1. Sectionalism Issue: Should the price of Western land be High or Low?
North: HIGH This would prevent northern workers from moving out west in search of land.
South: LOW Low prices would make it easier to spread slavery and expand the cotton industry. Replace land worn out from farming.
West: LOW
Low prices would encourage people to come and settle the west.

2. Sectionalism Issue: Should Workers be Free Men or Slaves?
North: FREE Workers should be free men and have the ability to select the occupation they are best suited for. Slave labor would be a threat to the working man
South: SLAVE Slave labor is necessary to do the hard work of producing cotton, The south’s “White Gold”. Owners argued that without slavery they would be unable to hire enough workers to harvest cotton
West: FREE
Workers in the west do not want slave labor in their section. Slave labor would steal jobs away from free whites.

3. Sectionalism Issue: Should the U. S
Sectionalism Issue: Should the U.S. have a High or Low protective tariff?
North: HIGH Tariffs would protect northern businesses by increasing the prices of foreign imports.
This results in more people purchasing American-made goods.
South: LOW
High U.S. tariffs would cause other nations to have higher taxes on Southern farm goods which would cut into their profits.
Low tariffs would keep farming costs down.
West: HIGH
Money raised by the tariffs could be used to build roads and bridges which would allow farmers in the west to transport their raw materials to Northeastern factories. This would enable them to make more money.

4. Sectionalism Issue: Should the U. S
Sectionalism Issue: Should the U.S. make Internal Improvements (Bridges + Roads)? Yes or NO
North: YES
Better roads would allow them to sell their goods out in the west and receive raw materials from the West.
South: NO
Money spent would empty the treasury and would cause the government to raise taxes, resulting in more costs for Southern plantation owners.
West: YES
Better roads would allow western farmers to sell their goods to the northeast and increase access to manufactured goods from the Northeast.

5. Sectionalism Issue: Should the U. S
Sectionalism Issue: Should the U.S. increase the supply of money, ultimately causing inflation.?
North: NO
Northerners were often money lenders. Increasing the supply of money would lessen the value of each dollar that will be repaid on loans.
South: YES
Farmers were often in debt. Greater supply of money would enable them to inflate prices and pay off debts faster.
West: YES
More money in circulation would make it easier for Westerners to pay off their debts.

6. Sectionalism: Loyalty to one’s sectional interests
1. Who is the man in the cartoon?
2. What are the different regions shown in the cartoon?
3. What are the economic ways of life of each of these regions?
4. What is happening to the man in the cartoon?

7. The Bottom Line
As you can see the North and South differed on these five important issues.
This led to a power struggle between these two sections of the nation.
The section that controlled the federal government would be able to set economic policy that would affect the very livelihood of the other.
Political power became crucial to their economic interests.

8. Balance of Free and Slave States (1819)
The Missouri Question - Northerners were against adding Missouri to the union as a slave state because it would disrupt the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states.
Illinois (1818)
Alabama (1819)
Indiana (1816)
Mississippi (1817)
Ohio (1803)
Louisiana (1812)
Vermont (1791)
Tennessee (1796)
Rhode Island
Kentucky (1792)
New York
Virginia
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Balance of Free and Slave States (1819)
Original 13 States
Free States
Slave States

9. Balance of Free and Slave States (1821)
Missouri Compromise
• Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state, and Maine was admitted as a free state.
Maine (1820)
Missouri (1821)
Illinois (1818)
Alabama (1819)
Indiana (1816)
Mississippi (1817)
Ohio (1803)
Louisiana (1812)
Vermont (1791)
Tennessee (1796)
Rhode Island
Kentucky (1792)
New York
Virginia
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Original 13 States
Free States
Slave States

10. • An imaginary line was drawn across the southern border of Missouri at the latitude 36 30'N.
36 , 30’

11. • Slavery was banned north of 36 , 30'N, except for Missouri.
• Slavery was allowed in the part of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 36 , 30'N.
• Slavery was banned north of 36 , 30'N, except for Missouri.
Sectionalism – loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country.

12. Slave States Free States Original 13 States California (1850)
Wisconsin (1848)
Texas (1845)
Iowa (1846)
Florida (1845)
Michigan (1837)
Arkansas (1836)
Maine (1820)
Missouri (1821)
Slave States
Free States
Illinois (1818)
Alabama (1819)
Indiana (1816)
Mississippi (1817)
Ohio (1803)
Louisiana (1812)
Vermont (1791)
Tennessee (1796)
Rhode Island
Kentucky (1792)
New York
Virginia
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Original 13 States

13. IV. The Fugitive Slave Law was passed.
Compromise of 1850
I. California became a free state.
II. The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into two parts; Utah (UT) and New Mexico (NM).
* people in UT and NM used popular sovereignty (a vote of the people) to decide on the slavery issue
III. The slave trade ended in Washington, D.C.
IV. The Fugitive Slave Law was passed.

14. Compromise of 1850

16. The Fugitive Slave Law
• All Americans, by law, were required to help catch runaway slaves.
• You could be fined and/or imprisoned for helping a runaway slave.
• This law infuriated northerners!
Cazenovia, MA, Fugitive Slave Law Convention held on 21 and 22 August 1850; Frederick Douglass is seated at the right side of the table.

18. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Sold 300,000 copies in the first year.
2 million in a decade!

19. Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The book portrays slavery from a slave’s perspective.
Broke down the stereotype that slaves were a sub-human, animal-like race.
Showed slaves as caring people with the same feelings and emotions as whites.
Convinced many in the North that slavery was evil and must be abolished.
Southerners call the book a “pack of lies” and become more determined to defend slavery.

20. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)
So this is the lady who started the Civil War Abraham Lincoln

21. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

22. Kansas-Nebraska Act
II. The people of each territory voted on whether or not to allow slavery. (popular sovereignty)

23. The Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise
* The Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise. Both territories were north of 36 , 30’ N and should NOT have been allowed to have slaves.

24. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854
In response to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Republican party was formed.
Party platform:
Free Labor
Free Soil
Free Men
Opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories of the west.

25. Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)
“Bleeding Kansas”
Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)

26. * In 1856, an abolitionist named John Brown murdered five proslavery men.
* Over 200 people died in the fighting that followed.
The abolitionist John Brown lived in Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. Brown and his sons were responsible for the brutal murder of several proslavery men near Pottawatomie, Kansas.  The men were called out of their homes at night and hacked to death with swords. This was just one of many incidents that earned Kansas Territory the name of "Bleeding Kansas.”

27. “Bleeding Kansas”
Before the vote on slavery:
• Northerners crossed the border to keep KS a free state.
• Southerners crossed the border to make KS a slave state.
• Both sides claimed victory on the vote!
Kansas became a free state in 1861

28. “The Crime Against Kansas”
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

29. On May 19, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, was attacked by Congressmen Preston Brooks. Sumner was speaking out against Pro-Slavery senators and Brooks took exception.

30. Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

31. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS:
• Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri. (MO)
Dred Scott

32. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS:
• Scott and his owner moved to Wisconsin for four years.
Dred Scott

33. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS:
• Scott’s owner died after returning to Missouri.
Dred Scott

34. Dred Scott Decision - FACTS:
* Scott sued for his freedom. He claimed that he should be a free man since he lived in a free territory (WI) for four years.
Dred Scott

35. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS:
Q: Was Scott a U.S. citizen with the right to sue?
A: NO
Q: Did living in a free territory make Scott a free man?
A: NO
Q: Did Congress have the right to outlaw slavery in any territory?
A: NO

36. RESULTS:
• Dred Scott was not given his freedom.
• The Missouri Compromise was found to be unconstitutional.
Southerners viewed the decision as a victory and refused to accept any limitations on slavery in the territories
Open to slavery through popular sovereignty (KS-NE Act)
Open to slavery through popular sovereignty (Compromise of 1850)
Missouri Compromise line is declared unconstitutional (Dred Scott Decision)

37. The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858
A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

38. Lincoln – Douglas Debates
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged incumbent Stephen Douglas for his seat in the Senate.
(Incumbent – the holder of an office or position)
Abraham Lincoln (left) and Stephen Douglas (right)

39. Lincoln – Douglas Debates
Stephen Douglas:
• Lincoln was wrong for wanting to limit the expansion of slavery.
• If Lincoln tried to end slavery, the U.S. could face a civil war.
• Douglas believed that each territory should be able to decide on its’ own whether or not to allow slavery by using popular sovereignty.

40. Lincoln – Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln:
• Lincoln believed that slavery was evil and should be kept out of the territories.
• Lincoln believed that African Americans were guaranteed “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, as stated in the Declaration of Independence.

41. Lincoln – Douglas Debates Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Video (2:13)
Results:
• Douglas won the election by a slim margin.
• However, Lincoln became well known throughout the nation.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates: Video (2:13)

42. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

43. John Brown’s Raid:
• In 1859, John Brown and his followers seized a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Part of a bigger plan to start a national slave rebellion.
John Brown in August, 1859.

44. Engine house at Harpers Ferry.

45. Marines storm the engine house.

46. • Brown was caught and sentenced to death by hanging.
Brown as a wounded prisoner after his capture.

47. Brown being carried from court to prison.

48. "Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done."  --John Brown, statement at his sentencing on Nov. 2, 1859

49. Last Moments of John Brown (painting by Thomas Hovenden)

50. The hanging of John Brown.

51. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?
Mural in the Kansas Capitol building by John Steuart Curry (20c)

52. 1860 Presidential Election
√ Abraham Lincoln Republican
John Bell Constitutional Union
1860 Presidential Election
Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat

53. 1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!

54. Republican Party Platform in 1860
Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers. Free Homesteads for Farmers.
Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists].
No abridgment of rights for immigrants [a disappointment for the “Know-Nothings”].
Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest].
Internal improvements [for the West] at federal expense.

55. 1860
Election
Results

56. Stephen Douglas (Northern Democrat) (Constitutional Union)
Election of 1860:
Main Candidates
Abraham Lincoln
(Republican)
John Breckinridge
(Southern Democrat)
Stephen Douglas (Northern Democrat)
John Bell
(Constitutional Union)
* Lincoln won the election.

58. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

59. Original Confederate flag Eventual Confederate flag
Secession:
• In response to Lincoln’s victory, the southern states seceded from the Union in 1861, forming the Confederate States of America.
Original Confederate flag
Eventual Confederate flag

60. * The Civil War had now begun!
Fort Sumter
• Fort Sumter, South Carolina, was important because it guarded Charleston harbor
• Therefore, the Confederates attacked, defeating the Union soldiers.
* The Civil War had now begun!

61. Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor April 12 and 13, 1861

62. Fort Sumter, S.C., April 4, 1861, under the Confederate flag.

63. Civil War: Union v. Confederacy

64. • Jefferson Davis was named the president of the Confederacy.