THE ROAD TO DISUNION
*Missouri Compromise
*Compromise of 1850
Balance
of non-slave and slave states
*Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- abolition
- *William Lloyd Garrison
- *Frederick Douglass
- *Underground Railroad
*Ostend Manfesto(1853)
*Kansas-Nebraska Act(1854)
- *Stephen Douglas
- popular sovereignty
- consequences
- civil war in Kansas Territory
- sack of Lawrence, Kansas by proslavery
forces(21 May 1856)
- *Lecompton
constitution
- formation of the Republican Party
- Preston Brooks' caning of Charles
Sumner(22 May 1856)
- provocation - Sumner's "Crime
against Kansas" speech
- In this speech Sumner...
- denounced the Kansas-Nebraska
Act
- insulted the sponsors of this
act
- Andrew Butler - Brooks'
uncle
- Stephen Douglas
*Dred Scott
*John Brown
- Harpers Ferry
- *Nat Turner
- 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia
1860 presidential election
- candidates:
- Abraham Lincoln(Republican)
- platform
- no slavery in the western territories
- Stephen Douglas(Northern Democrat)
- John Breckenridge(Southern Democrat)
- platform
- advocated the implementation of the Dred Scott decision
- John Bell(Constitutional Union)
- platform
- advocate of sectional compromise
- election
results table