The Union in Crisis Chapter 10

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The Union in CrisisChapter 10

• How did the nations expansion lead to the Civil
  War?

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Slavery, States Rights, and Western Expansion

• Section 1
• How did Congress try to resolve the dispute
  between North and South over slavery?
• Vocabulary
• Wilmot Proviso secede
• Free-Soil Party Compromise of 1850
• popular sovereignty Fugitive Slave Act

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Two Nations

• North and South were divided by slavery
• North believed slavery was wrong based on
  religion
• South believed that whites and African Americans
  were not equal and attacked uncaring northern
  industrialists who took no personal
  responsibility for their workers
• Wilmot Proviso seeks to limit slavery in the
  territories gained in the Mexican-American War.
  Passed by the House of Representatives, but
  rejected by the Senate

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Northern Views of Slavery

• Laws in the North severely limited the rights of
  free African Americans
• Abolitionists wanted slavery to end
• Some white northern bankers, mill owners, and
  merchants favored slavery
• Some northern workers feared that freed slaves
  would take their jobs

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Southern Views of Slavery

• Slavery was a part of southern life
• Many southerners felt that slavery was good
• Many argued that slavery was more kind than the
  northern system of free labor
• Southerners believed that slaves were healthier
  and happier

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Historians

• Recent historians emphasize the differences
  between the regions, racial groups, and social
  classes
• Some kind of major conflict was bound to occur
• Question Could the politicians have avoided the
  Civil War?

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Election of 1848

• Free-Soil Party supported the Wilmot Proviso to
  keep new western territories free of slavery
• Nominated Martin Van Buren
• Popular sovereignty policy that voters in a
  territory would decide whether or not to allow
  slavery both the Democratic Party and the Whigs
  support popular sovereignty

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Election of 1848

• Democrats Lewis Cass
• Whigs Zachary Taylor
• Free Soil Party Martin Van Buren
• Van Buren took votes away from Cass to give
  Taylor the victory
• Taylor died in 1850 Millard Fillmore, the Vice
  President, takes office

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Compromise of 1850

• Question What were the effects of the Missouri
  Compromise, and how did the Compromise of 1850
  try to deal with them?
• Kept the balance between slave and free states in
  the Senate free states only north of 36º 30 N
  latitude
• Henry Clay of Kentucky proposes a compromise to
  admit California as a free state
• John C. Calhoun of SC against compromise
• Daniel Webster of Massachusetts for compromise

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Chart Clays Compromise of 1850
Clays Compromise of 1850
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A Rising Tide of Protest and Violence
Section 2

• How did the Fugitive Slave Act and the
  Kansas-Nebraska Act increase tensions between the
  North and the South?
• Vocabulary
• personal liberty laws
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Underground Railroad
• John Brown
• Harriet Tubman
• Bleeding Kansas
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Underground Railroad

• Known as the Black Moses
• Guided hundreds of slaves to freedom
• Large reward on her head, but never captured

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Stephen Douglas of Illinois wanted to run for
  President
• Act supported popular sovereignty for area
• Passed but made North angry in effect, Congress
  repealed the Missouri Compromise since Kansas and
  Nebraska were above the 36º 30 N latitude

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Violence Begins

• Free soilers 1,200 New Englanders sent to Kansas
  to fight against slavery
• Proslavery settlers opposed them
• Kansas had an antislavery capital at Topeka and a
  proslavery capital at Lecompton
• 1856, open violence erupted
• Bleeding Kansas

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Bleeding Kansas

• John Brown Following a raid in Lawrence by a
  proslavery group, he and his followers killed
  five proslavery men along the Pottawatomie Creek
• Summer of murder and raids

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Lecompton Constitution

• Proslavery group wrote a proslavery constitution
  for Kansas called the Lecompton constitution
• Buchanan accepted it, but Congress returned it.
• Defeated by Kansas people the second time

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Senate Violence

• Senator Charles Sumner, a Republican, gave a
  speech that attacked Southerners for forcing
  slavery on Kansas and insulted Senator Andrew
  Butler of SC
• Preston Brooks, a member of the House beat him
  with his cane
• Sumner lived but never recovered added to hatred

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Uncle Toms Cabin Eliza Harris, a slave, escapes
  when her child is to be sold
• As Eliza heads north, she eludes the slave
  catchers
• Uncle Tom is sold and is killed by his brutal
  master, Simon Legree, a Northerner
• Book had a powerful effect North became
  convinced that slavery would ruin the U.S. South
  believed it was a book of insulting lies.

