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.
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• 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?