Road to Secession 1854-1861

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Road to Secession 1854-1861
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Standards and Essential Question

• SSUSH 8 The student will explain the relationship
  between growing north-south divisions and western
  expansion c Describe the nullification crisis
  and the emergence of states rights ideology,
  include the role of John C. Calhoun development
  of sectionalism e explain the compromise of
  1850
• Question What does nullification refer to?
  What is a border ruffian?

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Take Five

• Which of these describes a significant advantage
  possessed by the Union at the beginning of the
  Civil War?  A) a larger free population  B) a
  larger agricultural labor force  C) a superior
  supply of military officers  D) a longer
  coastline for importing and exporting

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Bleeding Kansas

• Debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Southerners
• Republican party
• Northern abolitionists
• Eli Thayer
• New England Emigrant Aid Co.

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Bleeding Kansas
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Violence in Kansas

• border ruffians
• Lawrence, Kansas
• John Brown
• Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

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Debate in Congress

• Senator Charles Sumner
• The Crime Against Kansas
• Andrew Butler
• Preston Brooks
• Hostilities among peers

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The Election of 1856

• Democrats
• James Buchanan
• Republicans
• John C. Fremont
• Know-nothings
• Millard Fillmore

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Supreme Court decisions

• Dred Scott v Sandford
• Chief Justice Roger Taney
• Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional
• Republican outrage
• Lecompton Constitution
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Underground Railroad

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Northern political debate

• Stephen A. Douglas
• popular sovereignty alive and well
• The Freeport Doctrine
• Abraham Lincoln
• a house divided will not stand
• John Brown
• raising an army
• The raid at Harpers Ferry
• Treason and martyrdom

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John Browns Raid
Swift JusticeJohn Browns Raid on Oct 16,
1859hanging on Dec. 2, 1859 for Treason!!!
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The Election of 1860

• Democrats
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Repudiate the Freeport Doctrine
• Herschel Johnson
• John Breckinridge
• Joseph Lane
• Republicans
• Abraham Lincoln
• Hannibal Hamlin
• Constitutional Union Party
• John Bell
• Edward Everett

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Stephen Douglas
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Abraham Lincoln