The%201850s:

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The 1850s
Road to Secession
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Problems of Sectional Balancein 1850

• California statehood.
• Southern fire-eaters threateningsecession.
• Underground RR fugitive slave issues
• Personal liberty laws
• Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

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Compromise of 1850
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HarrietBeecherStowe(1811 1896)
So this is the lady who started the Civil War.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Uncle Toms Cabin 1852

• Sold 300,000 copies inthe first year.
• 2 million in a decade!

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Uncle Toms Cabin, 1852
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The Know-Nothings The American Party

• Nativists.
• Anti-Catholics.
• Anti-immigrants.

1849 ? Secret Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
created in NYC.
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1852 Presidential Election
v Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield
Scott John Parker Hale
Democrat Whig
Free Soil
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1852Election Results
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
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Bleeding Kansas
Border Ruffians(pro-slavery Missourians)
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The Crime Against Kansas
Sen. Charles Sumner(R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks(D-SC)
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John Brown Madman, Hero or Martyr?
Mural in the Kansas Capitol buildingby John
Steuart Curry (20c)
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Birth of the Republican Party, 1854

• Northern Whigs.
• Northern Democrats.
• Free-Soilers.
• Know-Nothings.
• Other miscellaneous opponents of the
  Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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1856 Presidential Election
v James Buchanan John C. Frémont
Millard Fillmore Democrat
Republican Whig
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1856Election Results
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Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
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What caused thePanic of 1857??
What were itsaffects on the nation?
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The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates,
1858
A House divided against itself, cannot stand.
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Stephen Douglas
the
Freeport Doctrine
PopularSovereignty?
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John Browns Raidon Harpers Ferry, 1859
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1860PresidentialElection
v Abraham LincolnRepublican
John BellConstitutional Union
Stephen A. DouglasNorthern Democrat
John C. BreckinridgeSouthern Democrat
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Republican Party Platform in 1860

• Non-extension of slavery for the Free-Soilers.
• Protective tariff for the No. Industrialists.
• No abridgment of rights for immigrants a
  disappointment for the Know-Nothings.
• Government aid to build a Pacific RR for the
  Northwest.
• Internal improvements for the West at federal
  expense.
• Free homesteads for the public domain for
  farmers.

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1860 Election 3 Outs 1 Run!
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1860 Election A Nation Coming Apart?!
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1860 Election Results
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Crittenden CompromiseA Last Ditch Appeal to
Sanity
Senator John J. Crittenden(Know-Nothing-KY)
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Secession! SC? Dec. 20, 1860
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Fort Sumter April 12, 1861