1. The Road to War I. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1. Senator Stephen A. Douglas
2. Divided Kansas & Nebraska
3. Re-opened free soil territory
to slavery
a. Angered Northerners
4. Led to Bleeding-Kansas
a. Popular Sovereignty
-Abolitionists v. Pro-slavers
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2. II. Birth of the Republican Party
1. Northern Whigs
2. “Free-Soil”
a. “No slavery in new states…”
III. Dread Scott Decision (1857)
1. A shot to abolitionists
a. Slaves are property
b. Congress may not deprive a
slave owner of his property
c. Missouri Compromise=
Unconstitutional
-”Government cannot
prohibit slavery…”
2. Republicans challenge it

3. IV. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1. Outlined weakness of Dred Scott case
a. “Congress powerless?”
2. Made Abe Lincoln famous
a. Highly intelligent
b. Charismatic
c. 1st Republican President

4. V. The South Secedes 1. South Carolina 1st
2. Confederate States of America
3. President Jefferson Davis
4. Richmond VA

5. VI. The First Shots, 1861 1. Attack on Fort Sumter
a. Union Fort in S. Carolina
-Confederate soil
b. Union demanded control
C. Confederacy refused
-opened fire
*Start of Civil War

6. Questions 1. How did the following events lead to the Civil War?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Election of Republican President Abe Lincoln
Secession of South Carolina
Shots at Fort Sumter