1. The 1850s:
Road to
Secession

2. Texas & Mexican Cession

3. Slavery Throughout US History
Northwest Ordinance
U. S. Constitution
1820 – Missouri Compromise
– “Gag Rule”
1832 – Nullification Crisis
– Texas
Mexican War
1850 – Compromise of 1850.

4. Texas & Mexican Cession

5. Compromise of 1850

6. Compromise of 1850 CA a Free State UT & NM Popular Sovereignty
TX Border Settlement
Slave Trade Banned in DC
Strict Fugitive Slave Law

7. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896
So this is the lady who started the Civil War Abraham Lincoln

8. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Sold 300,000 copies in the first year.
2 million in a decade!

9. Other Effects Underground Railroad Personal Liberty Laws
Riots & Fights
Anthony Burns
Slavery as a “positive good”

10. 1852 Election Result

11. Expansionist Young America in the 1850s
Filibustering Expeditions

12. Franklin Pierce Expansion? Filibustering Expeditions
Ostend Manifesto – Plans for Cuba
William Walker – Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny

13. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Stephen Douglas Popular Sovereignty

14. Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)
“Bleeding Kansas”
Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)

15. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?

16. “The Crime Against Kansas”
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

17. Rise of the 3rd Party System
Whigs falling apart…
Why?

18. Birth of the Republican Party 1854
Pro-business
Pro-tariff
National power over states
Internal improvements by national
No spread of slavery
Northern Whigs.
Northern Democrats.
Free-Soilers.
Know-Nothings.
Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

19. 1856 Presidential Election
James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Know Nothing

20. Signs of Sectionalism

21. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

22. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857 Roger Taney Decision Effects Reaction?
North? South? Others?
Douglas? Lincoln?

23. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

24. Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine
How to balance Dred Scott with Popular Sovereignty?
…and tick off Southern Democrats

25. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

26. 1860 Presidential Election
Abraham Lincoln Republican
John Bell Constitutional Union
1860 Presidential Election
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat
Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat

28. Republican Platform 1860 No extension of slavery Protective tariff.
Internal improvements at federal expense – Pacific RR central route.
Free homesteads

29. 1860
Election
Results

30. Secession!:
SC Dec. 20, 1860

31. Crittenden Compromise: A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity
Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing-KY)

32. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861