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Title: Unit 10: The 1850s Overview Leading to Civil War


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Unit 10 The 1850s (Overview)Leading to Civil War
  • Essential Question Was the Civil War inevitable?

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Essential Question
  • WAS THE CIVIL WAR INEVITABLE?

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The 1850s (topics)
  • 1.) Congressional Compromises
  • 2.) Violence over Slavery
  • 3.) The Dred Scot Case
  • 4.) Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • 5.) The Old South
  • 6.) Slave Life Its Critics
  • 7.) Secession and Start of Civil War (1860)

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Congress in the 1850s
WHAT DID THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 THE
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT ACCOMPLISH?
AT THE END OF CLASS, YOU WILL ADVISE THE
GOVERNMENT ON A SLAVERY DECISION
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California Becomes a State
  • 1850 California wants to become a free state
  • CRISIS
  • Northerners think its OK to admit CA.
    Southerners oppose threaten to secede.

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Secession
  • Leaving the Union of the United States

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Popular Sovereignty
  • People of each territory should vote on slavery.

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Compromise of 1850
  • California free state
  • Popular Sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico
    territory
  • New Stricter Fugitive Slave Law
  • Slave trade outlawed in Washington DC (slavery
    remains legal)

Henry Clay on Senate floor (light of God
overheard)
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Fugitive Slave Law
  • Fugitive slave / slave-catcher drama in North.
  • Violence infuriates North. Pass personal liberty
    laws.
  • South infuriated and Norths non-cooperation with
    the law.

Margaret Garner killed her own child When slave
catchers came for her
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
  • Sponsor Stephen Douglas
  • Split the Unorganized Territory into Kansas
    Nebraska
  • Both open to slavery by popular sovereignty

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Slavery forbidden by Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise Line
Violates the Missouri Compromise!
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How would you advise Pres. Pierce?
  • Is the Kansas-Nebraska Act a good idea? Why or
    why not?

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What was Stephen Douglas thinking?
  • 1.) Organizing the Unorganized Territory will
    help Illinoiss economy
  • 2.) I want to be President so. .
  • 3.) I need to please the North and the South and.
    . .
  • A.) The South will like the principle of
    popular sovereignty
  • B.) The North knows slavery wont move into
    the territory

Surely, This will satisfy all!
Illinois Senator (Dem), Stephen Douglas
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Kansas-Nebraska Act Political Effects
  • Whig party splits over KS-Nebraska Act and dies.
  • Republican Party is born to oppose spread of
    slavery.
  • Run John C. Fremont for president in 1856 (he
    loses)

John C. Fremont
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Bleeding Kansas
Free-Soilers
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Lecompton Constitution (1857)
  • Most Kansans are free -soilers
  • Pro-Slavery Kansans write a pro-slavery state
    Constitution
  • Would you advise President James Buchanan to
    approve this?
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