Timeline: 1850-1861

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    LeCompton Constitution

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Kansas Nebraska Act?

    Nabraska was too far north to have good agruculture so that teritory was safe from the
  • Republican Party

    why
    supporters
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    Bloody Kansas

    Bloody Kansas was a set of internal conflicts fought in Kansas. The conflicts was started because the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people to choose through popular sovereignty if Kansas would enter the U.S. as a free or slave state. Emigrants from both the north and the south moved to Kansas in the attempt to influence the vote, but having a large influx of people with polar opposite believes led to conflict that eventually snowballed into the battle of Lawrence in May 21, 1856.
  • Election 1856

    Whos running and the score
    what was the problem at hand
    (The problem at hand was how the conflicts of slavery, esspesiolally bloody kansas, would be solved)
  • Brooks-Sumner lncident

  • Dred Scott Case

    The issue of the court was whether or not Dred Scott, and by extension other African Americans, had the right to freedom if they lived in free land. The court ruled (7-2) that A. Dred Scott didn’t have the same rights as white men because Blacks weren't classified as citizens and B. Congress didn’t have the power to prevent slavery from the territories, leaving it to popular sovereignty. The decision that Congress couldn't prevent slavery led to the Missouri Compromise to become unconstitutional
  • House Divided Speech

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    Lincoln Douglas Debates

    The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were a presidential campaign for the election of 1860.
  • Harper's Ferry

  • John Brown Execution

  • Election of 1860

    The issue at hand for the election of 1860 was the division of the states because of the topic of slavery. Lincoln won the election (180 electoral college votes) which was about 60 more than all the other political runners combined. Interestingly, even though Lincoln won, his name didn't even show as on option in 10 states; this was one of the biggest driving force of the south seceding from the U.S. because the south felt like their vote and interests weren't being addressed.
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    Secession of States

    Originally 7 states seceded from the union : South Carolina (the first), Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. 4 more states seceded from the U.S. after Ft. Sumter: Virginia (but not all of it, which is why there's Virginia and West Virginia now), North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee.
    The states seceded mainly because of the conflict about keeping slaves or not.
  • Lincoln's 1" lnaugural Address

    The purpose was to cover his plans for his presidency and his hopes for the nation moving forward. He states that he wants to protect the “more perfect union” without bloodshed. Lincoln covered the disconnect between the north and the south while also claiming that he doesn't have the right or reason to prevent slavery where it already exists; however, he would prevent the spreading of slavery.