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11. MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• 1819
– 11 free states
– 11 slave
states
• Henry Clay
– Missourislave
– Maine-free
12. In the election of 1848, many Whigs opposed
Zachary Taylor because he was a
slaveholder. He won the election to become
the 12th President.
Zachary Taylor
FreeSoiler
Martin Van Buren
Whig
13. California’s application for statehood
touched off a long and bitter debate between
the North and South because it would tip the
balance of power to the free states.
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15. What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed
slavery as a brutal, cruel system?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
16. Millard Fillmore took over the presidency
upon the death of Taylor to become the 13th
President of the U.S.
Henry Clay =The Great
Compromiser
17. Stephen A. Douglas took
up the fight for him. His plan
was called the Compromise of
1850.
18. Compromise of 1850=
was a plan to save the Union
from continued conflict
18. The last Whig president, Millard Fillmore signed
the Compromise of 1850.
doesn’t get nominated by Whig party for re election
19. A person could be fined up to $1,000, or be imprisoned
for breaking the law, stated in the Fugitive Slave Act.
The law required citizens to help catch runaway enslaved
people.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 divided the
Nebraska Territory into two separate
territories.
Northerners were angry.
20. Franklin Pierce
21. Problems with the Kansas-Nebraska Act
1. It repealed the Missouri Compromise.
2. It led to violence in Kansas.
3. It outraged the Northerners and
moved the country closer to war..
22. Stephen A. Douglas proposed letting the
people decide about slavery through
popular sovereignty.
23.Missourians who traveled in
armed groups to cross the
border and vote in elections
became known as Border
Ruffians.
By 1856, hundreds of people had been killed
in Kansas as a result of violence.
1861 Kansas = free state.
24. guerrilla warfare =
hit and run tactics
25. The Dred Scott case
•Ruled against Scott
•Basically made slavery
legal in territories
•Outraged the North
A New Political Party
Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and FreeSoilers joined together to form the
Republican Party.
26. The Republican Party was formed to
oppose the expansion of slavery in the
West.
27. James Buchanan became the 15th
President of the U.S. due to large support
in the South.
28. Abraham Lincoln
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Entered Politics in 1832 – lost race for state legislature
1834 he runs again and wins
By 1836 studies law and receives attorney license
Belonged to Whig Party for 20 years
1834-1841 served in Illinois state legislature
1846 elected to House of Representatives
1858 challenges Stephen Douglas to a debate for Senate seat
Lincoln –Douglas Debates
In July of 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged
Stephen Douglas to a series of debates,
or public discussions, on slavery.
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Armory = is a storehouse for weapons.
Federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
30. What was the goal of John Brown’s raid on
Harper’s Ferry?
Destroy slavery and bring it to an end
Government authorities convicted John Brown
of murder and treason and sentenced him to
hang on December 2, 1859.
•Lasted 36 hours
30. He wanted to destroy
slavery and bring it to an end.
This made him a martyr
•10 men including 2 of
his sons killed
•He and his raiders killed
3 civilians, 1 marine, and
2 slaves
•Robert E. Lee led the US
Marines for President
Buchanan
Election of 1860
31. Abraham Lincoln was elected president in
1860 to become the 16th President of the U.S.
31. South felt that because Lincoln was elected that the
government was against their interests.
Reaction to the election of 1860 results?
Secession of southern states
32. The first state to secede from the union
was South Carolina.
33. In February of
1861, delegates met
in Alabama to form
the Confederate
States of America.
Jefferson Davis was
elected as President
of the Confederacy.
Inauguration of Jefferson Davis
Urgent!
• Message from Commander Anderson
Supplies at the Fort
are almost gone.
If new supplies are
not sent soon, we
will be forced to
surrender the fort to
the Confederacy.
What to Do???
• If I send supplies…Southerners might
attack.
• If I send troops….Southerners WILL
attack.
• If I do nothing…the commander will have
to surrender.
Decision
34.Southerners
shelled
the
fort
and
• Lincoln decided to send supply ships
forced the Union to surrender to Confederate
forces.
Though there were no casualties, it was
the beginning of the Civil War.
• And see what the Southerners would do
Fort Sumter = The Beginning
FORT SUMTER, S.C.
Explanation- South is angry. They want Union
soldiers to leave federal forts in the South. It
marked the start of the Civil War.