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HOW TENSIONS BETWEEN N & S HEAT UP! The Wilmot Proviso (1846): proposed that there be no slavery in new territory from Mexico rejected in the Senate. Why? It tried to prevent slavery in territories America won in the Mexican War. North opposed South against any laws prohibiting slavery
Fugitive Slave Act Part of Compromise of very harsh laws People would be fined or imprisoned for helping a fugitive/runaway slave Alleged captured slaves denied jury trial People paid more for returning captured slaves
Harriet Tubman Most famous>> Harriet Tubman “nicknamed” Secret network of people who help slaves escape
Uncle tom’s cabin Written by abolitionist Shows slavery as a moral problem> it was wrong Southerners criticize it as stereotypical Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 “Motivation” Get railroad built> need to get people living there and settled >open it to slavery and let people decide through Popular sovereignty >>people in newly settled areas decide for themselves >Territory split into Kansas & Nebraska Stephen Douglas
BLEEDING KANSAS John Brown Pro & Anti-slavery groups rush to territory 800 pro-slavery people settle in Kansas Northerners outraged Violence everywhere = bleeding Kansas John Brown
BLEEDING KANSAS Violence spills over to Congress Senator Sumner verbally attacks Sen Pickens SC- insults him in Congress Pickens nephew, Representative Preston Brooks confronts Sumner in the Senate, beats him with a cane
>Supreme Court Ruling: Slaves don’t have the rights of citizens - no right to sue for his freedom -Missouri Compromise unconstitutional -Congress couldn’t make laws against slavery in individual states>that was unconstitutional
Abolitionist John Brown leads raid Objective: Seize federal arsenal & distribute arms to area slaves to begin an uprising. 60 prominent citizens held hostage - No slave uprising Several raiders (10) were killed; Brown captured. Virginia tried Brown for treason Executed December 2, 1859
Major Political parties PartyEstablishedMajor Platform Free Soil Know-Nothing Whig Republican Democrat Slavery further divides the nation
1858 Lincoln runs for Stephen Douglas Senate seat in Illinois Lincoln virtually unknown- challenges Douglas to 7 debates= Lincoln Douglas Debates Lincoln’ s quote“ A house divided against itself cannot stand” I believe this government can not endure permanently half slave and half free” »Lincoln lost
Debate platformLincolnDouglas SlaverySlavery was immoral But did not favor equality of white and black races Popular sovereignty Spread of slaveryNeeded laws to outlaw slavery Popular sovereignty would allow slavery to go away on its own- people would vote it out of existence Freeport DoctrineLincoln disagreed with Freeport Doctrine Douglas’s idea> Territories could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws allowing slavery- people could get around the laws
Abraham LincolnStephen Douglas
S.C. talks secession if Lincoln is elected They secede They claim States rights!! Other states follow Miss, FL, AL, GA, LA and TX Confederacy formed
Confederacy formed- Confederate States of America
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