2. Missouri
Compromise
1820
Compromise
of 1850
Kansas
Nebraska
Act 1854

3. KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT
 Introduced by Stephen
Douglas
 Method of resolving the
Kansas Nebraska territory
issue
 Repeal Missouri
Compromise and Introduce
popular sovereignty (For
both Kansas & Nebraska)
 Becomes law in 1854
STEPHEN DOUGLAS

4. POPULATE, SETTLE ANDVOTE
 Pro-Slavery and
abolitionists race to settle
Kansas
 Settlers to vote on slavery
(popular sovereignty)
 Pro-slavery people from
Missouri cross border to
vote (fraud)
 Pro slavery government
established in Lecompton
RESULT OF ELECTION
 Abolitionists furious over
events
 Establish government in
Topeka (1855)
 Conflict between the
escalates
 “Bloody Kansas” is termed

5. CANING OF SUMNER
 Charles Sumner (Mass)
speaks on “The Crime Against
Kansas”
 Verbally condemns south,
slavery and some southern
senators
 Congressman Brooks strikes
Sumner in the head
(repeatedly) on the chamber
floor
 Sumner suffered brain
damage
BROOKSATTACK ON SUMNER

6. Slavery/
Immigration
Democrats
Know
Nothing
Free SoilWhigs
Republican

7. Dred Scott
Decision
• 1857
Lincoln-
Douglas
Debates
• 1858
Harpers
Ferry
• 1859
Lincoln
Election
• 1860

8.  South Carolina: December 20, 1860
 Mississippi, Alabama,Georgia, LA,Texas
 1861 Confederate States of America
 Jefferson Davis; Mississippi

10. STRENGTH
People/Population
Production/Factories
Railway System
STRATEGY
Blockade
Ports
Take
Mississippi
Must
Conquer
toWing
Take
Richmond

11. STRENGTH
Cotton
Generals/ WarTrained
Motivated Soldiers
STRATEGY
 Stay in the field
 Don’t let them take the
South
 Defensive

12. BULL RUN
 Also called Battle of
Manassas (by South)
 First Battle of the war
 Union crosses Bull Run to
begin march toward
Richmond
 Confederate Army stands
firm/ Stonewall Jackson
 ConfederateWin
 Some thought war was
over and went home

14.  Judith Carter Henry
 85 years old
 Refused to leave her
house

15.  Ulysses S. Grant
 Feb. 1862
 Fort Henry (Tennessee
River)
 Fort Donelson
( Cumberland River)
 Shiloh/25000 killed,
wounded, captured
 Farragut
 Seizes New Orleans
(April 1862)
 Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead

16.  September 17, 1862
 Stroke of Luck
 Found Lee’s orders
wrapped around cigars
 Armies were divided
 26,000 casualties
 McClellan does not
pursue the
Confederate Army into
Virginia

17.  Lincoln