1. Road to War
Decade of Crisis

3. The Decade of Crisis

4. Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American War
One part admitted California as a free state
The Slave TRADE was abolished in Washington D.C.
The Fugitive Slave Law was passed which required Americans to help capture runaway slaves, even if they were in free territory
Allowed popular sovereignty over the New Mexico Territory
Popular Sovereignty is the idea that a state can vote whether to enter the Union as a free state or a slave state

5. Compromise of 1850

6. Opposition to the Compromise
Many southerners opposed the Compromise because it disturbed the balance of power in the senate
They also thought it unconstitutional to abolish the slave trade in the D.C.
However the south supported a fugitive slave law, but that law was opposed in the north

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a book about the sufferings of Slaves
The south will ban it, the north will become more abolitionist

8. Kansas-Nebraska Act Happens because of the Transcontinental Railroad
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery.
This is known as Popular Sovereignty
This Nullified the Missouri Compromise
The result was bleeding Kansas where hundreds died in a mini civil war trying to make Kansas either Slave or Free

9. Kansas-Nebraska Act

10. Changes from Missouri Compromise to Kansas-Nebraska Act1 3 2

11. Caning of Sumner
Senator Preston Brooks will beat Sen. Charles Sumner in the Senate over a debate about slavery

12. Birth of the Republican Party
Coalition of democrats, Whigs, Free Soilers, and Know Nothings
Opposed expansion of slavery to new territories
Did not adopt an anti-slavery campaign

13. Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri, his master moved him to free territory
He sued to be free since he was in free territory
The supreme court said no “A black man does not have any rights a white man must respect”
This nullifies all compromises and says that slavery can go anywhere

14. James Buchanan

15. -It failed and John Brown was hanged by Virginia
John Brown’s Raid
-Hoped to seize weapons at federal arsenal in Virginia and give them to slaves.
-It failed and John Brown was hanged by Virginia
John Brown

16. Results of John Brown’s Raid
The south believes northern abolitionists are trying to advocate slave rebellion
The south begins to form militias to help put down any rebellion
This is the beginning of the Confederate Army