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Conflict Leading to the Civil War

Conflict Leading to the Civil War. f oldable answers. Instructions for Foldable: Fold in half hotdog style. Make 6 cuts , this gives you 7 tabs . Labeling: 1 st tab- Conflict leading to the Civil War Remaining tabs: Fugitive Slave Act Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Conflict Leading to the Civil War

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  1. Conflict Leading to the Civil War foldable answers

  2. Instructions for Foldable: • Fold in half hotdog style. • Make 6 cuts, this gives you 7 tabs. • Labeling: • 1st tab- Conflict leading to the Civil War • Remaining tabs: • Fugitive Slave Act • Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Kansas- Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas • Dred Scott Decision • John Brown’s Raid • Fort Sumter

  3. Required all citizens to capture runaway slaves. • People who let fugitives escape could be fined $1000 and jailed. • Special courts were set up to handle runaway cases. • Judges became corrupt. They made money off of sending people back to the south. Fugitive Slave Act

  4. A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. • Purpose: To inform people about the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act. • Characters- • Uncle Tom: Enslaved African American • Simon Legree: Slave owner Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  5. Proposed by Senator Stephen Douglas • Purpose-Southerners did want another free state entering the Union. • Plan-The Nebraska Territory would be divided into 2 territories; Kansas and Nebraska. • Settlers world decide the issue of slavery based on popular sovereignty. Kansas- Nebraska Act

  6. Pro-Slavery supporters raided an antislavery town called Lawrence, KS. • John Brown, an abolitionist rode with 6 others to find the proslavery settlers. They murdered them. • Started a violence spree throughout the region over 200 people were killed. Bleeding Kansas

  7. Dred Scott had been enslaved for many years in Missouri. • He moved to Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory with his owner. These places banned slavery. After returning to Missouri his owner died. • Antislavery lawyers helped Scott file a lawsuit. • The lawsuit argued that since Scott had lived in a free territory, he was a free man. Dred Scott Decision

  8. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled: • Scott could not file a lawsuit because he was enslaved. • Slaves were considered property and had no rights. • Congress did not have the right to outlaw slavery in the territories… Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Dred Scott Decision

  9. 1859, John Brown leads a raid at Harper’s Ferry, VA. • Raided a federal arsenal so that he could give weapons to slaves for a revolt. • No slaves arrived at the arsenal. • John Brown was captured by Robert E. Lee and 10 others were killed. • He was sentenced to death by hanging. John Brown’s Raid

  10. Held by the Union, located near Charleston, South Carolina. • April 11, 1861: Confederates demand the Union to give up the fort. • Union Major Robert Anderson refuses and will not give up the fort until he commanded by the US government. • Confederates open fire, Union supplies run low, and on April 13, 1861 Anderson surrenders the fort. Fort Sumter

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