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    The document summarizes key events leading up to the American Civil War. It discusses the formation of the Republican Party in opposition to the expansion of slavery. It also outlines the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman's role in helping slaves escape. John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry is described, as is the election of 1860 and southern states' secession after Lincoln's victory.

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    What was the Compromise of

    1850? What did it do?


    Word of the Day-Fugitive Slave
    Act-

    A Nation Headed for War

    Birth of the Republican Party


    Democrats, Whigs
    and Free Soilers form
    Republican Party
    Republican did not
    want the immediate
    abolition of slavery
    Adopted Free Soilers
    stance on ending
    slavery in new
    territories

    Lincoln-Douglas Debates
    Senators were
    elected by legislature,
    not by the people
    Both Abraham Lincoln
    and Stephen Douglas
    ran for US Senate in
    Illinois
    Held public debates
    that caught the
    nations attention

    Lincoln-Douglas Debates
    Lincoln was against
    expanding slavery into
    new territories
    Douglas argued for
    popular sovereignty
    Douglas wanted to be
    president in 1860
    Tried to please southern
    Democrats and Northern
    Republicans

    Lincoln-Douglas Debates
    Douglas issued
    Freeport Doctrine
    Said there must be
    laws to regulate
    slavery
    Douglas won the
    Senatorial election
    Was hurt nationally by
    refusing to support
    the Dred Scott ruling

    Underground Rail Road


    Slave codes made
    people realize
    government was not
    ready to abolish slavery
    The Underground
    Railroad was
    established
    Not an actual railroad
    Series of safe houses
    used by runaway slaves
    to escape to the North
    or even Canada

    Harriet Tubman
    Most famous
    conductors
    Tubman was a small
    lady that escaped
    slavery
    She made 19 trips
    back into the south
    and helped free many
    slaves

    John Browns Raid


    Radical white
    abolitionist, led many
    violent attacks in
    Kansas
    Felt that slavery was
    a sin against God
    He and a group of
    about 20 men raided
    the garrison at
    Harpers Ferry,
    Virginia

    John Browns Raid


    The goal was to take
    weapons and give them
    to slaves so that slaves
    could rise up
    The plan failed when US
    troops, led by Robert E
    Lee, surrounded the
    garrison
    Brown and his men
    arrested in the garrison

    John Browns Raid


    Brown and 19 men
    hanged at the
    governments
    approval
    Southern hatred of
    abolitionist grew

    I, John Brown, am quite certain that the crimes


    of this guilty land will never be purged away but
    with blood

    Election of 1860
    Slavery was the
    biggest issue
    Republicans chose
    Abraham Lincoln
    Democrats were
    divided along sectional
    lines
    Stephen Douglas and
    John Breckenridge ran
    as Democrat
    candidates

    Election of 1860
    South felt threatened
    by Lincoln, they felt
    that he would outlaw
    slavery, not only in
    the new territories,
    but also in the South
    Abe Lincoln was
    completely left off the
    ballots in the south

    Election of 1860
    The South supported
    Stephen Douglas
    because he was for
    popular sovereignty
    Abe Lincoln won
    every North state
    Named 16th
    President of the
    United States

    Southern Secession
    When it was
    announced that Abe
    Lincoln won the
    election, South
    Carolina seceded
    from the Union on
    December 20, 1860
    By February, six other
    states had also left
    the Union (Ms, Al, Ga,
    Dl, La, Tx)

    Southern Secession
    States met in
    Montgomery,
    Alabama to draft
    constitution
    Jefferson Davis
    elected the first
    president of the
    Confederate States of
    America

    Preserving the Union


    Many thought Lincoln
    could sway the
    remaining southern
    states to remain in the
    Union
    Lincoln had no
    purpose, directly or
    indirectly, to interfere
    with the institution of
    slavery in the States
    where it exists

    Preserving the Nation


    He also argued that
    the Union could only
    be dissolved by a
    unanimous
    agreement of all
    states
    Not an unhappy
    minority

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