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Page 1: World Class Education . Topic 4 Slavery and the Sectional Crisis Topic 4 Slavery and the Sectional Crisis 1

World Class Educationwww.kean.edu

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1. The Antebellum South2. Slavery and the “Cotton

Kingdom”3. Compromise of 18204. The Abolitionist movement5. Slavery and the Mexican

Cession 6. Compromise of 18507. Fugitive Slave Act (1850)8. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)9. “Bleeding Kansas”10. The Republican Party11. Election of 185612. Dred Scott Case (1857)13. Lincoln-Douglas Debates

(1858)14. John Brown’s Raid (1859)15. Election of 1860

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Large Slaveholders

Small Slaveholders Yeomen Farmers Poor Whites Slaves

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The Stono Rebellion (1739, South Carolina)

Gabriel’s Rebellion(1800, Virginia) Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion, led by Denmark Vessey Plot (1822, South

Carolina) Nat Turner’s (1831, Virginia)

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Henry Clay fashions an agreement Maine enters union as free state Missouri enters union as slave state All territory north of 36° 30´ closed to

slavery in Louisiana Purchase region Thomas Jefferson: “Fire Bell in the Night”

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Abolitionist - a vocal

minority Demand end to the

institution Violation of the Bible Emphasis on cruel

and inhuman treatment

Degraded both slave and master

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – best seller

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Wendell Phillips: orator Frederick Douglass:

former slave and journalist

William Lloyd Garrison: journalist (The Liberator)

Harriet Tubman: former slave, underground railroad

Sara and Angelina Grimké: educators

Owen Lovejoy: journalist

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Territorial division formula: Missouri Compromise (1820);Compromise of 1850; Crittenden Compromise (proposed 1860)

Free-Soil formula: Wilmot Proviso (proposed 1846) – no expansion of slavery

Pro-Slavery formula: John C. Calhoun’s position in 1847; Dred Scott decision (1857) – Federal government cannot restrict expansion

Popular Sovereignty formula: Lewis Cass / Stephen Douglas – let voters decide in territories – Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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The Wilmot Proviso (1848) Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act (1850) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Kansas-Nebraska Act

(1854) “Bleeding Kansas” Brooks-Sumner Incident

(1856) Dred Scott Case (1857) Lincoln-Douglas Debates

(1858) / Freeport Doctrine / Popular Sovergniity

John Brown’s Raid (1859) Election of 1860 Secession of Southern

states, Dec 1860 – May 1861

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Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the ante-bellum South

Peter Kolchin, American Slavery: 1691-1877

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