Hist 2010 1st Edition Lecture 28Outline of Last LectureIII. Intensifying Sectional DivisionsIV. Results of US Expansion in 1840sOutline of Current LectureNorthern & Southern Views on Slavery in the TerritoriesII. Moving From Compromise to Secession, 1850-1859D. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) Stephen Douglas, chairman of committee that oversees territories No railroad company will build on land that is unorganized Measure passed by congress sole purpose was to organize the unorganized company and took the remainder of the LA purchase and organized it into Nebraska and Kansas These two territories will use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery When it is introduced it is outraged and protest in the north because it is above the Missouri compromise line and this line said no slavery permitted above the line in the LA states and you have to possibility of the new states saying yes to slavery An example of slave power conspiracy Bring increase population along with railroad and throw the south the bone so he could get more supporters It destroys the Whig political party Bears the Republican partyE. The Rise of the Republican Party These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act Northern only party, sectional party Anti- slavery party not abolitionist Southerners are alarmed by this1. Election of 1856 Frist national election In their first the republican party gets 33% of all votes cast and 114 electoral votes it is an incredible good showing A LOT OF SUPPORTJohn Fremont (R) vs. James Buchanan (D)- John is an abolitionist - Buchanan WINSF. Bleeding Kansas (1856-58) Multiple murders and raids 1. Pottawotomie Creek Massacre (1856)John Brown- good illustration of anti-slave men coming into Kansas- comes in to make it free soil- he and his men killed with their swords a handful of men who support slavery- he was never prosecuted for that- it illustrates the tension between pro and anit-slavery 2. The Caning of Charles Sumner (1856) Charles Sumner was a Mass senate On the floor of the senate he delivered a speech against the crime that was going on in Kansas because pro-slaves moved in there He singled out a member from S.C. Andrew Butler, he insults him during the speech The next day Preston brooks heard about what had happened andhe crossed the capitol to approach Sumner at his desk and he beats him with his cane Result: Charles cannot return to the floor North is outraged South is satisfied because he defends slavery N & S divided G. Dred Scott Decision (1857) Dred Scott was a slave of a military officer of Missouri When Dred Scotts owners died and since he was taken on free soil in free state he should be free Real goal was supreme court to deal with he overall issue of slavery March 1857, 7/2 decision they decide:- that he is a slave and he cannot bring suit in federal court - Dred Scott was a slave and was protected by their master’sand therefore he can be taken by his master into any territory- Dred Scott is considered “property” so that means that theMissouri Compromise is unconstitutional- Before this the best hope for southerners was popular sovereignty - Now with this southerners abandoned this and they call for the Dred Scott to be enforced and slaves should be ableto be taken into territory and the federal government protects the slaves- It further divides the N & SH. John Brown’s Raid (1859) His plan is to take an armed band into Virginia and go to Harpers Ferry, VA(arsenal there) seize those weapons. Slaves were going to run away from plantations pass out the guns and then run to the south and then have anarmy of slaves Him and his men do make it to Harpers ferry and seize the arsenal and no slaves come Local citizens rise up and trade fire on Brown and his men Robert E. Lee Co. of the U.S. army goes in and kills some of the army and his are captured and Brown is captured Looks like Brown was acting on abolitionist of the North and that prevent the Southerners Showed that the Northerners wanted to END slavery once and for all They put him on trial and they hang his and his followers, to southerners he was a
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