The Road to War

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The Road to War

• I. Kansas-Nebraska Act
• 1. Senator Stephen A. Douglas
• 2. Divided Kansas Nebraska
• 3. Re-opened free soil territory
• to slavery
• a. Angered Northerners
• 4. Led to Bleeding-Kansas
• a. Popular Sovereignty
• -Abolitionists v. Pro-slavers

library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/kansas-nebras...
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II. Birth of the Republican Party

• 1. Northern Whigs
• 2. Free-Soil
• a. No slavery in new states
• III. Dread Scott Decision (1857)
• 1. A shot to abolitionists
• a. Slaves are property
• b. Congress may not deprive a
• slave owner of his property
• c. Missouri Compromise
• Unconstitutional
• -Government cannot
• prohibit slavery
• 2. Republicans challenge it

www.journaltimes.com/bhm/html/dred_scott.html
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IV. Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• 1. Outlined weakness of Dred Scott case
• a. Congress powerless?
• 2. Made Abe Lincoln famous
• a. Highly intelligent
• b. Charismatic
• c. 1st Republican President

www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/iht820111.html
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V. The South Secedes

• 1. South Carolina 1st
• 2. Confederate States of America
• 3. President Jefferson Davis
• 4. Capital _at_ Richmond VA

www.fort-mill.k12.sc.us/RVES/RVES20page/RVES...
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VI. The First Shots, 1861

• 1. Attack on Fort Sumter
• a. Union Fort in S. Carolina
• -Confederate soil
• b. Union demanded control
• C. Confederacy refused
• -opened fire
• Start of Civil War

www.civilwarhome.com/ftsumter.htm
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Questions

• 1. How did the following events lead to the Civil
  War?
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Election of Republican President Abe Lincoln
• Secession of South Carolina
• Shots at Fort Sumter