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Events leading to the Civil War
Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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The “Compromise” of 1850 Compromise of 1850 is the last great compromise. And it’s the last time you have the three old men of the senate, including clay and Calhoun.. Who didn’t love each other but who did respect each other. When they die, so does the nation’s willingness to compromise Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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John C. Calhoun Henry Clay Daniel Webster I AM AN AMERICAN!
There were 3 important senators who influenced the outcome of the Compromise of 1850 I AM AN AMERICAN! The SOUTH UNION is in danger!!! I want to seek the middle ground!
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Compromise of 1850 1. Congress would admit California as a free state
2. The people of the territories of New Mexico and Utah would decide for themselves whether slavery would be legal 3. Congress would abolish the sale of enslaved people in Washington, D.C. 4. Slavery itself would remain legal in Washington, D.C. 5. The Fugitive Slave Act would order all citizens of the United States to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their owners. It would also deny a jury trial to escaped slaves.
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Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Forcing slavery down the throat of a “freesoiler”
Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Charles Sumner, a Republican Senator from Massachusetts, denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in his "Crime Against Kansas" speech on May 19th and 20th. As Sumner began to stand up, Brooks began beating Sumner on the head with a thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head before he could reach his feet. Summer was knocked down and trapped under the heavy desk that was bolted to the floor, but Brooks continued to bash Sumner until he ripped the desk from the floor. By this time, Sumner was blinded by his own blood, and he staggered up the aisle and collapsed, lapsing into unconsciousness. Brooks continued to beat Sumner until he broke his cane, then quietly left the chamber. Several other Senators tried to help Sumner, but were prevented by Keitt who was holding a pistol and shouting, "Let them be!" Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Buchanan inadequately grasped the political realities of the time
Failed to understand that the North would not accept constitutional arguments which favored the South The Democrats SPLIT which gives rise to the republicans. Sectional strife rose to such a pitch in 1860 that the Democratic Party split into northern and southern wings, each nominating its own candidate for the Presidency President Buchanan, dismayed and hesitant, denied the legal right of states to secede but held that the Federal Government legally could not prevent them. He hoped for compromise, but secessionist leaders did not want compromise Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped inadequately the political realities of the time. Relying on constitutional doctrines to close the widening rift over slavery, he failed to understand that the North would not accept constitutional arguments which favored the South. Nor could he realize how sectionalism had realigned political parties: the Democrats split; the Whigs were destroyed, giving rise to the Republicans. Sectional strife rose to such a pitch in 1860 that the Democratic Party split into northern and southern wings, each nominating its own candidate for the Presidency. Consequently, when the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln, it was a foregone conclusion that he would be elected even though his name appeared on no southern ballot. Rather than accept a Republican administration, the southern "fire-eaters" advocated secession. President Buchanan, dismayed and hesitant, denied the legal right of states to secede but held that the Federal Government legally could not prevent them. He hoped for compromise, but secessionist leaders did not want compromise Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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The Dred Scott Decision What makes a person free?
Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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CAN’T THIS PROBLEM JUST GO AWAY?!
Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Hmmm… look familiar???
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What are some SPECIFIC things you think they debated about?
Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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“Public sentiment is everything
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed. In the words of Henry Clay “The moral lights would be blown out around us.” -Abraham Lincoln Lincoln wasn’t for TOTAL equality, yet. But he did attempt to make people see the basics of the situation of slavery. “I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.”
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Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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Comp. of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Bleeding Sumner Dred Scott Decision Lincoln- Douglass Election of 1860 Attack on Fort Sumner Fug. Slave Act Bleeding Kansas Buchanan’s Victory Lecompton Constitution Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry South Secedes Beginning of the Civil War!
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