1. Your Turn! What events will be a compromise? What events will be a conflict?

2. The Compromise of 1850 (Slave states vs Free states again…) California – admitted as a free state Texas – admitted as a slave state Other territories in the west will vote on slavery Sale of slaves abolished in DC Fugitive Slave Law est. - Escaped slaves need to be returned

3. The Fugitive Slave Act The Fugitive Slave Act The government and all its citizens were now required to return slave owner’s “property” Escaped slaves are now the responsibility of the government. The Fugitive Slave Act!

4. Northern Outrage! Even Free Blacks now feared of being forced back into slavery Thousands flee to Canada Now the Abolitionist movement becomes a powerful force

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

6. Very popular and well-known in USA!

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe ( 1811 – 1896) So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln

8. …and the Nation is still growing The territory that now makes up Kansas and Nebraska are lobbying hard to become states! Both are above Missouri’s southern border – so should they be free or slave? If they were one or the other – what would that do to the balance of power in the U.S.?

9. Compromise Kansas – Nebraska Act - 1854 “popular sovereignty” to decide free or slave Pro- Abolition and Pro- Slavery forces flood Kansas to sway the vote BLOODY KANSAS!

10. Conflict Bleeding Kansas (John Brown) - 1856 A militant abolitionist who led a few others into a pro slavery settlement outside of Lawrence, Kansas. They hacked five men to death with swords.

11. Kansas Nebraska

12. Conflict Dred Scott - 1857 Slaves are property! Slaves (and former slaves) were not citizens Property rights are guaranteed by the Constitution (5 th amendment)

13. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper The Dred Scott case was front page news on Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper in 1857. Harriet and Dred with their two daughters are depicted sympathetically as members of the middle class rather than as abused and mistreated slaves.

14. Brown returns east from Kansas and plans a war in Virginia against slavery. On October 16, 1859, he and 21 other men - - 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Conflict John Brown’s Raid

15. Election of 1860 Birth of the Republican Party Who was their first candidate? The Republicans win the election without winning any Southern States The South sees this as a complete loss of political power in Washington Conflict

16. The Election of 1860 The results reflect the sectional schism over slavery. Lincoln carried the election although he won only in northern states. His name did not even appear on the ballot in most southern states.

18. Union and Confederacy Conflict – South Secedes (SC first 1860)

19. Newspaper from Charleston, SC

20. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861