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Transcript of Chapter 15: Pp. 448-466. Allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state and Missouri to join as a...
Allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state and Missouri to join as a slave state
Banned slavery north of 36 30’ N latitude
Preserved the balance between the slave and free states in the Senate
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
Proposed by Henry Clay
3 PartsCalifornia becomes a free state, while the
rest of the new territories would have no limits on slavery
Slave trade, but not slavery itself is banned in Washington, D.C.
Stronger fugitive slave law
1. The Missouri Compromise of 1850
1850Proposed by Henry Clay
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slavesAnyone who aided a fugitive slave could be
fined or imprisoned
2. The Fugitive Slave Act
EffectsSlaveholders tried to capture runaways
who had lived in freedom for yearsTried to seize free African Americans and
force them into slaveryThe Fugitive Slave Act convinced the North
of the evils of slavery
The Fugitive Slave Act
Some Northerners refused to cooperateHenry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience”
Antislavery groups tried to rescue African Americans being pursued by slaveholders
Some Northern juries refused to convict those accused of violating the Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854Allow each territory to vote on whether to
allow slaveryPopular sovereignty: Allowing the people
to decide
Pro-slavery and antislavery groups rushed into Kansas to swing the electionPro-slavery legislature was electedAntislavery people refused to accept
proslavery lawsFormed their own state government
3. “Bleeding Kansas”
1856: 800 slavery supporters attacked the town of Lawrence
John BrownAbolitionist who believed God chose him to end
slaveryLed a group and killed 5 slavery supporters
Armed bands roamed the territoryNewspapers called the territory “Bleeding
Kansas”Federal troops were sent in to stop the fighting
“Bleeding Kansas”
1854Antislavery Whigs and Democrats joined
with Free-Soilers to create the Republican Party
Main Message: Government should ban slavery from new territoriesThe Republican Party had strong support
in the North and almost no support in the South
The Republican Party
Dred ScottEnslaved African bought in Missouri by an army
doctorDoctor moved in Illinois (free state) and then to
the Wisconsin Territory (free)Family returned to Missouri
In 1846, Scott sued for his freedomClaimed he should be free because he had once
lived in areas of the North where slavery was prohibited
11 years later, the case reached the Supreme Court
4. The Dred Scott Case
Supreme Court DecisionDred Scott was not a free personCongress had no authority to prohibit slavery in any
territoryBanning slavery was unconstitutional, as was popular
sovereigntyOverall, the Supreme Court decided that the
Constitution protected slavery
The Dred Scott decision divided the nation even moreThe Court had supported the South’s argumentRepublicans and antislavery groups called the decision “a
wicked and false judgment” and “the greatest crime” ever committed in the nation’s courts
The Dred Scott Case
John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
Arsenal: Storage site for weaponsBrown wanted to arm enslaved Africans
and start a revoltAbolitionists paid for the raid
Brown’s raid was defeated and he was hanged
Brown’s abolitionist ties confirmed Southerners’ fears of a great Northern conspiracy against them
The Raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859)
The Election of 1860Lincoln wins clear majorityLincoln’s name did not appear on many
Southern ballotsAbraham Lincoln had promised not to
abolish slavery where it already existed, but it should be excluded from the territories
Many Southerners did not trust the Republican Party (or Lincoln) to protect their rights
5. The Election of Abraham Lincoln
December 20, 1860South Carolina votes to secede from the
UnionThe Confederacy
February, 1861: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia had seceded
Confederate States of AmericaJefferson Davis- President
Secession
U.S. fort in Charleston HarborApril 12, 1861- Confederate forces open
fire and capture the fort
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas join the Confederacy
Fort Sumter
1. Name the 5 causes of the Civil War2. What did the Fugitive Slave Act require? What did it
show Northerners? How did Northerners fight the Fugitive Slave Act?
3. What was the Republican Party’s main message?4. Describe the Dred Scott Case and the decision made
by the Supreme Court.5. Why did Southerners dislike Abraham Lincoln?6. What state was the first to secede from the Union?
When did this state secede?7. Name the states of the Confederacy.8. Who was the President of the Confederate States of
America?
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