Lecture 4, Wednesday 9/19/12 – Sectionalism to Secession

Compromise of 1850 -what did it do? – [For Friday, check out the Christiana Riot and find a source about it] The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action, S. Douglas & K-N Act 1854

Consequences: artificial immigration & rival governments Missouri Border Ruffians / New England Emigrant Aid Co

rival territorial governments, one pro-slavery, one anti- [March/ Nov.1855] “Bleeding Kansas”- Spring 1856 – Lawrence, Pottowatomie Creek, etc.

Bleeding Sumner : Preston Brooks & Charles Sumner -- [5/1856] -- “The Crime Against Kansas” Dred Scott Case – 1857 – African Americans as Citizens?

-- Validity of Missouri Compromise? -- Validity of Popular Sov.?

Political Manifestation of Sectional Tension on the National LevelWhy a Republican Victory in 1860? Pol. Backgrnd.– rise of new parties/end 2nd party syst.

Trouble for the Democrats in the 1850s Stephen Douglas’s complicated road to a presidential nomination

Kansas-Nebraska 1856Freeport Doctrine [Freeport, IL] – 1858 -- llinois’s Senatorial election

Envisioning Extremists at the GateJohn Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA [1859]

  1860 election campaign – four candidates

 

 

Response to Lincoln’s electionSecession – Lower SouthSecessionists – who were they?The Legality of Secession?Fort Sumter -- “Star of the West” 

Creation of the Confederacy – February 1861/ Montgomery, AL/ moderates in command

Stephen Douglas -- IL Senator

Pop. Sovereignty Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854

How can I grow in stature as a politician? …would a big railroad help?

Stephen Douglas

IL Senator – Head of Senate Committee on Territories

Popular Sovereignty

Kansas-Nebraska Act

“If we will only act conscientiously and rigidly upon this great principle of popular sovereignty, which guarantees to each State and Territory the right to do as it pleases on all things, local and domestic, instead of Congress interfering, we will continue at peace one with another . . . Under that principle we have become, from a feeble nation, the most powerful on the face of the earth, and if we only adhere to that principle, we can go forward increasing in territory, in power, in strength and in glory until the Republic of America shall be the North Star that shall guide the friends of freedom throughout the civilized world.”– Senator Stephen Douglas,1858

John Brown

Lecture 4, Wednesday 9/19/12 – Sectionalism to Secession

Compromise of 1850 -what did it do? – [For Friday, check out the Christiana Riot and find a source about it] The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action, S. Douglas & K-N Act 1854

Consequences: artificial immigration & rival governments Missouri Border Ruffians / New England Emigrant Aid Co

rival territorial governments, one pro-slavery, one anti- [March/ Nov.1855] “Bleeding Kansas”- Spring 1856 – Lawrence, Pottowatomie Creek, etc.

Bleeding Sumner : Preston Brooks & Charles Sumner -- [5/1856] -- “The Crime Against Kansas” Dred Scott Case – 1857 – African Americans as Citizens?

-- Validity of Missouri Compromise? -- Validity of Popular Sov.?

Political Manifestation of Sectional Tension on the National LevelWhy a Republican Victory in 1860? Pol. Backgrnd.– rise of new parties/end 2nd party syst.

Trouble for the Democrats in the 1850s Stephen Douglas’s complicated road to a presidential nomination

Kansas-Nebraska 1856Freeport Doctrine [Freeport, IL] – 1858

Illinois’s Senatorial electionEnvisioning Extremists at the Gate

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA [1859]  1860 election campaign – four candidates

 

 

Rep. Preston Brooks [SC]

Sen. Andrew Butler [SC]

Sen. Charles Sumner [MA]

Dred Scott Case 1857The justices addressed three questions:

Could a black person be a citizen and therefore sue in federal court?

Did residence in a free state make Scott free?

Did Congress possess the power to prohibit slavery in a territory?

Lecture 4, Wednesday 9/19/12 – Sectionalism to Secession

Compromise of 1850 -what did it do? – [For Friday, check out the Christiana Riot and find a source about it] The Fight over Kansas – Problematic Popular Sovereignty in Action, S. Douglas & K-N Act 1854

Consequences: artificial immigration & rival governments Missouri Border Ruffians / New England Emigrant Aid Co

rival territorial governments, one pro-slavery, one anti- [March/ Nov.1855] “Bleeding Kansas”- Spring 1856 – Lawrence, Pottowatomie Creek, etc.

Bleeding Sumner : Preston Brooks & Charles Sumner -- [5/1856] -- “The Crime Against Kansas” Dred Scott Case – 1857 – African Americans as Citizens?

-- Validity of Missouri Compromise? -- Validity of Popular Sov.?

Political Manifestation of Sectional Tension on the National LevelWhy a Republican Victory in 1860? Pol. Backgrnd.– rise of new parties/end 2nd party syst.

Trouble for the Democrats in the 1850s Stephen Douglas’s complicated road to a presidential nomination

Kansas-Nebraska 1856Freeport Doctrine [Freeport, IL] – 1858

Illinois’s Senatorial electionEnvisioning Extremists at the Gate

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA [1859]  1860 election campaign – four candidates

 

 

Lincoln-Douglas Debates1858 Senatorial ElectionFreeport Doctrine – “slavery cannot exist a day or an houranywhere unless supported by local police regulations”Interpretation: Slavery as unnatural institution, needing

unnatural protection

Response to Lincoln’s electionSecession – Lower SouthSecessionists – who were they?The Legality of Secession?Fort Sumter -- “Star of the West” 

Creation of the Confederacy – February 1861/ Montgomery, AL/ moderates in command

THE STEAMSHIP "STAR OF THE WEST.“From Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861

Jefferson Davis & Alexander StephensConfederate Leaders 1861

• If cotton had not become the premier cash crop, would sectionalism have been a problem in the United States?

• If US territory had remained bound to the eastern side of the Mississippi River, would sectionalism have intensified?

• It Texas had remained outside of the US, would that have altered the course of events?

• If the US had not gone to war with Mexico, would the North and South have become so diatremically opposed to one another around one issue?