Chapter 19

Drifting Toward Disunion

______________ Territory• Remember: ______________________________________________________• Provided:• Both Northern abolitionists and Southern slavocrats (____________) turned this into a

battleground _____________________• Northern Response: ___________________________________:• Purpose: __________________________________________________________(HO, for

Kansas)• Outcome: _______________• Weapon of choice: ______________________• Story: pro-Southern "border ruffians" jumped over from Missouri to Kansas to

“______________________The South "won" the election for Kansas to become a slave state and set up a government

*_________________ got mad and set up their own government in Lawrence, KansasLeads to : ___________________

May 21, 1856

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____________________ - abolitionist Sent by God “_____________________________”

“a man made of the stuff of saints” “________________________”

This Massacre triggered others….therefore “________________” - nickname of territory due to the level of violence and _________________________________________________________

Kansas Statehood?• Kansas wants to become a state and writes up the ___________________________- Kansas has slavery and it was sent to Washington- ________________(1856-1860) passed it and then it went to the Senate- ________________(Congressmen) killed the LECOMPTON

CONSTITUTION because it did not apply “__________________”- Tricky Issue: People didn’t vote on the full/whole constitution / only

voting on a constitution ____________________________- (*) Vote AGAINST slavery = slave owners already present are protected- (*) Vote FOR slavery = slavocrats win- *Lecompton Constitution NEVER passed and Kansas remained a territory

until 1861- Problem: ______________________________________

Violence in the Senate / ________________/ ___________________(May, 1856)

• ____________________ (Mass. / northerner abolitionist) writes a speech entitled “___________________” (attacks ________, _____________ and the ________________) – later to become the “rallying or battle cry against slavery” • ____________________(South Carolina Congressman / southerner) attacks

Sumner in the Senate Chamber• Brooks caned Sumner in the head until it broke (brain damage) / Southerners

presented Brooks with an other cane with the inscription “Hit Him Again!!!!!

________________

(1856) Slave owner took Dred Scott (slave) from _____ & lived in ________________) for 4 years - later, returned to Missouri, owner died…Dred Scott begins a lawsuit for the grant of freedom for him and his wife• Missouri Supreme Court ruled against• Dred Scott appeals and Supreme Court ___________________________________

• Dred Scott V. Sandford

CHIEF JUSTICE: ______________________ 4 OUTCOMES OF THE DRED SCOTT DECISION1.Dred Scott (and all slaves) are _____________________and 2. ___________________________________3. Congress cannot _________________(___________________________)4. _______________________________________all along (because it’d banned slavery north of the 36° 30’ line and property is protected under the _______________

1858 Senatorial Race• Democrats: _______________________• Republicans: _______________________

___________________________Lincoln challenges Douglas to 7 debates in Illinois to a captivated nationUnderdog: LincolnFAMOUS SPEECH: _________________________________________________– “a house divided against itself cannot stand…..”Most Noted Debate: Freeport, IllinoisLincoln asks Douglas to choose “________________________________________________________________________________________” (lose-lose)Douglas’ response: ________________________: People have the powerOUTCOME: Douglas wins the 1858 Senate seat for Illinois, but lost the confidence of the South to win the Presidential election of 1860.

Bottom line: Lincoln knew exactly what he was doing!

John Brown: Murderer or Martyr? ______________________________

John Brown re-emerged in _____________________with a wild plan to abolish slavery. His plan: to take over the ________________________, pass out weapons to local slaves, initiate a huge revolt, and thus free the slaves.OUTCOME: he and his men took over a building but were quickly captured by the ____________led by __________________. He was quickly captured, tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged.JOHN BROWN’S DEATH:Southern View: _______________________________________________________________________________Northern View: _______________________________________________________________________________________________This “Martyr” image gave strength to the morality, or lack there of, to slavery

Lincoln’s view on slavery / _______________________________

• Lincoln didn’t want to stop or preserve slavery…whatever it took to “____________________________”

• MAIN RESULT OF THE 1860 PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY FOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN:– ____________________ from the Union if Lincoln was elected – Defense / claim: ________________________– South Carolina seceded the Union in December 1860!– “Deep South” states followed after South Carolina(Ex. Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas) and then others Buchanan did not do a single thing to keep the Union intact

*______________________________(Buchanan was STILL President)

*Did little or nothing to stop the states from leaving the U.S.Rationale:(1) ______________________________________________________(2) Couldn’t use the _______________________(unconstitutional)(3) Possibility of “_______________________”(4) _____________________________________(Waiting it out)

__________________________• Formed in February 1861• Location: Met in ______________and formed the Confederacy• President of the Confederacy (South) was_________________________ “the time for compromise is over”Southern rationale / hopes: - ________________________________ - it worked in the ___________________ - gain their _______________________ - thought the ___________________________(wrong)

Confederate States of America Constitution

Bringing back the Missouri Compromise?

• One last hopeful Compromise?A final attempt at compromise was made by ___________________of ___________. _______________________proposed to extend the ________________________’ to California; north of the line would be free in territorial status, south of it would be slave and protected during territorial status.REACTIONS:NorthernSouthernTaneyLincolnStephen Douglas