The 1850's, Campaigns and Elections 9-25

The 1850's, Campaigns and Elections Discontent in the South Discontent in the North Elections

Discontent in the South Compromise of 1850 Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Birth of the Republican Party

Compromise of 1850 Said that all states should be able to choose whether or not to have slaves

Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Birth of the Republican Party March 20th, the Republican Party was born in a Ripon, Wisconsin schoolhouse.

Discontent in the South Bleeding Kansas Lincoln-Douglas Debates John Brown’s Raid

Bleeding Kansas Caused by the Kansas- Nebraska Act, 1854

Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged United States Senator Stephen Douglas’s support of a law allowing slavery in free territory.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

October 16, 1859 Harper’s Ferry, VA John Brown’s Raid

Discontent in the North Ostend Manifesto Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Sumner-Brooks incident

Ostend Manifesto US tries to buy Cuba from Spain- 1854

Sumner-Brooks Incident

Discontent in the North Dred Scott decision The influx of German and Irish immigrants Panic of 1857

Dred Scott Decision 1846 – Scott v. Sandford

1852 Elections Decline of the Whig Party

1856 Elections Rise of the Republican Party

1856 Elections Know- Nothing Party

1860 Elections Four Candidates

1860 Elections Lincoln- Republican Party

1860 Elections Douglas- Northern Democrats

1860 Elections Breckinridge- Southern Democrats

1860 Elections Bell- Constitutional Union

Effects of the 1860 Elections

Secession of South Carolina and the Lower South

Order of Secession 1.) South Carolina-December, ) Georgia-January 29, ) Mississippi-January ) Texas-February 2, 1861

Effects of the 1860 Elections Efforts at Compromise