THE ROAD TO DISUNION

THE ROAD TO DISUNION

*Missouri Compromise

*Compromise of 1850

The Balance Between Non-Slave and Slave States

NON-SLAVE STATES	SLAVE STATES
Indiana(1816)	Mississippi(1817)
Illinois(1818)	Alabama(1819)
Maine(1820)	Missouri(1821)
Arkansas(1836)	Michigan(1837)
Florida(1845)	Iowa(1846)
Texas(1845)	Wisconsin(1848)

*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

Roger B. Taney

*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)
  - platform
    - popular sovereignty
- John Breckenridge(Southern Democrat)
  - platform
    - advocated the implementation of the Dred Scott decision
- John Bell(Constitutional Union)
  - platform
    - advocate of sectional compromise

1860 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Constituency	Bell	Breckenridge	Douglas	Lincoln	Total Votes
U.S.	592,906	848,356	1,382,713	1,865,593
Tennessee	69,671	64,940	11,354		145,965
Bradley	710(40.11%)	759(42.88%)	301(17.01%)	0	1770
McMinn	986	978	141	0	2105
Meigs	150	521(68.64%)	88	0	759
Monroe	915	1099	52	0	2066
Polk	396	825(64.25%)	63	0	1284
Rhea	289	386	24	0	699