I. South v. North
A. Importance of Cotton
B. Immigration and
Reaction
C. Growing Industrialization
D. Slavery
1. Attitude to labor and slavery in South
2. Fear of Slave Revolts and Nat Turner
3. Blacks in the South
a) Slave Codes
b) Free Blacks
4. Blacks in the North
II. Antislavery Movement
A. Time of Reform
1. Women in Movement
2. Sojourner Truth
B. American Colonization Society
C. Prominent Abolitionists
1. John Quincy Adams
2. David Walker Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)
3. Frederick Douglass
4. William Lloyd Garrison and the Anti-Slavery Society
5. Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman
III. Sectionalism
A. Sectionalism
B. Popular Sovereignty
C. Wilmot Proviso (1846)
D. Free Soil Party and Election of 1848
IV. The Compromise of 1850
A. The Problem
B. Calhoun and Webster
C. The Compromise
1. CA allowed to enter as a free state
2. NM and UT Territories decide issue with popular sovereignty
3. Texas got money to pay its debts
4. End slave trade in Washington, D.C.
5. New Fugitive Slave Law
D. Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
E. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
V. Problems and Kansas and Nebraska
A. Stephen Douglas
B. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
C. Bleeding Kansas (1856)
D. Violence in the Senate: Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks
VI. Politics
A. Formation of the Republican Party (1854)
B. 1856 Election
VII. Dred Scott Decision And Reaction (1857)
A. The Case
B. The Decision
C. Reaction
D. Lincoln Douglas Debates
(1858)
VIII. John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
IX. Election of 1860
A. The Candidates
1. Republican: Abraham Lincoln
2. Northern Democrats: Stephen Douglas
3. Southern Democrats: John C. Breckinridge
4. Constitutional Union Party: John Bell
B. Popular Vote
1. Lincoln 39.5%
2. Douglas 29.5%
3. Breckinridge 18%
4. Bell 13%
C. Electoral Vote
1. Lincoln 59%
2. Douglas 4%
3. Breckinridge 24%
4. Bell 13%
X. Secession
A. SC and Lower South Secede (SC,
GA, AL, MS, FL, LA and TX)
B. Fort Sumter (April 14, 1861)
C. Upper South Secedes (VA, AK, NC and TN)
XI. South v. North
A. Northern Advantages
B. Southern Advantages