Transcript Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
1852
 Sold 300,000 copies in
the first year.
 2 million in a decade!
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
"Admit Me Free" flags showed support for a free-state (anti-slavery)
Kansas. This one flew over a Pennsylvania rally in 1856.
Flags and banners often become part of political campaigns. In the
presidential elections of 1856 and 1860, the issue of Kansas statehood was
prominent. Flags stating "Admit Me Free" were used by the Republican
candidates, John C. Frémont and Abraham Lincoln, indicating their support for
a free-state Kansas.
This flag originally was used in a Republican campaign rally for
Frémont in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1856. Four years later it was used at a
rally for Lincoln.
“The Crime Against Kansas”
Sen. Charles Sumner
(R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks
(D-SC)
1856 Presidential Election
√ James Buchanan
Democrat
John C. Frémont
Republican
Millard Fillmore
Whig
1856
Election
Results
Dred Scott
Lincoln Douglas Debate
“House Divided Speech”
June 17, 1858
• “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe
this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave
and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved
— I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it
will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all
the other. Either thetaken
opponents
slavery will arrest the
from Mark of
3:25
further spread of it, and place it where the public mind
shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate
extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall
become lawful in all the States, old as well as new —
North as well as South”
• Accepted nomination for 1858 senate, taken from Mark
3:25, meant to differentiate himself from SD and to
challenge notion of popular sovereignty, rallied
Republicans in North, one of his best known speeches
The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate)
Debates, 1858
Last moments
of John Brown
Painting by
Thomas
Hovenden
Painting of a vengeful John Brown at the
museum at Harper’s Ferry
John Brown’s Body
Written By? 12th Massachusetts
Regiment as a spoof, to tease their
sergeant, also named John Brown.
The melody of the song was written
as a hymn tune by William Steffe, in
1856. In 1861, poet Julia Ward
Howe (1819–1910), and her
husband Samuel, visited a Union
Army camp near Washington, D.C.
They heard the soldiers singing
"John Brown’s Body," which starts
out, "John Brown’s body lies
a’molderin’ in the grave . . ." James
Freeman Clarke, a minister who
was with the Howes, suggested
that Julia write a new set of words
for the tune. Her poem, called
"Battle Hymn of the Republic,"
was published in the February 1862
Atlantic Monthly magazine.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
• In short, "Dixie" made the case, more strongly than any
previous minstrel tune had, that slaves belonged in
bondage.[14] This was accomplished through the song's
protagonist, who, in comic black dialect, implies that
despite his freedom, he is homesick for the plantation of
his birth:
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I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land whar I was born in,
Early on one frosty mornin,
– Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Birth of the Republican Party, 1854
ß Northern Whigs.
ß Northern Democrats.
ß Free-Soilers.
ß Know-Nothings.
ß Other miscellaneous opponents
of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Republican Party Platform in 1860
ß 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 West] at federal expense.
ß Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].
√ Abraham
Lincoln
Republican
Stephen A.
Douglas
1860 John Bell
Constitutional
Presiden Union
tial
Election
John C.
Breckinridge
1860 Election: 3 “Outs” & 1 ”Run!”
1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart?!
Crittenden Compromise:
A Last Ditch Appeal to Sanity
Senator John J.
Crittenden
(Know-Nothing-KY)
Crittenden Compromise
Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860
Which is the most important event
in the chain of events and why?
• Rank top 5 and justify your position
Why did the South Secede in 1860?
Election of Republican President
Fear of Lincoln--?
Expansion of slavery--?
Feared becoming a minority
Broken Compact
Inferiority complex--?
Southern Honor
Identity/ Way of life- sectional and regional
identity
Cause of Disunity and Discord
Expansion
States’ Rights
Presidents
Slavery
Fug.
Slave law
Abolition
Slaveocracy
Compromises
Constitution
How have we seen each fail in its
ability to keep the union together?
The Citizens
The Courts
The Congress
The President
Monroe
1820
Missouri Compromise
Adams
Fought gag rule in Congress
Jackson
1836
Polk
1845
Annexation of Texas
1846
Wilmot Proviso
‘46-48 Mexican War
Fillmore
1850
1851
1853
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Gadsden Purchase
Pierce
1854
1856
Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Pottawatomie Creek
Brookes/Sumner
Ostend Manifesto
William Walker/ Nicaragua
Perry/ Japan
Buchanan
1857
Dred Scott
H. Helper/Impending
Crisis
John Brown's Raid
Secession begins
Civil War Begins
Crittenden Comp
1859
Lincoln
1860
Gag Rule/ Mail Stoppage
Spot Resolution
Walker Tariff
CA Gold Rush
Oregon 49th Parallel
Resume
Failed in first business venture
Defeated for the Legislature
Failed in second business venture
Elected to the Legislature
Had a nervous breakdown
Defeated for Speaker
Defeated for Elector
Defeated for Congress
Elected to Congress
Lost seat in Congress
Defeated for the Senate
Defeated for Vice President
Defeated for the Senate
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Lincoln’s Inaugural Address
March 4, 1861
• In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,
and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
The government will not assail you. You can have no
conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.
You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy
the government, while I shall have the most solemn
one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
• I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have
strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart
and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet
swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched,
as surely they will be, by the better angels of our
nature.