THE NATION BREAKING APART

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CHAPTER 15

• THE NATION BREAKING APART

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SECTION 1

• GROWING TENSIONS BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH

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DIFFERENCES IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH
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SLAVERY AND THE NORTH

• ABOLITIONIST END IMMEDIATELY
• ONLY A SMALL PERCENT WERE ABOLITIONIST
• MOST NORTHERNERS OPPOSED SLAVERY
• WORKERS FEARED THEY WOULD LOSE JOBS TO FORMERS
  SLAVES
• MOST WHITES WERE RACIST
• SOUTHERNERS THOUGHT SLAVES WERE BETTER OFF THAN
  WAGE SLAVES

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WILMONT PROVISO

• U.S. NEEDED A PLAN TO DEAL WITH LANDS WON FROM
  MEXICO
• WILMONT PROVISO
• OUTLAWED SLAVERY IN NEW TERRITORIES
• SOUTHRNERSWERE OUTRAGED
• CONGRESS DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL THEM
  WHERE THEY COULD TAKE THEIR PROPERTY
• DID NOT PASS
• FREE-SOIL PARTY
• FRE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LABOR, FREE MEN
• STOP THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY

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COMPROMISE OF 1850

• CALIFORNIA BECOMING A FREE STATE
• UPSET THE BALANCE IN THE SENATE
• HENRY CLAY WORKED OUT THE COMPROMISE OF 1850
• CALIFORNIA ENTER AS A FREE STATE
• WASHINGTON DC ABOLISH SLAVE TRADE
• TERRITORIES WOULD VOTE ON SLAVERY
• STRONGER RUNAWAY SLAVE LAWS
• STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS HELPED GET THE COMPROMISE
  PASSED THROUGH CONGRESS

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SECTION 1 QUIZ

• HOW IS THE NORTH BETTER THAN THE SOUTH?2
• IF MOST NORTHERNERS WERE OPPOSED TO SLAVERY WHY
  DID THEY NOT WANT IT TO END?3
• WHAT DID THE FRE-SOIL PARTY WANT?2
• WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM OF CALIFORNIA BECOMING A
  STATE?2
• HOW WOULD THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 KEEP THE BALANCE
  IN THE SENATE?4

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SECTION 2

• THE CRISIS DEEPENS

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FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• LAW TO CAPTURE RUNAWAY SLAVES
• NO TRIAL, A COMMISSIONER RULED
• 5 FOR RELEASING, 10 FOR SENDING BACK INTO
  SLAVERY
• IF NORTHERNERS DID NOT HELP THEY WERE FINED, JAIL
  TERMS FOR PEOPLE WHO HELP SLAVES ESCAPE

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UNCLE TOMS CABIN

• WRITTEN BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
• MORAL ISSUES OF SLAVERY
• ABOUT A SLAVES LIFE
• INCREASED ABOLITIONISM
• SOUTHERNERS THOUGHT IT FALSELY CRITICIZED SLAVERY

A PICTURE FROM UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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BLEEDING KANSAS

• KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
• STEPEN A. DOUGLAS INTRODUCED IT
• ORGANIZE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA INTO TERRITORIES
• SLAVERY WOULD BE DECIDED BY POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
• THIS GOES AGAINST THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• PROSLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY FORCES RUSHED TO
  KANSAS
• VIOLENCE WAS WIDE SPREAD
• JOHN BROWN MURDERED FIVE PROSLAVERY MEN IN
  LAWRENCE
• THIS CAUSED A WAR TO BREAK OUT IN KANSAS

JOHN BROWN
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SECTION 2 QUIZ

• WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU LIVED IN THE NORTH WHEN
  THE FUGITVE SLAVE ACT WAS IN EFFECT?5
• HOW WOULD YOU PORTRAY SLAVERY IF YOU WERE TO
  WRITE A BOOK ABOUT IT?5
• DEFINE POPULAR SOVERIENGTY.1
• WHAT WAS THE REASON FOR PEOPLE TO RUSH TO
  KANSAS?4
• WHAT IS YOUR OPION OF THE WAY PEOPLE ACTED IN
  KANSAS?6

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SECTION 34

• THE EFFECTS OF SLAVERY ON THE UNITED STATES

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SLAVERY AND POLITICS

• REPUBLICAN PARTY
• STOP THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY
• STARTED BECAUSE OF THE WHIGS SPLIT
• OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION OF 1856
• REPUBLICANS WERE A MAJOR FORCE IN THE NORTH
• THE NATION WAS SPLIT OVER SLAVERY

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ISSUES AND EVENTS

• THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT
• SUPREME COURT CASE
• SUED FOR HIS FREEDOM
• COURT RULED AGAINST DRED SCOT
• HE WAS NOT AN U.S. CITIZEN, HE WAS PROPERTY
• CONGRESS COULD NOT BAN SLAVERY IN TERRITORIES
• LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATES
• RUNNING FOR THE SENATE
• DOUGLAS WON BUT LINCOLN BECAME VERY POPULAR

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FORT AT HAPERS FERRY
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ELECTION OF 1860

• SLAVERY WAS A MAJOR ISSUE
• POLITICAL PARTIES SPLIT
• FOUR CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
• LINCOLN WINS THE ELECTION

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SOUTERN STATES SECEDE

• BECAUSE LINCOLN WINS THE ELECTION SOUTHERN STATES
  SECEDE
• SOUTH CAROLINA IS THE FIRST
• CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IS FORMED (CSA),
  CONFEDERCY
• JEFFERSON DAVIS IS ELECTED PRESIDENT
• LINCOLN RESPONSE
• HE DID NOT WANT TO END SLAVERY
• HE SPOKE AGAINST SECESSION
• HE WANTED NO INVASION INTO THE SOUTH

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SECTION 34 QUIZ

• WHAT WAS THE MAIN GOAL FOR THE NEW REPUBLICAN
  PARTY?.1
• HOW IS DRED SCOT RELATED TO THE SPREAD OF
  SLAVERY?4
• HOW DOES THEELECTION OF 1860 SHOW A SPLIT IN THE
  UNITED STATES?4
• HOW DID LINCOLN CAUSE THE SOUTHERN STATES TO
  SECEDE?4
• WHAT WAS LINCOLNS VIEW ON SLAVERY?2