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Movement toward war
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Influences
Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Written as a response to the Fugitive Slave Law.
• Energized Northern sympathies for the plight of the slaves.
• Huge influence on the outcome of the war.
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Hinton R. Helper
• The Impending Crisis of the South
• Viewed slavery as hurting nonslaveholding whites.
• Added fuel to the fire.
John Brown
• Fanatical abolitionist
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Sumner-Brooks Fight
• Senator/Representative.
Sumner-Mass. Brooks-SC.
• Sumner was an abolitionist who made disparaging remarks about Senator Butler of South Carolina.
• Brooks responds by beating him with a cane in the middle of the Senate.
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Bleeding Kansas
• Failure of popular sovereignty.
• Groups vied for control of the state.
• New England Emigrant Aid Company. Sent abolitionists to Kansas to thwart the Southerners.
• First territorial legislature. “border ruffians” from Missouri. Bloodshed, separate gov’ts, etc.
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Lecompton Constitution
• Attempt by Southern sympathizers to permanently establish slavery in Kansas.
• Supported by President Buchanan.
• Opposed by Stephen Douglas. Fought for true popular sovereignty.
• This episode resulting into the split of the democratic party.
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Dred Scott
• Supreme Court decision.
March 1857.
• Did residency in a free state give Scott the right to his freedom?
• Slaves had no rights under the Constitution.
• Slaves were property and could be taken into any territory.
• Congress had no power to ban slavery in the territories.
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Things add up
• Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
• Territorial legislatures were themselves powerless to ban slavery. Rights of personal property guaranteed by the 5th Amendment take precedence.
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Election of 1856