HIST 106 Lecture 1Outline of Current Lecture- Missouri Compromise of 1820- Compromise of 1850- Kansas-Nebraska Act- Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)- 1860 Presidential Election Current LectureA Very Abridged Political History of the Civil War -Some Key Events Leading Up to the War-Missouri Compromise of 1820oAdmitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state oProhibited slavery in rest of Louisiana purchase above line 36 30 NoCompromise: state admitted on each side-Compromise of 1850 (including Fugitive Slave Law)o2 of 5 measures were concessions from S to N (make north happy):prohibited slave trade (not slave holding) in D.C., California admitted asa free stateo3rd was concession from N to S (make South happy): Fugitive Slave Act - provided for return of runaway slaveso4th: Texas gave of land to fed government to be New Mexico territory-New Mexico and Utah territory had no rules on slavery (popular vote)o5th:Texas gets $10 million for landoMajority of Americans liked the compromise as a whole because they believed it solved the problem and prevented conflict -Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854oAllowed people in Kansas and Nebraska territories to decided slavery rules by popular sovereignty oResulted in civil war within those territories ("Bleeding Kansas")-This made reconciliation virtually impossible -Brought about the Republican party (against slavery) -Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)oLived in free areas while enslaved but was moved back to slave statesoWanted freedom because he lived in free states where slavery was illegal oCourt Decision: African Americans were not and could not becomecitizens of the United States, never free because he was property so it didn’t matter where he lived oChief Justice Taney: AA are so inferior that they have no rights a white man is bound to respect-John Brown & the Raid on Harper’s FerryoJohn Brown was a white abolitionist and organized a raid oWas defeated by U.S. military and then Colonel Robert E. LeeoSped up the arrival of the Civil War -1860 Presidential ElectionoLincoln winsoBy February in 1861, most of the South had seceded oCivil War began in April at Ft. Sumter, S.C.oCivil War was not originally about slavery, it was to preserve the UnionoLincoln wanted to save the Union, wanted to stop the spread of slavery but not necessarily end it in the entire