Transcript Timeline of Events Mexican War

TIMELINE of EVENTS
Mexican War
to the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War
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Personal liberty laws
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown
“Bleeding Kansas”
Nativism
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Free-Soil Party
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Dred Scott
Roger B. Taney
Abraham Lincoln
Freeport Doctrine
Harpers Ferry
Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1858
John Brown raids
Harper’s Ferry
1859
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
Compromise of
1850
Bleeding Kansas
1854
Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1852
Underground Railroad
Brooks
Beats
Sumner
1854
Lincoln
Elected
1860
Dred Scott v Sanford
1857
Fort Sumter Attacked
1861
Timeline of Events Mexican War to Civil War
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Compromise of 1850
Created by Henry Clay to solve the controversy
between free states and slave states
The terms of the Compromise of 1850:
1. North got California admitted to the Union
as a free state
2. South got a strict fugitive slave law
3. Popular sovereignty (allowing residents of
the new territories to vote for or against
slavery) would determine the status of
states in the future
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• In 1852, abolitionist Harriet
Beecher Stowe published
the world-wide best seller,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• The book created major
sectional friction
• The South criticized the book
as an attack on the Southern
way of life
• The North increased its
protests against the Fugitive
Slave Act
• When Lincoln met
Stowe during the Civil
War, he said, “So this
is the little lady who
made the big war.”
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Underground Railroad
• In reaction to the
Fugitive Slave Act, the
Underground
Railroad was
established
• It was a network to
aid fugitives slaves to
freedom from the
South to the North
• The most famous
“conductor” was
Harriet Tubman
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Stephen Douglas pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
through Congress which called for popular
sovereignty to be tested in the territories of Kansas
and Nebraska
• People from Missouri (slave state) moved to Kansas to
vote illegally and they won a majority.
• A proslavery government was established in
Lecompton, Kansas
• An anti-slavery government was established in
Lawrence, Kansas
• In the months to come, Kansas was plagued with an
outbreak of violence between the two opposing sides
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Bleeding Kansas
• The rift in Kansas led to
violence and murders
• Abolitionist John Brown
led the “Pottawatomie
Massacre” by
kidnapping five
proslavery men &
killing them
• Over 200 people were
killed
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Brooks beats Sumner
• Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was
verbally attacking supporters of slavery,
especially Andre P. Butler of South Carolina
• Butler’s nephew (Preston Brooks) entered the
Senate floor and attacked Sumner with his cane
• Sumner suffers shock and brain damage
• Southerners applauded Brooks!
• Northerners saw this as another example of
Southern brutality
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Dred Scott was a slave from
Missouri (slave state) who
lived with his owner for four
years in free territory
• When they returned to
Missouri, his owner died
• Scott sued for his freedom,
stating that since he lived in
free territory, he should be
free
• Supreme Court Justice Roger
B. Taney ruled that slaves did • He also ruled the
Missouri Compromise
not have the rights of citizens
and could not even sue
was unconstitutional
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates
• The 1858 Illinois Senate race produced an
important debate on the issue of the extension of
slavery in the territories
•Douglas: did not believe slavery was immoral;
believed popular sovereignty would kill slavery in
time
•Lincoln: believed slavery was immoral; believed
legislation was required to end slavery; slavery
should not be allowed to spread
•Key to Lincoln: “I am not, nor ever have been, in
favor of bringing about in any way the social and
political equality of the white and black races.”
•Douglas won the Senate seat, but Lincoln and
his beliefs were introduced to the nation.
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Lincoln Elected (1860)
• No Southern states voted for
Lincoln
• South Carolina was the first
state to secede
• The Southern states formed
The Confederate States of
America (Confederacy) in
1861
• Jefferson Davis was elected
President of the Confederacy
Question: Do states have the
right to secede from the
Union?
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Raid on Harpers Ferry
•On October 16, 1859,
abolitionist John Brown
led a band of 21 men,
black and white, to seize a
federal arsenal in Harpers
Ferry, VA.
•His goal was to arm the
men and start a general
slave insurrection
•Plan failed and Brown
was captured and hanged
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Fort Sumter Attacked (1861)
• The first shots of the Civil War were fired at
Fort Sumter in South Carolina
• Confederates took over federal installations in
their states
• Lincoln
considers
this an act
of rebellion
and treason
Consequences
• Unites the South
• Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to
serve for three months
• Virginia secedes-great loss for North
• West Virginia is formed in 1863
• Eleven states make up the Confederacy
• Four slave states remain in the Union
Civil War Begins
• Everyone
expected a
short war
• Lincoln’s goal and
purpose for going to
war: Preserve the
Union
Freeport Doctrine
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S. Douglas
Part of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
After the Dred Scott decision
He said that slavery could be prevented in
any territory if the people who lived there
did not pass laws that favored it
Know-Nothing Party
• The Know-Nothing
Party was established
to favor native-born
Americans (nativism)
• They used secret
handshakes and
passwords
• anti-Catholic and
anti-immigrant