1. Good Morning What you will need today: – –Unit 2 Major Themes – –Any notes from homework – –Essay Prep Sheet from last class “Building a House” – –Film Quiz Sheet from last class

2. Quiz Use your notes and/or your brain.

3. Unit Question: Why do we fight? Guiding Questions for Today:Guiding Questions for Today: –How & why did the results of the Mexican-American War contribute to sectional difficulties in the US? –Why did the Compromise of 1850 break down so quickly?

5. Texas & Mexican Cession

6. Slavery Throughout US History 1.1787 - Northwest Ordinance 2.1789 - U. S. Constitution 3.1793 - Fugitive Slave Act 4.1820 – Missouri Compromise 5.1831-1844 – “Gag Rule” 6.1832 – Nullification Crisis 7.1836-1845 – Texas 8.1846-1848 - Mexican War 9.1850

7. Texas & Mexican Cession

8. Compromiseof 1850 Compromise of 1850

9. Compromise of 1850 1.CA a Free State 2.UT & NM Popular Sovereignty –TX Border Settlement 3.Slave Trade Banned in DC 4.Strict Fugitive Slave Law

10. Compromiseof 1850 Compromise of 1850

11. Compromise of 1850 Who wins? Is this helping or hurting sectional difficulties? What problems will this lead to?

12. Fugitive Slave Law & Political Impacts Read articles. How & why did the results of the Mexican-American War contribute to sectional difficulties in the US? Why did the Compromise of 1850 break down so quickly?

13. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896 So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln

14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852  Sold 300,000 copies in the first year.  2 million in a decade!  Sold 300,000 copies in the first year.  2 million in a decade!

15. Other Effects Impending Crisis of the SouthImpending Crisis of the South Personal Liberty LawsPersonal Liberty Laws Riots & FightsRiots & Fights Slavery as a “positive good”Slavery as a “positive good”

16. How can we use any of this in our essay? Essay Prep Sheet

17. 1852 Presidential Election Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil “Doughface” Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil “Doughface”

18. 1852 Electio n Result

19. Expansionists in America - the 1850s Filibustering Expeditions – “All Mexico” Movement

20. Franklin Pierce Expansion?Expansion? Filibustering ExpeditionsFilibustering Expeditions Ostend Manifesto – Plans for CubaOstend Manifesto – Plans for Cuba William Walker – “Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny”William Walker – “Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny”

21. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 Stephen Douglas Popular Sovereignty

22. “Bleeding Kansas” Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)

23. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?

24. “The Crime Against Kansas” Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

26. Rise of the 3 rd Party System Whigs falling apart…Whigs falling apart… Why?Why?

27. The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party] The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party]  Nativists.  Anti-Catholics.  Anti-immigrants.  Why didn’t they last?  Nativists.  Anti-Catholics.  Anti-immigrants.  Why didn’t they last?  1849  Secret Order of the Star-Spangled Banner created in NYC.

28. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854  Northern Whigs.  Northern Democrats.  Free-Soilers.  Know-Nothings.  Opponents of the Kansas- Nebraska Act.  Northern Whigs.  Northern Democrats.  Free-Soilers.  Know-Nothings.  Opponents of the Kansas- Nebraska Act.

29. 1856 Presidential Election James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Know Nothing

30. Signs of Sectionalism

31. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

32. Roger TaneyRoger Taney DecisionDecision EffectsEffects Reaction?Reaction? –North? South? Others? –Douglas? Lincoln?

33. Statehood for Kansas 1857? Lecompton Constitution 1857

34. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand. A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

35. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.Union

36. Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine How to balance Dred Scott with Popular Sovereignty?

37. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

38. 1860 Presidential Election Abraham Lincoln Republican John Bell Constitutional Union Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat

40. Republican Platform 1860 1.No extension of slavery 2.Protective tariff. 3.Internal improvements at federal expense – Pacific RR central route. 4.Free homesteads 1.No extension of slavery 2.Protective tariff. 3.Internal improvements at federal expense – Pacific RR central route. 4.Free homesteads

41. 1860 Election Results 1860 Election Results

42. Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address To whom is Lincoln speaking? What arguments is he making? What does he say about slavery? What does he say about secession? How could we use this to say something about causes of the US Civil War?

43. Secession!: SC  Dec. 20, 1860 Secession!: SC  Dec. 20, 1860

44. Crittenden Compromise: A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing- KY)

45. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861