Chapter 10 The Union in Peril

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Chapter 10The Union in Peril
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Economic Differences in North and South

• South
• Agriculture
• Slavery
• Wealthy
• Small Population

• North
• Manufacturing
• Anti-Slavery
• More even Distribution of income
• Larger Population

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Territorial Disputes over slavery

• California
• New Mexico
• Utah

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Wilmot Proviso

• Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall
  exist in any territory the United States might
  acquire as a result of the war with Mexico.
• Simply that California, Utah, and New Mexico
  would be admitted to the Union as free States

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As a result of the Gold Rush, California skipped
the Territorial Phase of becoming a state
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The Senate begins to debate the admission of
these states as free states.

• End result is that the southern states begin
  screaming secession.

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Compromise of 1850

• Clays Compromise
• Admitted California as a free state
• More effective fugitive slave law
• Popular Sovereignty

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Protest, Resistance, and Violence
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Fugitive Slave Act

• Declared open season on all slaves in the north
• Policeman were given a free hand in returning
  slaves as fugitive, whether they were or not.
• Northern states passed Personal Liberty Laws

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The Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman

• Initiated the underground Railroad
• Soon other blacks and whites were conductors of
  the railroad
• Ex slave who was severely beaten

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Uncle Toms Cabin
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Compare

• The Missouri Compromise (Slide A), Compromise of
  1850(Slide B) and the Kansas-Nebraska Act(Slide C)

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Expansion of America
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• North and South began to erupt into violence

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1st was the Sack of LawrenceThousands of Border
ruffians swept into Kansas and voted to admit
slavery. A posse of about 800 men went in and
burned the antislavery headquarters to the ground
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2nd was the Pottawatomie MassacreJohn Brown
caught wind of the sack of Lawrence and Decided
that God had sent him to rid the world of slavery
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John Brown

• Anti slavery Fanatic
• Called by God
• Bleeding Kansas
• Fled the territory
• Caught and Hanged at Harpers Ferry

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The Birth of the Republican Party
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Whig Party split

• Whigs
• Opposed Fugitive Slave Act
• Lukewarm support to the Compromise of 1850

• Know Nothing Party
• Nativism
• Order of the Star Spangled Banner
• Fence riders

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Formation of Political Parties
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Secession
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Dred Scott

• Slave from Missouri
• Owner moved to free state
• Scott believed he should be free
• Owner moved back to slave state and took Scott
  with him
• Court ruled in favor of owner, slaves did not
  have the same rights as citizens

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Change is own the HorizonA new Name begins to
emerge as the savor for the Union
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Abraham Lincoln
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Election of 1860
John Bell
John Breckinridge
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
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Formation of the Confederate States of America

• Southern States formed together
• Jefferson Davis
• Union is in peril
• Southern states left the Union as soon as Lincoln
  won the election