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Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854– 1861. Summarize the following. How were they viewed by each side? What were the consequences of each? The Missouri Compromise.

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1 Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854– 1861

2 Summarize the following. How were they viewed by each side? What were the consequences of each? The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Fugitive Slave Law The Kansas-Nebraska Act

3 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Several hundred thousand copies were published in the first year; millions in subsequent years National and international impact

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7 Spirit pp.304-306 Read excerpt from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Southern response (first two paragraphs) Do brief document analysis – POV – Significance

8 Bleeding Kansas

9 Map 19-1 p399

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11 Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks

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14 “Old Buck” Versus “The Pathfinder”

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16 The Election of 1856

17 Map 19-2 p403

18 Dred Scott March 6, 1857 Dred Scott, a slave, lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory (free territory) He sued for his freedom S.C. ruled that Scott was not a citizen It also ruled that, as property, a slave could be taken into any territory

19 Implications? Turn and talk

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21 Spirit, pp.310-313 Documents C 1-3 Brief document analysis – POV – Significance

22 The Financial Crash of 1857

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25 The Great Debate: Lincoln Versus Douglas

26 A House Divided http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincol n/house-divided-speech-june-16-1858/ http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincol n/house-divided-speech-june-16-1858/

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28 John Brown: Murderer or Martyr?

29 The Disruption of the Democrats

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31 A Rail-Splitter Splits the Union

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33 The Electoral Upheaval of 1860

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35 Map 19-3 p411

36 The Secessionist Exodus

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39 The Collapse of Compromise Crittenden amendments – Slavery in the territories prohibited above 36 30 – Slavery given federal protection below – All future states could decide for themselves how they came into the Union Lincoln rejected the compromise

40 Secession South Carolina (unanimously), Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas Confederate States of America created in February 1861 – Jefferson Davis chosen as president

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