The Coming of the Civil War

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The Coming of the Civil War
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• Mexican
• War
• (1846-1848)

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Missouri Compromise (1820)
Henry Clay
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• Texas, Oregon, the Gadsden Purchase

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David Wilmot
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• John C. Calhoun
• Calhoun Resolutions

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Zachary Taylor, 1848
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Stephen Douglas The Little Giant
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Millard Fillmore
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Compromise of 1850
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Franklin Pierce, 1852
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Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
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Voting on the Kansas Nebraska Act US House1854

• Total Votes
• 113 In favor
• 100 Against
• Whigs Democrats
• For Against For Against
• North 0 47 44 44
• South 14 7 55 2
• 14 54 99 46
• Total South 69 for 9 against
• Total North 44 for 91 against (only 7 of these
  44 are re-elected)

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Slave Power Conspiracy
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, Fremont
The Republican Party Candidates, 1856
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1856 Electoral Vote
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Bleeding Kansas
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Voting in Kansas, 1855

• Eligible Voters
• approx. 3,000
• Free Soil Votes
• 791
• Proslavery Votes
• ???
• ??? Judged fraudulent

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Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts The
Crime Against Kansas (May 1856)
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Sumner Brooks Affair, 1856
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Chief Justice Roger Taney
Dred Scott, Slave
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Abraham Lincoln, 1858

• . . . when we see a lot of framed timbers,
  different portions of which we know have been
  gotten out at different times and places, and by
  different workmen -- Stephen, Franklin, Roger,
  and James, for instance and when we see these
  timbers joined together, and see they exactly
  make the frame of a house or a mill . . . and
  not a piece too many or too few, -- not omitting
  even the scaffolding, -- or if a single piece be
  lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly
  fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in --
  in such a case we feel it impossible not to
  believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and
  James, all understood one another from the
  beginning and all worked upon a common plan or
  draft drawn before the first blow was struck.

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Fire Eaters
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Fugitive Slave Handbills
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Anthony Burns

• It costs over
• 40,000 to return
• Anthony Burns to
• slavery.

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Uncle Toms Cabin
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John Brown
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Democrats 1860
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Abraham Lincoln William Seward
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Constitutional Union PartyJohn Bell
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1860 Election
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Spelling/Vocabulary Lesson

• Secedeto withdraw from an organization,
  political entity or Union.
• Secessionthe act of withdrawing.
• Succeedto accomplish something desired or
  intended.
• Seceed is not a word
• In a sentence, Fire Eaters hoped that
  southerners would succeed when they seceded from
  the Union.

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Jefferson Davis
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Ft. Sumter
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