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The 1850s: Road to Secession
- Compromise of 1850
- 1) CA shall be a free state
- 2) stronger fugitive slave laws
- 3) no slave trade in Wash. DC
- 4) popular sovereignty
- 4) popular sovereignty
- 3) no slave trade in Wash. DC
- 2) stronger fugitive slave laws
- Henry Clay; settled tensions only temporarily
- 1) CA shall be a free state
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- written by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
- was exposed to slaves & their stories... but not first-hand
- written by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
- proposed by Stephen Douglas
- personally benefitted him b/c he owned land out there & there was a
possibility of a railroad
- personally benefitted him b/c he owned land out there & there was a
possibility of a railroad
- open area to settlers
- Nebraska (free) & Kansas (determined by pop. sovereignty)
- proposed by Stephen Douglas
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Illinois Senate (1858)
- foreshadows a future election: 1860
- believed slavery was a
horrible thing that needed
to be eliminated but felt
more strongly about
keeping the Union
together; didn't believe in
racial equality
- Illinois Senate (1858)
- 1860 Election Political Cartoon
- showed Lincoln trying to hold together the
two pieces of the N & S (fabric map)
- shows Douglas & others tearing
the map apart (showing their
belief in division)
- showed Lincoln trying to hold together the
two pieces of the N & S (fabric map)
- Crittenden Compromise
- proposed by Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing Party, KY)
- was practically a copy of the Missouri Compromise
- was unsuccessful (SC secedes in Dec of 1860)
- was unsuccessful (SC secedes in Dec of 1860)
- was practically a copy of the Missouri Compromise
- proposed by Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing Party, KY)
- The Crimes Against Kansas
- Charles Sumner (ANTI) & Preston Brooks (PRO)
- Brooks is expelled from
HOR and then re-elected
- a physical fight that broke
out on the floor of the
Senate
- highlights the extent of sectionalism that was brewing; used as propaganda in N
- Brooks is expelled from
HOR and then re-elected
- Charles Sumner (ANTI) & Preston Brooks (PRO)
- "Bleeding Kansas"
- both sides of extremists flood into Kansas
- people from Missouri (Slave State) vote illegally & forcefully (a.k.a. Border "Ruffians")
- ends up having both a slave & free government
- ends up having both a slave & free government
- unexpectedly is voted to become a slave state
- people from Missouri (Slave State) vote illegally & forcefully (a.k.a. Border "Ruffians")
- both sides of extremists flood into Kansas
- John
Brown's
Raid on
Harper's
Ferry
(1859 in
VA)
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