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Why the Civil War Happened And What We Can Learn From It Day 2

WHAT WE’LL COVER IN THIS COURSE

▪Day One: Setting the stage: - the late 1790s through the 1830s or so ▪Day Two: 1840 through mid-1850s ▪Day Three: Late 1850s-spring of 1861

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WESTWARD EXPANSION

1790 1830

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WESTWARD EXPANSION

1840 1860

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KEY EVENTS IN WESTWARD EXPANSION 1800-1850 ▪1803 – Louisiana Purchase ▪1820 – ▪1836 – Texas Revolution & Independence ▪1845-1848 – Mexican War ▪1850 – Compromise of 1850 Karen McPherson Fall 2018 51

AMERICAN PROGRESS

John Gast 1872

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POLITICAL CHALLENGES

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1854-present Democrats vs. Republicans

1824-1852 Democrats vs. Whigs

1796-1824 Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans

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THE Daniel Webster “GREAT (Maine/) TRIUMVIRATE” (Industrialization)

John C. Calhoun Henry Clay (S. Carolina) (Virginia/Kentucky) (Slavery) (Expansion)

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FROM 1850—1861 1.Compromise of 1850 5. 1857 – Dred Scott 2. 1852 – “Uncle Tom’s 6. 1858 – Lincoln-Douglas Cabin” Debates 3. 1854 – Kansas-Nebraska 7. 1859 – Raid on Act and “” Harper’s Ferry 4. 1856 – Caning of Charles 8. 1861 – Ft. Sumter Sumner Karen McPherson Fall 2018 63

COMPROMISE OF 1850

1. California admitted as a free state. 2. Utah and New Mexico organized under popular sovereignty 3. Texas ceded its claim to parts of the New Mexico territory; the US government would cover Texas’s $10 million war debt.

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COMPROMISE OF 1850

4. The slave trade is abolished in the District of Columbia, but slavery itself would continue. 5. Congress strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act by requiring citizens of any state, slave or free, to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves.

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Impact of Fugitive Slave Act

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin -- 1853

▪ Author – Harriet Beecher Stowe ▪ 1811 – 1896 ▪ Religious family, Cincinnati ▪ Married Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836 ▪ Supported ▪ Inspired to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the grief she felt at the loss of her son, Samuel Charles Stowe, in 1849 at the age of 18

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Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Brought home the horrors of slavery to people who lived in the North

• Coupled with Fugitive Slave Act, made slavery a moral problem for everyone

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ELECTION OF 1852

Party Democratic Whig Free Soil Nominee John P. Hale Home State New Hampshire Virginia (W&M) New Jersey Running Mate William R. King William R. Graham George W. Julian Electoral Vote 254 42 0 States Carried 27 4 0 Popular Vote 1,607,510 1,386,942 155,210

Percentage 50.8% 43.9% 4.9%

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1852 Election Map

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1854 KANSAS-NEBRASKA Act • Sponsor – Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas • Wanted to build a railroad west from Chicago • Hard to attract settlers to Kansas and Nebraska • Proposal: Nebraska would be a free state, Kansas a slave state • Final Act in 1854: popular sovereignty would

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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CONSEQUENCE – “BLEEDING KANSAS” • Vote conducted by people living in each territory at the time of the vote • Nebraska – a done deal. • Kansas – problem • Borders Missouri, a slave state • Above 30°36” – Missouri Compromise Line

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CONSEQUENCE – “BLEEDING KANSAS”

• Began pre-Civil War in Kansas • “Border Ruffians”

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“BLEEDING KANSAS” CONTINUED

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IMPACT OF KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT AND “BLEEDING KANSAS” • Split the Whig Party into Northern and Southern factions • Southern Whigs were swept into the Democratic Party • Northern Whigs joined with other anti-slavery groups to form Republican Party • Administration of President Franklin Pierce did not

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IMPACTS OF “BLEEDING KANSAS”

• Brutal guerrilla war in Kansas. • By the end of 1856, over 200 people would be gunned down in cold blood. • Property damage reached millions of dollars.

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IMPACTS OF “BLEEDING KANSAS”

• Federal troops were sent in to put down the fighting, but they were too few to have much effect. • Kansas was a prelude to the bloody catastrophe that engulfed the nation only 5 years later

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CANING OF -- 1856

• Sumner’s Senate speech: “The Crime Against Kansas” • personal attack on SC Sen. • Rep. (Butler’s cousin) beat

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CANING OF CHARLES SUMNER -- 1856

• Brooks resigned his seat, returned to SC to seek reelection; • He was overwhelmingly re- elected • people throughout the south sent him gold-headed canes • Sumner did not return to the Senate for several years

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ELECTION OF 1856

▪ State of Play in 1856 ▪ Whig Party -- GONE ▪ Democratic Party: the South plus pro-slavery elements in the North ▪ New Republican Party: various factions against the expansion of slavery ▪ No one was really against slavery itself ▪ “Know-Nothings”: anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic,

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ELECTION OF 1856

Party Democratic Republican Know-Nothing Nominee James Buchanan John C. Fremont Home State Pennsylvania California New York Running Mate John C. William L. Dayton Andrew J. Breckenridge Donelson Electoral Vote 174 114 8 States Carried 19 11 1 Popular Vote 1,836,072 1,342,345 873,053

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