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A Divided Nation
Nation's Goin' Cray Cray!!
The Heart of Dixie
1855 - Kansas Legislative Elections
Election of 1852
Man on Fire!!
Almost 5,000 pro-slavery voters crossed border from MO, voted in Kansas and left-> New Legislature Pro-slavery!
John Brown wanted
to start the 2nd slave uprising
(remember the 1st)
Lincoln insisted he would not change slavery but it would not expand and eventually die out completely.
Wanted to attack the federal
arsenal in VA and
seize weapons there
(100,000.muskets & rifles)
Planned to arm local slaves
and kill or take hostage
southerners who stood
in his way. Once news got out,
believed local slaves
would join the fight.
Strict laws passed-> Crime to question slaveholders rights
Put to death those who helped runaway slaves
Main issue-> Debate over
expansion of slavery!!
#14 Franklin Pierce elected!
Supported :
Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Act helping him to win election.
Harper's Ferry
Is He Psychic or just
Psychotic?
Secession!!
The Country of SC
October 16, 1859 begins raid
Harper's Ferry, VA.
Lincoln's Words
"I John Brown am now quite certain that
the crimes of this guilty land will
never be purged away but with blood."
December 20, 1860 SC leaves the Union
Southerners felt their way of life was threatened
Kansas has 2 opposing govts.
Brown, John Brown
Brown was convicted of treason, murder, & conspiracy
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
and Texas followed S.C. & seceded to form the Confederate States of America aka the Confederacy.
Kansas collapsed into civil war.
Pro-slavery jury charged leaders of anti-slavery government with treason in Lawrence, Ks.
South Carolina's legislature called for convention
a week after Lincoln was elected
200 people were killed.
John Brown was an abolitionist from
New England.
" I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Abraham Lincoln
Elected Jefferson Davis as
President of the CSA.
Discussed secession from the union
Moved with some of his sons to Kansas.
Had about 21 men, 16 white and
5 ex-slaves . In the evening, Overpowered
armory guards & took 60 hostages.
8 of Brown's men killed,
his 2 sons wounded
Brown fled to a firehouse.
Oct 18th, Colonel
Robert E. Lee stormed
the firehouse and
captured Brown.
Events in "Bleeding Kansas"
became national
front-page stories.
States had voluntarily joined the
Union so they should be
free to leave. -> States Rights!!
May 24, 1856,
Brown and his
men killed
5 pro-slavery men.
800 pro-slavery men rode out to Lawrence to arrest the anti-slavery leaders but they fled!!
Sack of Lawrence
made him
determined
to fight back
Ordered to be hung December , 1859
"Doughface"
Northerner (NH) with
Southerner Sympathies
John Crittenden(KY) proposed
constitutional amendments that
he believed would keep the South
happy by protecting slavery.
Lincoln swore to preserve
the union at whatever
the cost.
Buchanan & Lincoln agreed
states could not leave the union
unless by revolution.
South feel need threatened and
fearful of others will incite
attacks ->want to leave Union
Lincoln disagreed with
Crittenden and had every
Republican reject it.
Congress reacted!
Senator Charles Sumner(MA)
was beaten unconscious
by Preston Brooks (SC) for insulting
his relative Andrew Pickens Butler (SC)
a pro-slavery senator.
Took their anger out on
Lawrence by setting fires,
looting buildings and
destroying businesses.
Known as the
Pottawatomie Massacre
1856
1858
1850
1860
1820
Welcome Mr. President
Donkeys, Elephants, & Slaves Oh MY
Quick, We Gotta Go to...Kansas
Election of 1860
Breckinridge(D) vs Douglas (D) vs Bell (CU) vs Lincoln (R)
Enter the Little Giant
See a problem?
Stephen Douglas senator from Illinois.
Proposed a railroad from Chicago
to the Pacific Ocean.
Democrats were divided.
Lincoln had a unified
Republican Party.
Republican Party is formed in 1854:Made up of Whigs, Northern Democrats, Free-Soilers and Abolitionists.
Lose election to Democratic James Buchanan who neither supported nor opposed Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Southerners did not support
Douglas' plan.
Douglas asked a few
southern senators to support plan.
Agreed only if the new territory west
of Missouri was opened to slavery.
Wanted to build the railroad
through what was left of the
Louisiana Territory.
Eliminated Missouri Compromise
restriction on slavery.
Outraged Northerners-> Protest meetings held,
Petitions to Congress sent!
1854- Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Divided the remainder of the LA Purchase into Kansas and Nebraska.
Allowed the people in each territory to decide slave or free.
Southerners supported!
Promised not to abolish slavery
where it already existed.
Court Case that
Started a War
Splits the Country!
"A House Divided against
itself cannot stand"-
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott Decision
Enter the Rail Splitter
The Decision -> 7-2 ruling against Scott!
They wanted a railroad from
New Orleans to Southern California.
Happened 2 days after Buchanan
became president.
The Missouri Compromise
required this land to be free
territory=free states.
1858 Lincoln(R) nominated for U.S. Senate
Went against Stephen Douglas(D)
Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney ruling=
- black people, whether enslaved or free are not
citizens of U.S.
-living in free territory did not make slaves free
-Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
-under 5th amendment slaves were property
Lincoln challenged Douglas 7 times in
what became the historic Lincoln Douglas debates!
Central issue was the Spread of Slavery !
We were taken from a
slave state to free territories
so we should be free!!
Lincoln lost but gained
national recognition!
Increased tensions & spread of slavery!!