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Leading to a Civil War Leading to a Civil War Events leading to the Secession of the South – Sucession "to withdraw formally from a union or alliance” Southern individual states nullified their ratification of the U.S. constitution The Process of Secession Leading to a Civil War Events leading to the Secession of the South – Political Sectionalism • Missouri Compromise 1820 – Missouri - slave state – Maine - free state – Entry of states into the Union have to be balanced - one free/one slave • Gag Rule of 1836 • Compromise of 1850 – California a free state – Slavery allowed in the other territories acquired from Mexico Slave and Free Territories Under the Compromise of 1850 Leading to a Civil War Events leading to the Secession of the South – Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 • organized 2 new federal territories • repealed section of Missouri Compromise • prohibiting slavery in states/territories north of 36º 30’ latitude • people decide (popular sovereignty) “Bleeding Kansas” Leading to a Civil War Events leading to the Secession of the South – Change in 2 party system • Democrats & Whigs – Democrats (dough faces) • needed northern candidate to win because of the number of southerners • F. Pierce 1852, J. Buchanan 1856, Douglas ? – Whigs • Kansas & Nebraska Act killed party divided sectionally • North & South too far apart on slavery issue to hold party together Leading to a Civil War Events leading to the Secession of the South – Change in 2 party system • Democrats & Whigs • Whigs & Free Soilers = Republicans • * only a northern party – tolerate slavery in south – unwilling to accept it's expansion – demand that the Kansas & Nebraska Act be repealed – central railroad (rather than northern as Douglas proposed) – Homestead Act - western lands to families to settle 160 acres Leading to a Civil War Events leading to the Secession of the South – Dred Scott Decision 1857 – Southern dominated court • Slaves were property • "congress could not ban slavery from territories” • Chief Justice Roger Taney Leading to a Civil War Events leading to the Secession of the South – The Election of 1860 • Aggressive movements of pro slave movement – frightened north – Hardened resistance in North – intensified southern insecurity • South demands - congressional slave codes Leading to a Civil War Events leading to the Secession of the South – The Election of 1860 • Freeport Doctrine – legislation to protect slave property in north – Lead to a division of the Democratic Party • Northern Democrats - Stephen Douglas – appealed to North & South but ambiguous • Southern Democrats - John Breckenridge – Appealed to south - popular sovereignty • Republicans - Abraham Lincoln • Constitutional Union Party - John Bell The Election of 1860 LEADING TO A CIVIL WAR Events Leading to the Secession of the South – Political Sectionalism • • • • Missouri Compromise Gag Rule Compromise of 1850 Wilmot Proviso – Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 – Dred Scot Decision 1857 – Election of 1860 The Confederate States of America Leading to a Civil War The Confederate States of America – Constitution 1787 (1789 9 states ratified - 4 didn't) • established government • Constitution states that states can't coin money and can’t maintain an army but can they secede? – Southern Position held that the Constitution did not automatically bind states – Individual States first . . . then United STATES UNITED Leading to a Civil War The Confederate States of America – Individual States first . . . then United STATES UNITED – 11 southern states seceded and formed their own country – North says no you can't leave = 4 long years of fighting – CIVIL (internal) War - settle question about whether a state can succeed • Pre Civil War The United States are • Post Civil War The United States is Leading to a Civil War The Confederate States of America – Radicals - fire eaters • South Carolinians since Nullification Controversy – South Carolina state convention Dec 20, 1860 • repeal ratification of federal constitution – 6 weeks later MI, Fl, GA, Al, LA, TX succeed – Delegates to Montgomery Alabama • organized themselves as the C.S. of A. • Jefferson Davis - President ( Mississippi) Leading to a Civil War • ". . . it presents the question whether discontented individuals too few in numbers to control administration according to organic law in any case, can always upon the pretenses made in this case, or on any other pretense, break up their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government, of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people or too weak to maintain its own existence?" Lincoln - July 4, 1861 following Ft. Sumter