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Thirty Years PassTension mounts
Southerners fear anti-slavery forces are winning
Now California wants to join as a Free State (da da da DUM!)
More Compromise: The Compromise of 1850
For Abolitionists For Supporters
California enters as a Free State
Outlaws (abolishes) slavery in DC
Stronger fugitive slave law
New Mexico and Utah make their own decisions about slavery
The Georgia Platform
Georgia decides to stand with the Union (for now)
BUT – secession does stay in the back of their minds
Georgia delegates wanted to “preserve that Union which has extended … over a vast wilderness to another ocean…”
Fugitive Slave ActEscaped “fugitives”
must be returned
Anyone who helped, hid, or harbored them could face:$1000 fine OR6 months in prison
Excerpt from Fugitive Slave ActSection 7
“And be it further enacted, That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct, hinder, or prevent such claimant, his agent or attorney, or any person or persons lawfully assisting him, her, or them, from arresting such a fugitive from service or labor,…or shall harbor or conceal such fugitive, so as to prevent the discovery and arrest of such person, after notice or knowledge of the fact that such person was a fugitive from service or labor as aforesaid, shall, for either of said offences, be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding six months…”
A Plea for Change: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe of Connecticut
"...the enslaving of the African race is a clear violation of the great law which commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves"
Your Turn
Your are a middle class Northerner in the free state of Ohio.
It’s broad-open daylight There is a knock at your back doorThere stands a desperate family of three
(Mom, Dad, daughter) who has escaped a plantation in neighboring Virginia.
It’s January.What would you do?
Kansas-Nebraska ActKansas and
Nebraska territories could decide whether to be Free States or Slave States
Included: Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, SD and ND
This is called popular sovereignty
“Bleeding Kansas”
The Dred Scott CaseDred Scott v. SandfordSlave who lived for a
short time in free Minnesota
Thought he should be free
Supreme Court ruled against him
Said slaves were NOT citizens and couldn’t sue
Cause # 3: A Presidential Election1860 Election
Lincoln represented Northern Republicans
John Breckinridge was Southern Democrats *
Lincoln won with 59% of votes
Days LaterSouth Carolina voted 169 – 0 to Secede from
the Union
Georgia voted 208 – 89 to Secede
Even those who didn’t vote pledge their “lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to the defense of Georgia.”
Free and independent “Republic of Georgia”
Total States to SecedeSouth CarolinaGeorgiaMississippi AlabamaFlorida
LouisianaTexas, Virginia Arkansas, North Carolina Tennessee
Birth of a New NationConfederate States of America
Created in 1861
President – Jefferson Davis (MS)
Vice President – Robert Toombs (GA)
Capitol – Richmond, VA
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