Impending Crisis

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Impending Crisis Civil War

• Key Terms
• Brooks vs. Sumner
• Dred Scott Decision
• John Browns Raid
• 1860 Election
• Border States
• Emancipation Proclamation

• Crises
• Fight
• Scott
• Harpers Ferry
• Election
• Candidates
• Results
• War (1861-65)
• Fort Sumter
• After

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Brooks vs. Sumner-1856(Tensions Continued To
Rise)

• Senator Charles Sumner Representative Preston
  Brooks fought on the floor of the US Senate.

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Dred Scott Case (1857)
Dred Scott (A Slave)
Resided in Illinois (free state) Wisconsin (a
territory made free by Congress) for many years.
He sued to obtain his freedom.
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Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Chief Justice

• Scott was not freed
• Slaves ( all blacks) were denied citizenship
  rights slaves property

• Congress cannot prohibit slavery anywhere (only
  states have this power)

Roger Taney (1777-1864)
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Impact Of Dred Scott

• Infuriated Northerners as they feared slavery
  could expand to new areas.
• Demonstrated slavery was a NATIONAL problem not
  just Southern.

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John Browns Raid(1859)

• Brown was an abolitionist
• Raided the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA.
• Goal Take munitions lead a slave rebellion

• He was captured executed

1800-1859
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John Browns Raid(1859)
Officer who led capture of Brown
Brown on trial
Robert E. Lee
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Impact Of John Browns Raid

• It made Southerners fearful that maybe ALL in the
  North were abolitionists.
• A final straw?

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1860 Election
Stephen Douglas (Northern Democrat)

• Supported Popular Sovereignty

John Breckinridge (Southern Democrat)

• Supported expansion of slavery into territories

Abraham Lincoln (Republican)

• Allow slavery to remain where it already exists
  but no new expansion

John Bell (Constitutional Union)

• Stood for Constitution, Union, enforcement of
  laws

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Following Lincolns Victory

• Seven states seceded (even before his
  inauguration)
• Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
  South Carolina Florida

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Fighting Begins

• Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fight for
  Union following attack on Fort Sumter (April,
  1861).
• Four more Southern states seceded.
• Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee

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Border States

• Slave states which remained loyal to the Union.
• Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland,
  Delaware

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Emancipation Proclamation(Effective 1/1/1863)

• Declared that slaves residing in states in
  rebellion against the Union were freed.
• It did not free any slaves in the states that
  remained loyal to the Union.

1862
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Results of the Civil War(1861-1865)

• Slavery endedbut what about the newly freed
  slaves?
• More than 600,000 Americans died
• WWII 209 deaths per 100,000 (total pop)
• Civil War 2,000 deaths per 100,000 (total pop)
• Much of the South was destroyedhow would it be
  rebuilt?

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Impending Crisis Civil War

• Key Terms
• Brooks vs. Sumner
• Dred Scott Decision
• John Browns Raid
• 1860 Election
• Border States
• Emancipation Proclamation

• Crises
• Fight
• Scott
• Harpers Ferry
• Election
• Candidates
• Results
• War (1861-65)
• Fort Sumter
• After