Chapter 14CRISIS, 1850’S

1850

• Expansion, growth

1850

• 23 mil.• Wealthier • Industry (2nd)• Exports

• Slave south?

NATIONAL IDENTITY• American Renaissance• Moby Dick, Scarlet Letter• Douglass

– Brutality

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin– Action

SLAVERY• Conflict• Hottest issue

SOCIETY

• Two perspectives• Slavery, economics, social• Slavery, most important

COMPROMISE

• Slavery• No slavery

Popular Sovereignty

• Slavery• People voted

The Compromise of 1850• California: free state • New Mexico, Utah: popular sovereignty• Slave trade, D.C.• Fugitive slave act

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

• Plains: settlement• Native lands • Slavery?

“Bleeding Kansas”

• Both sides• Southern militia• John Brown: abolitionist

• Violence and division• Premonition

DIVISION

• Politics • Nation

Republicans

• Anti-slavery, anti-Catholic• Modern day Republicans• Lincoln

DRED SCOTT V. SANFORD

• Supreme Court • Scott family • Decision

– Scott: slave, cannot sue– All Blacks: not citizens

HARPER’S FERRY

• John Brown• Federal arsenal, VA• Slave uprising• Northern financial support• martyr or lunatic?

The execution by hanging of John Brown, December 2, 1859 is depicted in this popular image in a northern newspaper as a solemn military occasion. Southerners were angered and alarmed by popular northern opinion that regarded Brown as a martyr rather than as a terrorist. SOURCE:Frank Leslie ’s Illustrated

Newspaper ,December 10,1859.Library of Congress.

1860 ELECTION

• 2nd highest turnout• Lincoln

– Slavery– Social equality?– Preserve Union

• Winner: division

Secession• Break way• December 1860, South Carolina• Confederate States of America

– Slavery