Road to Civil War

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Road To Civil War
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Road to Civil War

• Slavery
• States Rights

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Missouri Compromise 1820

• Missouri joins Union as a slave state

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Missouri Compromise 1820

• Maine joins Union as a free state

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Missouri Compromise 1820

• kept Senate equal

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Missouri Compromise 1820

• 36 30 '

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Missouri Compromise 1820

• North free states (refers to new states only)
• South Slave states (refers to new states only)

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Compromise of 1850

• 15 free states
• 15 slave states
• CA threatened to upset this balance

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Compromise of 1850

• Senator Henry Clay (KY) offered 4 point
  compromise
• CA applies as a free state
• No slave trade in D.C. (slavery okay)
• South- Fugitive Slave laws
• popular sovereignty in UT NM territories

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1852 Uncle Toms Cabin

• Serial column by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• brought the ills of slavery to the attention of
  all
• brought support to antislavery movement

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KS-NB Act 1854

• Stephen Douglas (IL) proposal for unorganized
  territory
• Popular sovereignty
• Bleeding Kansas

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Dred Scott Decision 1857

• Roger B. Taney (Chief Justice)
• Africans are not citizens
• MO compromise unconstitutional
• As a violation of depriving people of their
  property without due process
• Had effect of widening the political and social
  gap between North and South and took the nation
  closer to the brink of Civil War

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Election of 1860

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Lincoln wins election
• South secedes from Union