaffolding, -- or if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in -- in such a case we feel it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James, all understood one another from the beginning and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn before the first blow was struck.” “... when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places, and by different workmen -- Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance; and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill... and not a piece too many or too few, -- not omitting even the scaffolding, -- or if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in -- in such a case we feel it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James, all understood one another from the beginning and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn before the first blow was struck.”

23. Fire Eaters

24. Fugitive Slave Handbills

26. Anthony Burns It costs over It costs over $40,000 to return Anthony Burns to slavery.

27. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

28. John Brown

29. Democrats 1860

30. Abraham Lincoln William Seward

31. Constitutional Union Party John Bell

32. 1860 Election

34. Spelling/Vocabulary Lesson Secede—to withdraw from an organization, political entity or Union. Secede—to withdraw from an organization, political entity or Union. Secession—the act of withdrawing. Secession—the act of withdrawing. Succeed—to accomplish something desired or intended. Succeed—to accomplish something desired or intended. “Seceed” is not a word “Seceed” is not a word In a sentence, “Fire Eaters hoped that southerners would succeed when they seceded from the Union.” In a sentence, “Fire Eaters hoped that southerners would succeed when they seceded from the Union.”

36. Jefferson Davis

37. Ft. Sumter