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From Sectionalism to Secession
From Sectionalism
Compromise of 1850 (Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas)
 free soil vs popular sovereignty
 Fugitive Slave Law (1850)
Anthony Burns & Boston riot (1854)
Kansas Nebraska Act (1854) → “Bleeding Kansas” (1856-61)
Lecompton vs Topeka
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
…to Secession
The Election of 1860
Republicans: free-soil, high tariff, federal support for
internal improvements, federal land for settlers
Abraham Lincoln (Illinois)
Northern Democrats
Sen. Stephen Douglas (Illinois)
Southern Democrats: Congressional support of slavery
in the territories
VP John C. Breckinridge (Kentucky)
Constitutional Union Party: support the Union & ignore
the slavery question
John Bell (Tennessee)
Confederate States of America Feb 1861 (CSA), President Jefferson Davis
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 1861
…and Civil War (1861-65)
 the sides: the Union vs The Confederacy
 Anaconda Strategy
 Peace Democrats aka Copperheads
 President Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greely, editor of the New York Tribune, on August 22, 1862:
o “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy
slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it
by freeing all slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone
I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it
helps to save the Union …”
 Radical Republicans
 greenbacks = paper money
 Pacific Railroad Act (1862)
HIST 120
Dr. Schaffer