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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896). So this is the lady who started the Civil War. -- Abraham Lincoln. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852. Sold 300,000 copies in the first year. 2 million in a decade!. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852. “Bleeding Kansas”. Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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HarrietBeecherStowe(1811 – 1896)

HarrietBeecherStowe(1811 – 1896)

So this is the lady who started the Civil War.

-- Abraham Lincoln

So this is the lady who started the Civil War.

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852 Sold 300,000

copies inthe first year.

2 million in a decade!

Sold 300,000 copies inthe first year.

2 million in a decade!

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852

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“Bleeding Kansas”“Bleeding Kansas”

Border “Ruffians”

(pro-slavery

Missourians)

Border “Ruffians”

(pro-slavery

Missourians)

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Map Bleeding Kan

Attacks by free-states

Attacks by pro-slavery states

(Led by John Brown)

•Kansas/Nebraska Act Kansas/Nebraska Act led to several acts of led to several acts of

violence between pro-violence between pro-slavery settlers and slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers.anti-slavery settlers.

•First violent outbreaks First violent outbreaks between north/south.between north/south.

•First battles of the Civil First battles of the Civil War begin in Kansas in War begin in Kansas in

1856.1856.

•Over 200 killedOver 200 killed

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After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, the Kansas territory became a battleground. Pro-slavery and antislavery supporters rushed to settle

in Kansas. The territory was torn by battles and massacres. The issue also bitterly divided the nation and led to the formation of the Republican Party. The

first shots of the Civil War were in Bleeding Kansas.

After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, the Kansas territory became a battleground. Pro-slavery and antislavery supporters rushed to settle

in Kansas. The territory was torn by battles and massacres. The issue also bitterly divided the nation and led to the formation of the Republican Party. The

first shots of the Civil War were in Bleeding Kansas.

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“The Crime Against Kansas”

“The Crime Against Kansas”

Sen. Charles Sumner(R-MA)

Sen. Charles Sumner(R-MA)

Congr. Preston Brooks(D-SC)

Congr. Preston Brooks(D-SC)

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1852 Presidential Election

1852 Presidential Election

√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil

√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil

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1852 Election Results

1852 Election Results

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REPUBLICAN PARTYREPUBLICAN PARTY

Formed to stop Formed to stop the expansion of the expansion of slaveryslavery

National Republican National Republican which become the Whigs.which become the Whigs.

Free Soil Party Free Soil Party against the against the expansion of expansion of slaveryslavery

Democrats Democrats opposed the opposed the expansion of expansion of slaveryslavery

AbolitionistsAbolitionists

Know Nothing PartyKnow Nothing Party

against immigrationagainst immigration

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Causes

Growing Tensions

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott decision

Lecompton constitution

John Brown’s raid

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•Slave from Missouri traveled with his owner to Illinois & Minnesota both free states.•His master died and Scott wanted to move back to Missouri---Missouri still recognized him as a slave.•He sued his master’s widow for his freedom since he had lived in a free state for a period of time.•Court case went to the Supreme Court for a decision-----National issue•Can a slave sue for his freedom?•Is a slave property?•Is slavery legal?

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Chart/Effect of Scott

•Supreme Court hands down the Dred Scott

decision

•North refused to enforce Fugitive Slave Law

•Free states pass personal liberty laws.

•Republicans claim the decision is not binding

•Southerners call on the North to accept the decision if the South is to remain in

the Union.

•Slaves cannot sue the U.S. for their freedom because they are property.

•They are not citizens and have no legal right under the

Constitution.•Supreme Court

legalized slavery by saying that

•Congress could not stop a slave owner

from moving his slaves to a new

territory•Missouri

Compromise and all other compromises

were unconstitutional

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Reading/Scott decision

““They had (slaves) for more than a century before They had (slaves) for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order; and been regarded as beings of an inferior order; and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. This opinion was at man was bound to respect. This opinion was at

that time fixed and universal in the civilized that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race.”portion of the white race.”

Chief Justice Roger B.Taney (1777 to 1864) in the case of Dred Scott

referred to the status of slaves when the Constitution was adopted.

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•Violent abolitionist

•Involved in the Bleeding Kansas

•Murdered 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas

•Wanted to lead a slave revolt throughout the South by raising an army of freed slaves and destroying the South.

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•Attacked a U.S. Ammunition

depot in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in Oct.

of 1859 to capture

weapons and begin his slave

revolt.

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•Unsuccessful and captured by USMC under the leadership of Robert E. Lee•Put on trial for treason.

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•He was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.

•His last words were to this effect: “I “I believe that the issue of slavery will believe that the issue of slavery will never be solved unless through the never be solved unless through the

shedding of blood.”shedding of blood.”

•Northerners thought of John Brown as a martyr to the abolitionist cause.

•Southerners were terrified that if John Brown almost got away with

this, there must be others like him in the North who are willing to die to

end slavery.

•South’s outcome: To leave the U.S. and start their own country.

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•Lincoln and Douglas both running for the U.S. Senate in Illinois.

•The debates were followed by the country because both candidates were interested in running for the

Presidency in 1860.•Slavery was the issue

•Lincoln stated:Lincoln stated: A House Divided against itself cannot stand. Either we become one or the other.

•was against the expansion of slavery•Douglas believed that slavery should be decided by

the people.

•Popular sovereignty

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Lincoln got Douglas to admit that Lincoln got Douglas to admit that Popular SovereigntyPopular Sovereignty could work against the expansion of slavery….. could work against the expansion of slavery…..

SouthernersSoutherners would not support Douglas for the presidency would not support Douglas for the presidency in 1860in 1860

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Reading/Lincoln on slavery

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Election of 1860

Country is Country is polarized polarized

(divided) over (divided) over the issue of the issue of

slavery.slavery.

Once Lincoln is elected as president,

South Carolina will secede from

the U.S. along with several

other Southern States.

They will They will form the form the

Confederate Confederate States of States of

America---CSAAmerica---CSA

•303 total electoral votes and

152 to win.

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Secession