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The Compromise Crumbles: Slavery and the Path to Civil War

This overview explores key events leading to the American Civil War between 1852 and 1859. It highlights Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," which addressed the cruelty of slavery, and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which ignited territorial conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions, resulting in "Bleeding Kansas." Additionally, it examines the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which denied freedom to enslaved individuals and asserted that Congress could not restrict slavery in territories. The crescendo of tensions culminated in John Brown’s Raid in 1859, alarming the South.

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The Compromise Crumbles: Slavery and the Path to Civil War

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  1. COMPROMISE CRUMBLES 1852 1854 1857 1859

  2. 1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe: novel about cruelty of slavery

  3. 18__ U___ T___ C___ by H____ Beecher S____: novel about c____ of s____

  4. 1854 Kansas/Nebraska Act: these territories would decide: slave or free; Northerners and Southerners move to get Kansas under their control. Result: “Bleeding Kansas”; this act repealed the Missouri Compromise.

  5. 18__ K_____/N____ Act: these territories would decide: s___ or f___; Northerners and Southerners move to get Kansas under their control. Result: “B____ ______” this act repealed the ______ Compromise.

  6. 1857 Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott Case. Dred Scott a slave -- moved to free state & territory w/ master; took case to Supreme Ct. that he should be free. Sup. Ct. disagrees—slaves just property; Ct. also rules that Congress can’t ban slavery in any territory. South ecstatic; abolitionists angry

  7. 18__ S______ Court decision in D___ S___ Case. D___ Sc___ a slave who moved to f___ state & territory w/ m____; took his case to Supreme Ct. that he should be free. Sup. Ct. disagrees—slaves just p___; Ct. also rules that Congress can not ban slavery in any t____. South ecstatic.

  8. 1859 John Brown’s Raid on Armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia: Southerners alarmed by Brown’s attempt to arm slaves for revolt.

  9. 18__ J___ B____’s Raid on H____’s Ferry, Virginia: Southerners alarmed by Brown’s attempt to a___ slaves for r____.

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