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The Antebellum South
Slavery and the “Cotton
Kingdom”
Compromise of 1820
The Abolitionist movement
Slavery and the Mexican
Cession
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
“Bleeding Kansas”
The Republican Party
Election of 1856
Dred Scott Case (1857)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
John Brown’s Raid (1859)
Election of 1860
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Large Slaveholders
Small Slaveholders
Yeomen Farmers
Poor Whites
Slaves
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The Stono Rebellion (1739, South Carolina)
Gabriel’s Rebellion(1800, Virginia)
Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion, led by
Denmark Vessey Plot (1822, South Carolina)
Nat Turner’s (1831, Virginia)
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Henry Clay fashions an agreement
Maine enters union as free state
Missouri enters union as slave state
All territory north of 36 30 closed to slavery
in Louisiana Purchase region
Thomas Jefferson: “Fire Bell in the Night”
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Abolitionist - a vocal
minority
Demand end to the
institution
Violation of the Bible
Emphasis on cruel and
inhuman treatment
Degraded both slave
and master
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – best
seller
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Wendell Phillips: orator
Frederick Douglass:
former slave and journalist
William Lloyd Garrison:
journalist (The Liberator)
Harriet Tubman: former
slave, underground
railroad
Sara and Angelina
Grimké: educators
Owen Lovejoy: journalist
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Territorial division formula: Missouri
Compromise (1820);Compromise of 1850;
Crittenden Compromise (proposed 1860)
Free-Soil formula: Wilmot Proviso
(proposed 1846) – no expansion of slavery
Pro-Slavery formula: John C. Calhoun’s
position in 1847; Dred Scott decision (1857)
– Federal government cannot restrict
expansion
Popular Sovereignty formula: Lewis Cass /
Stephen Douglas – let voters decide in
territories – Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
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The Wilmot Proviso (1848)
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
“Bleeding Kansas”
Brooks-Sumner Incident
(1856)
Dred Scott Case (1857)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
(1858) / Freeport Doctrine /
Popular Sovergniity
John Brown’s Raid (1859)
Election of 1860
Secession of Southern
states, Dec 1860 – May 1861
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Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution:
Slavery in the ante-bellum South
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery: 1691-1877