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Political Realignment Deepens the Crisis Section
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• What developments deepened the divisions between
  North and South?
• Vocabulary
• Know-Nothings Abraham Lincoln
• Republican Party Stephen A. Douglas
• Dred Scott Harpers Ferry
• Roger B. Taney

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Shifting Political Scene

• Whig Party disintegrates divided over the
  issues nominated Winfield Scott in 1852
• Know-Nothings nativists will become American
  Party divided over issues

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Republican Party

• 1854, dedicated to stopping Slave Power
• Declared slavery a great moral evil
• Demanded repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and
  Fugitive Slave Act
• Comprised of antislavery Democrats, Whigs, and
  Free Soilers from North
• Farmers, professionals, small business owners,
  craftworkers joined

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Election of 1856

• Democrats nominated James Buchanan
• Republicans nominated John C. Frémont
• Know-Nothings chose Millard Fillmore
• Buchanan won the election
• He hoped that the Supreme Court would resolve the
  slavery issue

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Scott v. Sandford

• The Dred Scott Decision 1857
• Scott v. Sandford
• Scott sued his owner
• Said that he and his wife were taken to states
  and territories where slavery was illegal and
  therefore should be free

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Ruling

• The Court, under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney,
  ruled 7 to 2 against Scott
• Slaves are property, not citizens, and cannot sue
  in court
• Scott not free due to being in free area
• Missouri Compromise ruled unconstitutional.
  Slaves were considered property of their owners
  and Congress could not deprive people of their
  property without due process of law according to
  the Fifth Amendment.
• Antislavery forces were disgusted

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Campaigning for Senate seat from Illinois in 1858
• Series of seven debates on the issue of slavery
  in the territories.
• Physical contrast in the men was striking
• Douglas wins election

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Abraham Lincoln

• Studied law and worked at various jobs
• Served in the Congress in the 1840s
• Believed that the majority could not deny the
  minority their rights
• Foresaw confrontation
• A house divided against itself cannot stand. I
  believe this government cannot endure,
  permanently half slave and half free. I do not
  expect the Union to be dissolvedI do not expect
  the house to fallbut I do expect it will cease
  to be divided. It will become all one thing, or
  all the other.

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Senator Douglas

• Short, stout known as the Little Giant
• Believed that the majority of people could do
  anything they wished, even make slavery legal
• Lincoln gets national attention, although Douglas
  won the Senate election

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates1858 Illinois Senate Race

• Stephen Douglas
• Agreed with Dred Scott decision on legal grounds
• Freeport Doctrine says people can vote slavery
  down by popular sovereignty

• Abraham Lincoln
• Disagreed with Dred Scott decision (How can we
  have popular sovereignty if case is accepted?)
• Believed slavery should not be allowed to spread
  to the territories

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John Browns Raid

• 1859, Brown and his men attacked the federal
  arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia he hoped to
  seize weapons and give them to slaves
• Wanted a slave uprising
• Colonel Robert E. Lee leads troops Brown is
  executed.
• Northerners saw him as a martyr his raid
  deepened the divide between the North and South

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Chart American Political Parties During the 1850s
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Lincoln, Secession, and WarSection 4

• How did the Union finally collapse into a civil
  war?
• Vocabulary
• Jefferson Davis
• Crittenden Compromise
• John C. Breckinridge
• Fort Sumter
• Confederate States of America

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The Election of 1860

• In April 1860, Democratic Party split into North
  and South factions
• In Border States, the Constitutional Union party
  forms from Whigs and American party (Know
  Nothing)

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Candidates

• Southern Democrats John C. Breckinrigde
• Northern Democrats Stephen Douglas, Illinois
• Constitutional Unionist party John Bell,
  Tennessee
• Republican party Abraham Lincoln, Illinois
• Lincoln wins with 39 of the vote and 180
  electoral votes sectional victory

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Lower South Secedes

• Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
  Georgia, and South Carolina
• Secessionists those who wanted the South to
  secede

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Confederate States of America

• South Carolina seceded December 20, 1860
• In February 1861, the seven states created the
  Confederacy and elected Jefferson Davis as
  President

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War Starts

• Lincoln takes office on March 4, 1861
• Vows to enforce the laws of the U.S. and to
  preserve, protect, and defend the government

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Fort Sumter

• Fort under the command of Major Robert Anderson
• Running out of supplies
• April 12 General P.G.T. Beauregard fires on the
  fort
• Anderson surrenders

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Upper South

• Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas
  joined the Confederacy
• Border States stay neutral
• The Civil War begins

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Political Cartoons The Nation Divided
Political Cartoons The Nation Divided
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