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The Rising Storm • Losing the bubble? • Sailors say the ship’s navigator has lost a clear sense of where he is and where he is bound
Uneasy Balances • Gag Rule (in Congress) • More states entering union: AK (Slave), MI (Free), TX (slave) • Congressional debates erupt in violence
Mexican Territory and the issue • Polk: Extend Missouri Com. To Pacific O • Douglas: Popular Sovereignty – • Wilmot Proviso: – – Wilmot’s answer to newly purchased territory from Mexico – Threats: secession, cut of commercial relations with North, refusal to pay debts owed to North – Never passed
1848 Election Lewis Cass Dem. - split Pop. Sov. Zachary Taylor Whig -Unknown political views Martin Van Buren Free Soil Party’s beliefs?
Free Soil Party Free Soil! Free Speech! Free Labor! Free Men! § “Barnburners” – discontented northern Democrats. § Anti-slave members of the Liberty and Whig Parties. § Opposition to the extension of slavery in the new territories! WHY?
The 1848 Presidential Election Results √
ß Problems of Sectional Balance California statehood. in 1850 ß Southern “fire-eaters” threatening secession. ß Underground RR & fugitive slave issues: § Personal liberty laws § Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
Compromise of 1850: A work in Progress over 9 months long
Elements of the Compromise 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Bonus: If Pres. Taylor was against this, how did it ultimately pass?
Fugitive Slave Act • “Personal Liberty Laws” as a means of combatting this Act • How did enforcement of this Act change the nation?
Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 § Sold 300, 000 copies in the first year. § 2 million in a decade! § “So this is the lady that started the civil war!” Abraham Lincoln
1852 Presidential Election Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott Democrat (NH) -Compr. 1850 supporter Whig John Parker Hale -Free Soil
1852 Election Results
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 Repeals Missouri Compromise Decide by Popular Sovereignty
“Bleeding Kansas” • Missouri border ruffians • Emigrant Aid Society - Abolitionist immigrants • Rival gov’ts --- violence ensues • Charles Sumner, “Crime against Kansas”
John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr? Mural in the Kansas Capitol building by John Steuart Curry (20 c)
“The Crime Against Kansas” Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)
Birth of the Republican Party, 1854 K-N Act Bleeding KS ß Opposed to expansion of slavery, not abolition ß Northern Anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats ß Free-Soilers, Know-Nothing’s ß Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
1856 Presidential Election James Buchanan (PA) Democrat John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Republican Whig
1856 Election Results
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand.
Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine Popular Sovereignty ?
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859
√ Abraham Lincoln Republican John Bell Constitutional Union 1860 Presidential Election Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat Stephen John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat
Republican Party Platform in 1860 ß Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers. ß Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists]. ß No abridgment of rights for immigrants [a disappointment for the “Know-Nothings”]. ß Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest]. ß Internal improvements [for the West] at federal expense. ß Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].
1860 Election: 3 “Outs” & 1 ”Run!”
1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart? !
1860 Election Results
Crittenden Compromise: A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing. KY)
Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860
Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861 A strategic Location
Events of that day • Union Major Robert Anderson needed reinforcements • He refused to abandon Fort Sumter • P. G. T. Beauregard and troops opened fire • After 34 hours, Anderson formally surrendered
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