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Good Morning. What you will need today: Unit 2 Major Themes Any notes from homework Essay Prep Sheet from last class “Building a House” Film Quiz Sheet from last class. Quiz. Use your notes and/or your brain. Unit Question: Why do we fight?. Guiding Questions for Today:

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  1. Good Morning • What you will need today: • Unit 2 Major Themes • Any notes from homework • Essay Prep Sheet from last class • “Building a House” • Film Quiz Sheet from last class

  2. Quiz Use your notes and/or your brain.

  3. Unit Question:Why do we fight? • Guiding Questions for Today: • How & why did the results of the Mexican-American War contribute to sectional difficulties in the US? • Why did the Compromise of 1850 break down so quickly?

  4. The 1850s: Road to Secession

  5. Texas & Mexican Cession

  6. Slavery Throughout US History • 1787 - Northwest Ordinance • 1789 - U. S. Constitution • 1793 - Fugitive Slave Act • 1820 – Missouri Compromise • 1831-1844 – “Gag Rule” • 1832 – Nullification Crisis • 1836-1845 – Texas • 1846-1848 - Mexican War • 1850

  7. Texas & Mexican Cession

  8. Compromiseof 1850

  9. Compromise of 1850 • CA a Free State • UT & NM Popular Sovereignty • TX Border Settlement • Slave Trade Banned in DC • Strict Fugitive Slave Law

  10. Compromiseof 1850

  11. Compromise of 1850 • Who wins? • Is this helping or hurting sectional difficulties? • What problems will this lead to?

  12. Fugitive Slave Law & Political Impacts • Read articles. • How & why did the results of the Mexican-American War contribute to sectional difficulties in the US? • Why did the Compromise of 1850 break down so quickly?

  13. HarrietBeecherStowe 1811 - 1896 So this is the lady who started the Civil War.-- Abraham Lincoln

  14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 • Sold 300,000 copies in the first year. • 2 million in a decade!

  15. Other Effects • Impending Crisis of the South • Personal Liberty Laws • Riots & Fights • Slavery as a “positive good”

  16. How can we use any of this in our essay?Essay Prep Sheet

  17. 1852 Presidential Election Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott John Parker Hale Democrat Whig Free Soil “Doughface”

  18. 1852Election Result

  19. Expansionists in America - the 1850s Filibustering Expeditions – “All Mexico” Movement

  20. Franklin Pierce • Expansion? • Filibustering Expeditions • Ostend Manifesto – Plans for Cuba • William Walker – “Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny”

  21. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 Stephen Douglas Popular Sovereignty

  22. “Bleeding Kansas” Border “Ruffians”(pro-slavery Missourians)

  23. John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?

  24. “The Crime Against Kansas” Congr. Preston Brooks(D-SC) Sen. Charles Sumner(R-MA)

  25. Rise of the 3rd Party System • Whigs falling apart… • Why?

  26. The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party] • 1849  Secret Order of the Star-Spangled Banner created in NYC. • Nativists. • Anti-Catholics. • Anti-immigrants. • Why didn’t they last?

  27. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854 • Northern Whigs. • Northern Democrats. • Free-Soilers. • Know-Nothings. • Opponents of the Kansas- Nebraska Act.

  28. 1856 Presidential Election James Buchanan John C. Frémont Millard Fillmore Democrat Republican Know Nothing

  29. Signs of Sectionalism

  30. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

  31. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857 • Roger Taney • Decision • Effects • Reaction? • North? South? Others? • Douglas? Lincoln?

  32. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

  33. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.

  34. Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine How to balance Dred Scott with PopularSovereignty?

  35. John Brown’s Raidon Harper’s Ferry, 1859

  36. Abraham LincolnRepublican 1860PresidentialElection John BellConstitutional Union John C. BreckinridgeSouthern Democrat Stephen A. DouglasNorthern Democrat

  37. Republican Platform 1860 • No extension of slavery • Protective tariff. • Internal improvements at federal expense – Pacific RR central route. • Free homesteads

  38. 1860 Election Results

  39. Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address • To whom is Lincoln speaking? • What arguments is he making? • What does he say about slavery? • What does he say about secession? • How could we use this to say something about causes of the US Civil War?

  40. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

  41. Crittenden Compromise:A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity Senator John J. Crittenden(Know-Nothing-KY)

  42. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

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