AP review notes

1. Lecture #15Lecture #15

2. Problems of Sectional
Balance
in 1850ß California statehood.
ß Southern “fire-eaters”
threatening
secession.
ß Underground RR & fugitive
slave issues:
 Personal liberty laws

3. Compromise of
1850

4. Harriet
Beecher
Stowe
(1811 –
1896)
So this is the
lady who
started the Civil
War.

5. Uncle
Tom’s
Cabin
1852
 Sold 300,000
copies in
the first year.
 2 million in a
decade!

6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852

7. The “Know-Nothings” [The
American Party]
ß Nativists.
ß Anti-
Catholics.
ß Anti-
immigrants.
1849  Secret Order of the Star-
Spangled Banner

8. 1852 Presidential1852 Presidential
ElectionElection
√ Franklin Pierce Gen. Winfield Scott
John Parker Hale
Democrat Whig
Free Soil

9. 1852
Electi
on
Resul
ts

10. Kansas-Nebraska Act,
1854

11. “Bleeding Kansas”
Border
“Ruffians”
(pro-slavery
Missourians

12. “The Crime Against
Kansas”
Sen. Charles
Sumner
(R-MA)
Congr. Preston
Brooks
(D-SC)

13. John Brown: Madman,
Hero or Martyr?
Mural in the Kansas Capitol
building
by John Steuart Curry (20c
)

14. Birth of the Republican
Party, 1854ß Northern Whigs.
ß Northern Democrats.
ß Free-Soilers.
ß Know-Nothings.
ß Other miscellaneous
opponents
of the Kansas-

15. 1856 Presidential1856 Presidential
ElectionElection
√ James Buchanan John C. Frémont
Millard Fillmore
Democrat Republican

16. 1856
Electi
on
Resul
ts

17. Dred Scott v.
Sanford, 1857

18. What caused the
Panic of 1857??
What were its
affects on the
nation?

19. The Lincoln-Douglas
(Illinois Senate)
Debates, 1858
A House
divided against
itself, cannot

20. Stephen Douglas
& the
Freeport Doctrine
Popular
Sovereign
ty?

21. John Brown’s Raid
on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

22. 18601860
PresidePreside
ntialntial
ElectionElection
√ Abraham
Lincoln
Republican
John Bell
Constitutional
Union
Stephen A.
Douglas
John C.
Breckinridge

23. Republican Party Platform
in 1860ß Non-extension of slavery [for the
Free-Soilers.
ß Protective tariff [for the No.
Industrialists].
ß No abridgment of rights for
immigrants [a disappointment for
the “Know-Nothings”].
ß Government aid to build a Pacific
RR [for the Northwest].
ß Internal improvements [for the

24. 1860 Election: 3 “Outs” &
1 ”Run!”

25. 1860 Election: A Nation
Coming Apart?!

26. 1860
Electio
n
Results

27. Crittenden
Compromise:
A Last Ditch Appeal to
Sanity
Senator John
J. Crittenden
(Know-
Nothing-KY)

28. Secession!: SC Dec.
20, 1860

29. Fort Sumter: April 12,
1861