The Return of Sectional Conflict
KEY CONCEPTS
•
Various tensions within and between regions came together to cause the Civil
War.
•
A fundamental disagreement between Northerners and Southerners about the
Constitution contributed to the Civil War.
•
Slavery became a crisis in the context of western expansion.
•
Compromise on slavery, dating from the writing of the Constitution, became
harder and eventually impossible by 1860.
Ch. 18-19
Strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
• Northerners
– Slave Catchers
– All must aid
• Effects
– Northerners attitude
– Southerners belief
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
(1854)
• Stephen A. Douglas (Dem)
– Southern support
– Compromise:
a) Nebraska Territory
b) Popular Sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Northerners protest act
– repeals Missouri
Compromise line
– Republican Party is born
• Dem, Whigs, KnowNothings
• “slavocracy”
• Unifying principle
Election of 1856
Election of 1856:
1. Democrat – James
Buchanan (Penn)
2. Know-Nothings –
Millard Fillmore
3. Republican – John C.
Fremont (CA)
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Outcome
“Bleeding Kansas”
“Bleeding Kansas”
• Issue
– Popular sovereignty
• “border ruffians”
• New England Emigrant
Aid Company
• Result
“Bleeding Kansas”
Guerilla Warfare Ensues
• Sack of Lawrence
• Pottawatomie Massacre
• “Bleeding Kansas”
Hippo campus: Kansas-Nebraska Act
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(Ch. 18)
Left-Side
“Sectional Struggles”
1. Attach: on handout there are pairs of
historical events, designated (A) and (B).
2. Arrange - arrange historical events in correct
Cause and Effect order.
3. Support – indicate in a brief statement how
the cause led to the effect.
1.
2.
(A) The acquisition of California (B) The Mexican War
(A) The entry of California into the Union (B) The California gold
rush
3. (A) The death of President Zachary Taylor (B) The passage of the
Compromise of 1850
4. (A) Northern aid to fugitive slaves (B) The passage of the Fugitive
Slave Law
5. (A) The disappearance of the Whig party (B) The election of 1852
6. (A) The Compromise of 1850 (B) Southern “filibuster ventures
7. (A) The Gadsden Purchase (B) The southern plan for a
transcontinental railroad
8. (A) Douglas’s plan for a transcontinental railroad (B) The KansasNebraska Act
9. (A) The Ostend Manifesto (B) The end of Pierce administration
schemes to acquire Cuba
10. (A) The rise of the Republican party (B) The Kansas –Nebraska Act