Movement toward war. Influences Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Written as a response to...

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Movement toward war

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Page 1: Movement toward war. Influences Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Written as a response to the Fugitive Slave Law. Energized Northern sympathies.

Movement toward war

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Influences

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Written as a response to the Fugitive Slave Law.

• Energized Northern sympathies for the plight of the slaves.

• Huge influence on the outcome of the war.

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Hinton R. Helper

• The Impending Crisis of the South

• Viewed slavery as hurting nonslaveholding whites.

• Added fuel to the fire.

John Brown

• Fanatical abolitionist

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Sumner-Brooks Fight

• Senator/Representative.

Sumner-Mass. Brooks-SC.

• Sumner was an abolitionist who made disparaging remarks about Senator Butler of South Carolina.

• Brooks responds by beating him with a cane in the middle of the Senate.

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Bleeding Kansas

• Failure of popular sovereignty.

• Groups vied for control of the state.

• New England Emigrant Aid Company. Sent abolitionists to Kansas to thwart the Southerners.

• First territorial legislature. “border ruffians” from Missouri. Bloodshed, separate gov’ts, etc.

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Lecompton Constitution

• Attempt by Southern sympathizers to permanently establish slavery in Kansas.

• Supported by President Buchanan.

• Opposed by Stephen Douglas. Fought for true popular sovereignty.

• This episode resulting into the split of the democratic party.

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Dred Scott

• Supreme Court decision.

March 1857.

• Did residency in a free state give Scott the right to his freedom?

• Slaves had no rights under the Constitution.

• Slaves were property and could be taken into any territory.

• Congress had no power to ban slavery in the territories.

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Things add up

• Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

• Territorial legislatures were themselves powerless to ban slavery. Rights of personal property guaranteed by the 5th Amendment take precedence.

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Election of 1856