Compromise Comes to an End

Pre-Civil War (1820-1860)

9th Grade U.S. History

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Compromise of 1850

● Only Brief Happiness

● Many Still Not Happy

● Hope that Controversy was Over - It Wasn’t

Fugitive Slave Act

Controversy:

North - Hated the Act

South - Upset with the North for Hating it

1852 Election

Democrat:

- Franklin Pierce

Whig:

- Winfield Scott

Both Were War Heroes

1852 Election

Free Soilers Supported the Democratic Party Southerners

Whig Party Was Almost Dead
Pierce Wins But Can’t Control His Party
- Sectionalism
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - 1852
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Plight of Runaways
- Evils of Slavery
- Degraded Masters
- Against Christian Morality

Sold Millions of Copies

- Eyeopener in the North

- South Hated It
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Pre-Civil War (1820-1860)

9th Grade U.S. History

Mr. Todd
Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854

Stephen Douglas:

- Expansionist Congressman from Illinois

- Needed to Settle the Western Prairies for Railroads, Would Help Illinois

Kansas-Nebraska Act

- Passed to Organize Territories; Repealed Missouri Compromise

- Replaced It with Popular Sovereignty
- North Really Angry, South Loved It
Republican Party (1854 - Present)

Anti-Slavery Whigs and Democrats

Free Soilers

Know Nothings

- Joined Forces to Prevent/End the Institution of Slavery

“Bleeding Kansas”

Kansas Has a lot of Violence Over the Slavery Issue

- Two Rival Governments

- Mini Civil War Before Our Actual One
- Pro-Slavery Forces Bured Down Lawrence, KS

John Brown

- Gets Revenge with the Pottawatomie Massacre; May 1856

Brooks-Sumner Affair

Charles Sumner Gets Beat Nearly to Death Outside of Congress Because of an

Anti-Slavery Speech He Made Concerning Kansas

Beat by Congressman Preston Brooks in Defence of HIs Cousin Senator

Andrew Butler; Both were from South Carolina

Brooks was Applauded by Residents of S.C. and Given New Canes to Replace
the One He Broke Over Sumner
1856 Election

Republicans:

- Run John C. Fremont For President Against Democrat James Buchanan

Whigs/Know-Nothings:

- Run Ex-President Millard Fillmore

- Buchanan Wins
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