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

• *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
• election results table