1. Birth of the Republican Party
Unit 6: Antebellum America

2. Evolution of Politics

3. Death of the Whig Party

4. Please Stop giving us your tired, Hungry and Poor…Wait that’s doesn’t sound right…
Nativism
Dislike IMMIGRATION
American Party
“Know Nothing Party”
Who Supports it?
Middle Class
White
Protestants

5. Free Soil Party Formed 1848 Disgruntled Party Leftovers
OPPOSES the extension of slavery
OPPOSES effects on White labor force.

6. Republican party is born
Unhappy Dems + Unhappy Whigs + Free Soilers = Republican Party
Party Platform
Oppose KS NE Act
Oppose the Expansion Of Slavery
AKA the “Black Republicans”

7. Election of 1856

8. Mr. Scott goes to Washington
Unit 6: Antebellum America

9. Dred Scott Decision The Case The Players Was Dred a Citizen?
Does RESIDENCY in FREE territory make you FREE?
The Players
Roger Taney
Dred Scott

10. Say whaaaaatttt? Dred Scott can never be a citizen
CAN’T Sue
Free Territory does NOT make a Slave Free.
5th Amendment does not apply
Missouri Compromise is overturned
Citizenship

11. Lincoln Douglass Debates
Unit 6 Antebellum America

12. Lincoln Douglas Debates
Major Players:
Stephen Douglas (D)
Abe Lincoln (R)
What they are fighting for
Senate Seat of IL
The Playing Field
7 Open Aired Debates

13. Lincoln Douglas Debates
Stephen Douglas
Slavery
Is IMMORAL
Federal Law to ban extension
Civil Rights
Deserve “Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness”
Not Citizenship
Right to vote
Right to hold office
Slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Territories choose
Got Ya Moment!
AL “How can residents prohibit slavery post Scott decision?”
SD “Ignore it!”
Freeport Doctrine
Infuriated the South

14. Results of the Lincoln Douglas Debates
Douglass Won Senate seat in 1858
Cost him Presidency in 1860
Lincoln Seeing into Future?
“A house divided against itself 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.”