Politics of Slavery

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Politics of Slavery

• Homework 156-165 Patriot (15 Evidence 15
  Interpretation- questions and how the film
  relates to what we have talked about in class)

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• Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,Old times
  there are not forgotten, (Alt Original Cinnamon
  seed and sandy bottom,)Look away, look away,
  look away Dixie Land.In Dixie Land, where I was
  born in,early on one frosty mornin', Look away,
  look away, look away Dixie Land. I wish I was
  in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll
  take my standto live and die in Dixie. Away,
  away, away down south in Dixie. Away, away, away
  down south in Dixie Optional VersesOle Missus
  marry "Will the weaver"Willum was a gay
  deceiverLook away! Look away! Look away!Dixie
  LandBut when he put his arm around 'er,He
  smiled fierce as a forty pounder,Look away! Look
  away! Look away!Dixie Land

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Old Kentucky Home (1859) Eastman Johnson
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Henry O. Tanner (c.1893)
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Battle Hymn of the Republic- Julia Ward Howe
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North vs. South and New Territories

• Plantation Economy vs. Industry
• Wilmot Proviso- Territories from Mexico should be
  free
• 36-30 Missouri Compromise
• Clays Compromise
• - California Free
• Stricter Fugitive Laws
• Popular Sovereignty (election)

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Protest, Resistance and Violence

• Fugitive Slave laws
• Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman
• Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stow focuses
  on moral issue
• Repeal of Missouri Compromise in favor of poplar
  sovereignty in Kansas Nebraska Act
• Bleeding Kansas and Missouri Ruffians
• Charles Sumner Speech and Violence in Senate

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New Political Parties

• Whigs split
• Franklin Pierce wins election as a pro slavery
  candidate. Democrat
• Know Nothing Party- Nativist split on slavery
• Free Soilers- not only abolitionist but those
  who were afraid of losing jobs to slaves
• Republican Party brings Northern ideas together
• 1856 war is obverted because Buchanan wins

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Secession

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford decision- slave owner took
  Scott to a free territory and back
• Lincoln Vs. Douglas Debate
• John Brown and Harpers Ferry
• Lincolns Moderate View wins election 1860
• Secession first South Carolina, then Mississippi
• Confederacy elects Jefferson Davis

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Lincoln on Slavery in 1858

• this government can not endure permanently half
  slave and half free

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Summary Questions

• 1) What did the Wilmot Proviso propose?
• 2) Who is known as the leader of the underground
  railroad?
• 3) Harriet Beecher Stow wrote this book about
  Southern Slavery?
• 4) Who proposed the Kansas Nebraska act calling
  for a division of the territory?
• 5) He led the group Bleeding Kansas, that pulled
  5 pro slavery settlers from their beds and
  stabbed them to death?
• 6) This party disappeared because of their
  disagreement on slavery?
• 7) John Brown led a rebellion on this town?
• 8) He was named the president of the confederacy
  after secession?
• 9) What was the premise of the no nothing
  party?
• 10) What occurred with the Dred Scott Decision