1. Chapter 10 The Union in Peril

2. Economic Differences in North and South South Agriculture Slavery Wealthy Small Population North Manufacturing Anti-Slavery More even Distribution of income Larger Population

3. Territorial Disputes over slavery California New Mexico Utah

4. Wilmot Proviso “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in any territory the United States might acquire as a result of the war with Mexico.” Simply that California, Utah, and New Mexico would be admitted to the Union as free States

5. As a result of the Gold Rush, California skipped the Territorial Phase of becoming a state

6. The Senate begins to debate the admission of these states as free states. End result is that the southern states begin screaming secession.

7. Compromise of 1850 Clay’s Compromise Admitted California as a free state More effective fugitive slave law Popular Sovereignty

8. Protest, Resistance, and Violence

9. Fugitive Slave Act Declared open season on all slaves in the north Policeman were given a free hand in returning slaves as fugitive, whether they were or not. Northern states passed Personal Liberty Laws

10. The Underground Railroad

11. Harriet Tubman Initiated the underground Railroad Soon other blacks and whites were conductors of the railroad Ex slave who was severely beaten

12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

13. Compare The Missouri Compromise (Slide A), Compromise of 1850(Slide B) and the Kansas-Nebraska Act(Slide C)

14. Slide A

15. Slide B

16. Slide C

17. Kansas-Nebraska Act North and South began to erupt into violence

18. 1 st was the Sack of Lawrence Thousands of Border ruffians swept into Kansas and voted to admit slavery. A posse of about 800 men went in and burned the antislavery headquarters to the ground

19. 2 nd was the “Pottawatomie Massacre John Brown caught wind of the sack of Lawrence and Decided that God had sent him to rid the world of slavery

20. John Brown Anti slavery Fanatic Called by God Bleeding Kansas Fled the territory Caught and Hanged at Harper’s Ferry

21. The Birth of the Republican Party

22. Whig Party split Whigs Opposed Fugitive Slave Act Lukewarm support to the Compromise of 1850 Know Nothing Party Nativism Order of the Star Spangled Banner Fence riders

23. Formation of Political Parties PARTYESTABLISHEDPLATFORMS Free Soil1848 Anti extension of slavery Pro Labor Know Nothing1854 (American Party) Anti-Immigration Anti-Catholic Whig1834 Pro-business Divided on Slavery Republican1854 Opposed expansion of slavery into territories Democratic1840 (Democratic- Republican) States Rights Limited Government Divided on slavery

24. Secession

25. Dred Scott Slave from Missouri Owner moved to free state Scott believed he should be free Owner moved back to slave state and took Scott with him Court ruled in favor of owner, slaves did not have the same rights as citizens

26. Change is own the Horizon A new Name begins to emerge as the savor for the Union

27. Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln

28. Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln Stephen Douglas John Breckinridge John Bell

30. Formation of the Confederate States of America Southern States formed together Jefferson Davis Union is in peril Southern states left the Union as soon as Lincoln won the election