1. QOTD
Which of the following was one of the terms of the Compromise of 1850 that was strongly supported by the South?
a) The compromise removed the ban on the importation of slaves.
b) There was a clause that guaranteed slavery would be legal in the U.S. for the next 50 years.
c) The compromise allowed slavery to spread from the southern states to the northern states.
d) There was a strengthened fugitive slave law to help with the capture of escaped slaves.

2. QOTD
Which of the following was one of the terms of the Compromise of 1850 that was strongly supported by the South?
d) There was a strengthened fugitive slave law to help with the capture of escaped slaves.

3. Today’s Standard SSUSH 9
a. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott case, and John Brown’s Raid.

4. Compromise Fails – The South Secedes

5. Compromise Fails 1) The Compromise of 1850 didn’t do the job
The Fugitive Slave Law enraged the North
California’s admission as a free state enraged the South
2) Popular sovereignty would be the final attempt to solve the problem
As the territory won from the Mexican War was quickly being settled, a solution was needed
States’ populations would be allowed to choose whether to be slave or free states

6. A “Mini-War” In Kansas
3) The Kansas-Nebraska Act would be passed in 1854
Popular sovereignty would decide
4) A race to Kansas began between free soilers and pro-slavery settlers to fill up Kansas and gain a majority
5) The tension became violent when they began killing each other - Bleeding Kansas

7. 6) Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
March 1857
Dred Scott
Slave from Missouri
Lived in free territories
Sued for his freedom
Supreme court votes 7 to 2 against Scott
The North is outraged

8. John Brown’s Raid Harpers Ferry, Va October 16th, 1859
1) John Brown, a radical white abolitionist tries to start a slave rebellion
2) John Brown’s Raid
21 men, 5 African American
Raids a federal arsenal
Arsenal – a place where weapons are stored
Stopped by Col. Robert E. Lee
Eventually hanged
3) Slavery is no longer being argued in words, but now with bullets.

9. “A house divided cannot stand
“A house divided cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become one thing, or all the other.”
--Abraham Lincoln, 1858

10. The Election of 1860 1) Election of 1860
The Democratic and Republican Parties meet to choose candidates BUT….
Democrats in the U.S. can’t agree on slavery in territories
Southern Democrats wanted slaveowners’ rights protected
Northern Democrats wanted popular sovereignty
8 Southern Democratic states left and chose their own candidates
The Northern Democratic states stayed in Washington and chose their own candidates
The split made the Dems. Weaker and the Republicans stronger

11. President Abraham Lincoln
The result of this was that there were now two different elections going on in the country: one in the North, one in the South:
2a) North – Stephen Douglas vs. Abraham Lincoln
b) South – John Bell vs. John Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln didn’t even appear on Southern ballots
Most Southerners likely never had heard of him but…
3) Lincoln wins the election with not even one electoral vote from the South
The South is outraged

12. Abraham Lincoln – An Unlikely Candidate
Abraham Lincoln was not well known before he was elected president
He was born in Kentucky, and eventually moved to Illinois where he was elected to the House of Representatives
Eventually set his sights on the presidency
His views on slavery? Contrary to what many think, Lincoln didn’t initially believe African-Americans should be equal to whites
He actually supported legislation to send slaves back to Africa
He didn’t like slavery but he didn’t want to abolish it, just stop its expansion
He ran as a Republican candidate

13. “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
--Abraham Lincoln, 1858

14. The Lower South Secedes
Southern states felt like they had no say in gov’t after Lincoln’s victory
4) They begin calling for secession
Leaving the Union of states
5) South Carolina secedes December 20th 1860
Six other southern states follow
The Confederate States of America is born
Jefferson Davis, a former Mississippi Senator, was elected president of the CSA
All that was left now was a spark

15. Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States

16. Sectionalism Timeline
Put the eight events below in order in your thinking map.
In the boxes:
1) Put the events IN ORDER and draw and color a picture of the event
2) On the lines below write a sentence or two about how it either tried to solve the issue of slavery in the U.S., or how it led to the Civil War. THE EVENTS BELOW ARE NOT IN ORDER!
1) John Brown’s Raid
2) Wilmot Proviso
3) Election of Abraham Lincoln
4) Dred Scott Case
5) Nat Turner’s Rebellion
6) Missouri Compromise
7) Compromise of 1850
8) Mexican War

17. Unit 4 Study Guides So Far…
1) Sectionalism Intensifies – Abolitionists Speak Out
2) Mexican War / Compromise of 1850
3) Compromise Fails / Southern Secession