The Nation Breaking Apart

1
The Nation Breaking Apart

• Slavery Dominates Politics
• Chapter 15
• Section 2

2
Slavery and Political Division

• The Whig Party split into 2 factions
  Southerners supported Kansas-Nebraska Act
  Northerners opposed it.
• Northern Whigs formed Republican Party.
• Southerners joined the Democratic Party.

3
The Republican Party Forms

• Republicans anti-slavery sectional party.
• Moral arguments against slavery and condescending
  to agriculture and slavery.
• Bleeding Kansas turning point and Republicans
  blamed the Democrats for the violence.
• John C. Freemont nominated for president.

4
Election of 1856

• Democrats nominated James Buchanan.
• Said his goal was to maintain the union said
  little about slavery.
• Know-Nothing Party nominated Millard Fillmore
  divided over slavery and little power.
• Buchanan won the election, but Republicans proved
  to be a major source in the North.

5
The Breaking Point

• Dred Scott slave in MO, but had been free
  previously when his owner died he claimed to be
  free Dred Scott v.Sandford.
• The Supreme Court ruled against Scott.
• Chief Justice, Roger B. Taney, ruled that Scott
  was not a citizen and could not sue.

6
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate

• Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas in
  the for the IL U.S. Senate seat.
• Republicans feared that the Democrats wanted to
  legalize slavery nationwide.
• A house divided against itself cannot stand.
• Lincoln and Douglas held debates across IL.
• Lincoln argued slavery should not be expanded
  Douglas argued for popular sovereignty.

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Popular sovereignty was made unconstitutional by
  the Supreme Courts Dred Scott Decision.
• People could not vote to ban slavery because it
  took away slaveholders property rights.
• Douglas won reelection.
• Lincoln received much notoriety in the country
  and strengthened his position in the Republican
  Party.

8
John Browns Raid

• John Brown planned to capture weapons arsenal at
  Harpers Ferry, VA.
• 18 followers 13 whites and 5 blacks. Captured
  Harpers Ferry.
• Could rally local slaves to help.
• U.S. Marines sent in and Brown captured.
• Brown convicted of murder and treason(betrayal of
  country)