1. The 1850's, Campaigns and Elections 9-25

2. The 1850's, Campaigns and Elections Discontent in the South Discontent in the North Elections 1825-1860

3. Discontent in the South Compromise of 1850 Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Birth of the Republican Party

4. Compromise of 1850 Said that all states should be able to choose whether or not to have slaves

5. Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

6. Birth of the Republican Party March 20th, the Republican Party was born in a Ripon, Wisconsin schoolhouse.

7. Discontent in the South Bleeding Kansas Lincoln-Douglas Debates John Brown’s Raid

8. Bleeding Kansas Caused by the Kansas- Nebraska Act, 1854

9. Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged United States Senator Stephen Douglas’s support of a law allowing slavery in free territory.

10. Lincoln-Douglas Debates

11. October 16, 1859 Harper’s Ferry, VA John Brown’s Raid

12. Discontent in the North Ostend Manifesto Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Sumner-Brooks incident

13. Ostend Manifesto US tries to buy Cuba from Spain- 1854

14. Sumner-Brooks Incident

15. Discontent in the North Dred Scott decision The influx of German and Irish immigrants Panic of 1857

16. Dred Scott Decision 1846 – Scott v. Sandford

17. 1852 Elections Decline of the Whig Party

18. 1856 Elections Rise of the Republican Party

19. 1856 Elections Know- Nothing Party

20. 1860 Elections Four Candidates

21. 1860 Elections Lincoln- Republican Party

22. 1860 Elections Douglas- Northern Democrats

23. 1860 Elections Breckinridge- Southern Democrats

24. 1860 Elections Bell- Constitutional Union

25. Effects of the 1860 Elections

26. Secession of South Carolina and the Lower South

27. Order of Secession 1.) South Carolina-December, 1860 2.) Georgia-January 29, 1861 3.) Mississippi-January 1861 4.) Texas-February 2, 1861

28. Effects of the 1860 Elections Efforts at Compromise