What was the Compromise of

1850? What did it do?

Word of the Day-Fugitive Slave
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A Nation Headed for War

Birth of the Republican Party

Democrats, Whigs
and Free Soilers form
Republican Party
Republican did not
want the immediate
abolition of slavery
Adopted Free Soilers
stance on ending
slavery in new
territories

Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Senators were
elected by legislature,
not by the people
Both Abraham Lincoln
and Stephen Douglas
ran for US Senate in
Illinois
Held public debates
that caught the
nations attention

Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln was against
expanding slavery into
new territories
Douglas argued for
popular sovereignty
Douglas wanted to be
president in 1860
Tried to please southern
Democrats and Northern
Republicans

Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Douglas issued
Freeport Doctrine
Said there must be
laws to regulate
slavery
Douglas won the
Senatorial election
Was hurt nationally by
refusing to support
the Dred Scott ruling

Underground Rail Road

Slave codes made
people realize
government was not
ready to abolish slavery
The Underground
Railroad was
established
Not an actual railroad
Series of safe houses
used by runaway slaves
to escape to the North
or even Canada

Harriet Tubman
Most famous
conductors
Tubman was a small
lady that escaped
slavery
She made 19 trips
back into the south
and helped free many
slaves

John Browns Raid

Radical white
abolitionist, led many
violent attacks in
Kansas
Felt that slavery was
a sin against God
He and a group of
about 20 men raided
the garrison at
Harpers Ferry,
Virginia

John Browns Raid

The goal was to take
weapons and give them
to slaves so that slaves
could rise up
The plan failed when US
troops, led by Robert E
Lee, surrounded the
garrison
Brown and his men
arrested in the garrison

John Browns Raid

Brown and 19 men
hanged at the
governments
approval
Southern hatred of
abolitionist grew

 I, John Brown, am quite certain that the crimes

of this guilty land will never be purged away but
with blood

Election of 1860
Slavery was the
biggest issue
Republicans chose
Abraham Lincoln
Democrats were
divided along sectional
lines
Stephen Douglas and
John Breckenridge ran
as Democrat
candidates

Election of 1860
South felt threatened
by Lincoln, they felt
that he would outlaw
slavery, not only in
the new territories,
but also in the South
Abe Lincoln was
completely left off the
ballots in the south

Election of 1860
The South supported
Stephen Douglas
because he was for
popular sovereignty
Abe Lincoln won
every North state
Named 16th
President of the
United States

Southern Secession
When it was
announced that Abe
Lincoln won the
election, South
Carolina seceded
from the Union on
December 20, 1860
By February, six other
states had also left
the Union (Ms, Al, Ga,
Dl, La, Tx)

Southern Secession
States met in
Montgomery,
Alabama to draft
constitution
Jefferson Davis
elected the first
president of the
Confederate States of
America

Preserving the Union

Many thought Lincoln
could sway the
remaining southern
states to remain in the
Union
Lincoln had no
purpose, directly or
indirectly, to interfere
with the institution of
slavery in the States
where it exists

Preserving the Nation

He also argued that
the Union could only
be dissolved by a
unanimous
agreement of all
states
Not an unhappy
minority