The Drums of War

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The Drums of War
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Which one has more power?
State Governments
Federal Government
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Balance of Power

• Southerners thought that the federal government
  did not have the power to tell states whether
  slavery was legal or not.
• Increasing sectionalist tensions between North
  and South.
• Southerners feared that the North had too much
  power.

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Wilmot Proviso

• An amendment to a bill.
• The proviso would have outlawed slavery in the
  new territories acquired from Mexico, including
  California.
• The Proviso passed the house, but not the Senate.
• The Wilmot Proviso, helped to create the
  Republican Party.

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Free Soil Party

• The first anti-slavery political party.
• Started in Buffalo, NY.
• Most of its members joined the Republican Party.

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Compromise of 1850

• CA Free State
• Slavery in new territories issue to be decided by
  Popular Sovereignty (voting).
• Ended slave trade in Washington D.C.
• Fugitive Slave Law created.
• Settled border problems between NM and TX.

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Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

• Part of the Compromise of 1850.
• Required citizens to catch runaway slaves.
• If a person did not comply, they could be fined
  up to 1000 or put in jail.
• Judges received 10 if they returned a slave and
  5 if they freed them.
• Northerners hated the law because it forced them
  to become a part of the system of slavery.

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Uncle Toms Cabin (1852)

• Written by Harriett Beecher Stowe.
• It was written to show the evils of slavery.
• After reading it, many Northerners began to
  change their view of slavery.
• Southerners said the book was full of lies!

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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

• Stephen Douglas wanted the issue of slavery there
  to be settled by voting (popular sovereignty).
• Anti-Slavery Northerners Pro-Slavery
  Southerners all move to KS .
• They want to influence the vote.
• John Brown and Pottawattamie Massacre begins
  episode known as Bleeding Kansas.

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Republican Party

• 1st political party to include abolition in their
  platform.
• 1860 Republican, Lincoln wins Presidential
  election.
• Southern states begin to secede because of 1860
  election.

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Violence in the Senate

• Charles Sumner attacked by Preston Brooks.
• Congressmen start carrying weapons into chambers.
• North and South divide further.

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John Browns Raid

• Brown and posse attack armory at Harpers Ferry,
  VA.
• Goal start a slave revolt throughout the South.
• Brown caught and hanged.
• Southerners John Brown is evil!
• Northerners John Brown is a hero!

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Series of debates for Illinois Senate seat.
• Lincoln lost.
• After debates Lincoln became known nationally.

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Election of 1860

• 1 Republican (Lincoln) ran against 2 Democrats
  (Douglass, the Northern Democrat Breckenridge
  the Southern Democrat) in the Presidential
  Election of 1860.
• The Democratic vote was split, so Lincoln easily
  won a majority.
• The Southern states did not like Lincoln or what
  he believed in.
• To Southerners this showed the North had too much
  power!
• Many Southerners talked of seceding from the
  Union.

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Secession

• South Carolina secedes from the United States.
• The Civil War is unavoidable now!