Transcript APUSH – December 6

APUSH – December 6
• Objectives:
– To demonstrate your mastery of the chapter 19 key terms
• Due today:
– Chapter 19 key terms
• Homework:
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Tuesday: “Beloved” 20-26
Wednesday: Lincoln-Douglas debate (pdf online)
Thursday: “Beloved” 27-end
Friday: Chapter 20 key terms and quiz, “Gettysburg Address” and “Ms.
Bixby” readings (pdf online)
• Agenda:
– Chapter 19 review
– Chapter 19 quiz
– Lincoln-Douglas Debate reading
1854-1861
CHAPTER 19: DRIFTING TOWARD
DISUNION
Literary Incendiaries
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
– “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
• Hinda R. Helper
– “The Impending Crisis of
the South”
The North-South Contest for Kansas
• Kansas
– The worst possible
working for popular
sovereignty
• Population
• Elections
Kansas In
Convulsion
•John Brown
•Civil War in Kansas
•Kansas Statehood
•Lecompton
Constitution
Bully Brooks and His Bludgeon
• Charles Sumner of
Massachusettes
• Preston S. Brooks of
South Carolina
• Outcomes:
– House of Reps
– Free Soilers
– South
“Old Buck” Versus “The Pathfinder”
Democrats – James Buchanan
• Problem Pierce and Douglas
• Popular Sovereignty
Campaign:
•Antiforeignism
•Slavery
•Mudslinging
Know Nothing Party:
•Filmore
•Nativists
Republicans – John C Fremont
• Problem with Seward
• Against extension of slavery
The Electoral Fruits of 1856
• Winner =
Buchanan
• Republicans
– Good showing
The Dred Scott Bombshell
• Dred Scott v. Sanford
• Ruling
• Effects
The Financial Crash of 1857
• Late 1857 panic burst
• Causes of the crash
• Effects and response in
the South
• Effects and response in
the North
– Homestead Act
– Tariff of 1857
An Illinois Rail
Splitter
•IL Senatorial
Election 1858
•Lincoln
•Bio
•Politics
The Great Debate: Lincoln Vs. Douglas
• Lincoln challenged
Douglas to debates
• Freeport Doctrine
• Outcome of the
election
• Further split democrats
John Brown: Murderer of Martyr
Harper’s Ferry Incident
North’s response
• Leaders and moderates
• Abolitionists and Free
soilers
South’s response
• Saw Brown as a murderer
and treason
The Disruption of the Democrats
Northern Democrats
Southern Democrats
• Baltimore
• Douglas
• Platform
• Rival convention
in Baltimore
• Breckenridge
• Platform
Constitutional
Union Party
• Purpose
• “Old
Gentlemen”
• John Bell
• Platform
Fate of American history and the election of 1860: peace or civil war?
The Democrats were divided
South Carolina and Douglas
A Rail-Splitter Splits the Union
• Republican Nominating
Convention
• Seward vs. Lincoln
• Platform
• South’s reponse
• Campaign
The Electoral Upheaval of 1860
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Lincoln
Douglas
Breckenridge
Bell
South
– Outcomes
The Secessionist Exodus
• South Carolina
– Special
Convention of
1860
• Confederate
States of
America
– Jefferson
Davis
• Buchanan =
Lame Duck
– Couldn’t save
the union
The Collapse of Compromise
• James Henry
Crittenden
– Crittenden
compromise
• Lincoln’s
response
• Could
Buchanan have
prevented civil
war?
Farwell to the Union
• The
secessionists
left for many
reasons
• Support for
secession
• South