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Chapter 11The Coming of the Civil War
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s
Cabin.
Southerners view of slavery was the plantation was like a large and
happy family.
Population
North South
21.5 million 9 million
Railroad miles Factories North--21,700 110,100South--9,000 20,600
Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph in 1844. Telegraph wire
was stung along railroad tracks.
Compromise of 1850-two laws favored
the North, two the South, and
one law allowed the territories to
decide.
The Coming of War
After the Compromise of 1850, the Whig party will never again win a presidential election. Other political parties are created:
Free Soil Party-abolitionists American Party-anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
The American party was frequently called the “Know-
nothings”.
They did very well in local elections.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In order to split up the disputed territory of Kansas/Nebraska in 1854, Stephen Douglas of Illinois
proposed that they be allowed popular sovereignty. This would force the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise.
After 9 months of debate, it passed, but everyone was angry about it. Because of this, the Republican party was created as an anti-slavery, anti-South, strong central gov’t party in 1854.
The Republicans drew support from Free Soilers, Whigs, anti-slavery
Democrats, and abolitionists.
Senator Stephen
Douglas of Illinois
introduced the Kansas-
Nebraska Act.
The act supported the practice of popular sovereignty--letting the
people in the territory decide whether slavery wold be allowed
there.
The Kansas-Nebraska
Act brought violence between
free soilers and pro-slavery.
Bleeding Kansas
On May 21, 1856, open violence erupted when pro-slavery Southerners looted newspaper offices and homes in Lawrence, KS.
John Brown, an evangelical anti-slavery CT native, believed that
he was God’s chosen instrument and responded by gathering some men
and killing 5 pro-slavery settlers with swords while
their families watched. This would not help
matters.
Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC) beat Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) senseless, becauseof some anti-slavery remarks he had made.
Brooks resigned from the House, but South Carolina immediately re-elected him. He was presented with numerous canes as gifts from well-wishers.
Sumner suffered severe neurological damage and spent years recovering in Europe.
Dred Scott
Scott v. Sanford
The Politics of Slavery
In the election of 1856, the Democrats nominated James
Buchanan, who had been out of the country and was not associated with
an opinion on Kansas, but their party platform favored the
Compromise of 1850.
James
Buchanan
The Republicans ran John C. Frémont, a Mex/Am war hero with
no political experience. They supported a free Kansas. The
American (Know-nothing) party ran Millard Filmore. They didn’t talk much about slavery. The whole
election was about Kansas.
Buchanan won the election and promised to stop the North’s
“agitation of slavery”. He hoped that the Supreme Court would do this, but they only made things
worse. Two days after Buchanan’s inauguration, they handed down the
Dred Scott decision.
Newspaper about the SC decision. Dred Scott and his wife are at the bottom.
In Scott v. Sanford, the slave Dred Scott sued his owner in Missouri, saying that since they had once
lived in free states that they were free. The SC ruled that slaves were property and that people could not be deprived of property without the due process of the 5th Amendment.
Northerners were outraged! This meant that Congress had no power to ban slavery anywhere. So the
MO Compromise was illegal, and the Compromise of 1850 was
illegal. “Slavery follows the flag!” Buchanan thought this would be the
end of the slavery issue.
Kansas was unwilling to accept any SC ruling as law. In 1857, a small
proslavery group elected a Constitutional Congress to apply for
KS statehood. The “LeCompton Constitution” was so offensive that
anti-slave people refused to participate in the vote.
Remember kids,the LeCompton
Constitution is evil! And say no to drugs!
Buchanan, hoping to end the debate on slavery, urged Congress to
approve the LeCompton Constitution. This was too much
even for Northern Democrats. Stephen Douglas (D-IL) spoke out against it. Congress sent it back to
KS for a vote where it was defeated.
Lincoln - Douglas Lincoln - Douglas DebatesDebates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Lincoln - Douglas Lincoln - Douglas Debates (1858)Debates (1858)
• Series of seven debates over slavery in new territories
• Illinois sharply divided on slavery
• Lincoln and Douglas were fighting for seat in Senate
Stephen Douglas
• “Little Giant”
• Thought whites superior to blacks
• Denounced Lecompton Constitution
Abraham Lincoln• Born log cabin in
Kentucky• Taught himself -
studied law• Worked as
postmaster, railsplitter
• Settled in Springfield, Illinois
Debates
•Focused on two principles of government - majority rule and minority rights
Douglas Beliefs
• Majority of people in state or territory can do what want
• Popular sovereignty
• Make own decision on slavery
Lincoln Beliefs
• Common man
• Didn’t believe majority had right to infringe on minority’s right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
Views on Slaves
• Both didn’t think Federal gov. had power to stop slavery
• Lincoln favored containing it to sectional areas until die out
• Lincoln viewed as moral issue
“A house divided
within itself cannot stand”Abraham Lincoln
Election Results for Senate
• Lincoln lost election
• Began to get larger following because of moral values
John Brown’s Raid• October 16, 1859
John Brown (and 22 others) raided a Federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
• Wanted to get weapons to give to enslaved blacks in Virginia.
Response to Raid
• Col. Robert E. Lee sent to subdue raid.
• Killed half of Brown’s men.
• After surrendering, Brown tried found guilty for treason.
Aftermath of Raid
• Many northerners praised him as tool of justice against slavery
• Deepened distrust and anger between North and South
Nov. 6, 1860 Lincoln
elected Pres. Without the support of
the southern states
In the winter of 1860-61 the southern states started to secede and they formed the Confederate States.
In Feb. 9, 1861
Jefferson Davis was
elected pres. of the
Confederacy.
Write an essay identifying the cause(s) of the Civil War
Include the following.
1.Introductory paragraph.
2.Supporting paragraphs.
3.Summary paragraph.
4.Attach the chart where you place events from the timeline into categories.
5.Attach the writing-prompt pages distributed Monday.