The Impending Crisis

1
The Impending Crisis

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Pierce Administration
• Kansas-Nebraska
• Changing Times in the North
• Bleeding Kansas
• Dred Scott

2
(No Transcript)
3
The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
4
The Missouri Compromise
5
Manifest destiny
6
The War Against Mexico
7
David Wilmot
8
(No Transcript)
9
A.The Compromise of 1850 Divisions in Congress
10
Why the urgency?
11
January 1850 Clay proposes his resolutions
12
William Seward and a higher law - March
13
(No Transcript)
14
Southern threats

• Nashville Convention, June

15
(No Transcript)
16
Zachary Taylor dies, July
17
Stephen A. Douglas

• Douglas divides the bill

18
Millard Fillmore
19
(No Transcript)
20
B. The Pierce Administration The Election of 1852
21
The Election of 1852

• Franklin Pierce

22

• Winfield Scott

23
The Election of 1852
24
Jane Means Pierce
25
B. The Pierce Administration

• Expansion unify the country

26
Gadsden Purchase
27
B. The Pierce Administration

• Filibusters
• The Corpus Christi connection
• Ostend Manifesto

William Walker
28
Gadsden Filibusters Ostend

• Pro-South

29
C. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas (D-Ill.)
30
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
31
The Missouri Compromise
32
THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
33
THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
34
Senator Sam Houston
35
Political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Terr. govt. in KN and Neb
• No RR
• Popular sovereignty discredited in North
• Whig Party shattered in North

36
Political impact of Kansas-Nebraska Southern
domination of the Democratic Party
Congressional seats held by Democrats
37

• Northern Whigs
• Liberty Party
• Republican Party focus on opposing expansion of
  slavery

38
D. Changing Times in the North
39
(No Transcript)
40
Internal divisions will nativism become the
dominant political question in the North?
41
Changes in the House of Representatives
42
Anti-Irish riots in Philadelphia, 1844
43
No Irish Need Apply, 1862
44
Know-Nothing, or American Party
45
D. Changing Times in the North

• The fugitive slave law

46
Warning to the freedmen of Boston

• Anthony Burns

47
Harriet Beecher Stowe
48
William Lloyd Garrison
49
Frederick Douglass
50
Free Labor

• Individual economic independence
• Need for open land
• Slavery closed South to free labor
• Slavery thus limits opportunities for free labor
• Slavery must be prevented from expanding
• Slavery is dangerous because of what it threatens
  to do to whites

51
E. Bleeding Kansas The Kansas Vote, 1855
territorial elections
52

• Charles Sumner and the crime against Kansas
  (May 1856)

Preston Brooks
53
(No Transcript)
54
(No Transcript)
55
Bleeding Kansas the sack of Lawrence
56
John Brown - massacre at Pottawatomie Creek (May
1856)
57
The Election of 1856
Democrats - James Buchanan
58
(No Transcript)
59
The Election of 1856

• Republicans - John C. Fremont

60
Fremont and Dayton banner
Bottom of banner - free labor, free speech, free
territory
61
The Election of 1856

• Know-Nothings (American) - Millard Fillmore

62
American Party cartoon critical of corruption
from the government crib. Fremont is the rat
closest to the crib.
63

• Fremont Fillmore Buchanan

64
THE ELECTION OF 1856 (Popular vote)
65
(No Transcript)
66
THE ELECTION OF 1856 (Electoral College)
67
THE ELECTION OF 1856 (Popular vote, by section)
68
(No Transcript)
69
(No Transcript)
70
(No Transcript)
71
F. Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott
Roger B. Taney
72
Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Taneys decision
• Explaining Taneys decision

73
James Buchanan - attempts to influence the court
74
Deadlock over Kansas (1857-59) Dueling
constitutions
Lecompton
Topeka
75
Deadlock over Kansas (1857-59)

• Continued army presence
• Continued electoral fraud
• Southerners threaten secession if Lecompton not
  upheld
• Buchanan and Senate support Lecompton
• Douglas and House oppose Lecompton
• Measure sent back to Kansas, where it loses by
  11,300-1788 margin

76
(No Transcript)