The Road to the Civil War

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The Road to the Civil War
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The Deepening Crisis over Slavery

• 1846 Wilmot Proviso
• 1850 Compromise of 1850
• 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
• 1857 Dred Scott Decision
• 1859 John Browns Raid
• 1860 Election of Lincoln

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The Compromise of 1850

• At issue admission of California as a free state
• Previouslythe issue of admitting Texas

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Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

• Why have a new law in 1850?
• Provisions of the 1850 law?
• Reactions to the 1850 law?
• A few fugitives stories
• William Ellen CraftGA to Boston
• Thomas SimsGA to Boston
• Anthony BurnsVA to Boston
• Margaret GarnerKY to Cincinnati

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Uncle Toms Cabin, 1852

• What the novel says
• How northerners read it
• How southerners responded to it

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Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854

• Sponsor Sen. Stephen Douglas
• Main provision
• organization of Kansas and Nebraska into
  territories
• Results
• Nebraska was free
• Kansas was north of the Missouri Compromise line,
  which means it also should be free
• Kansas became the focus of anti-slavery and
  pro-slavery activists
• Emergence of the Republican Party

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The Dred Scott Decision, 1857

• Who was Dred Scott
• What was the suitDred Scott v. Sanfordabout?
• What was the decision of the court (majority
  decision written by Justice Roger Taney)?
• Reactions to the decision

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Other Uncivil Acts

• Bleeding Kansas, 1855-56
• Preston Brooks attack on Charles Sumner, 1856
• John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859

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Election of Abraham Lincoln