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The Civil War

This chapter explores critical pre-Civil War events that shaped America's conflict over slavery. It covers the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Nat Turner’s Rebellion of 1831, and the Compromise of 1850, including the impact of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin." The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which introduced popular sovereignty, led to violent clashes in "Bleeding Kansas." It also examines pivotal incidents like the Dred Scott Case and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, highlighting the mounting tensions that preceded secession.

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The Civil War

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  1. The Civil War Chapter 4

  2. I. Pre-Civil War Events A) The Missouri Compromise, 1820

  3. 1) Nat Turner’s Rebellion, 1831

  4. Map of the U.S. in 1848

  5. The Mexican War Ended - 1848 • America was ceded western territories. • This posed a problem: as these new territories would be admitted as states, would they be free or slave?

  6. B) Compromise of 1850

  7. 2) The Underground Railroad

  8. 3) Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852 • Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the evils of slavery. • Best seller had a huge impact on the way northerners viewed slavery.

  9. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 • Repealed the Missouri Compromise • Popular sovereignty states would get to decide whether they wanted to enter as free or slave states. • Fugitive Slave Act – made any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine. • Bleeding Kansas

  10. Charles Sumner • Pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner with a cane after Sumner had given a speech attacking pro-slavery forces for the violence in Kansas. • He accused South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler (Butler wasn’t present, Brooks was his nephew) of having “a mistress…who, though ugly to others is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight. I mean the harlot, Slavery.”

  11. D) Conflicts Lead to Secession 1) The Dred Scott Case, 1857 • Born a slave and taken by his master to a free portion of the Louisiana territory. • When his master died he argued he was entitled to freedom.

  12. Chief Justice Roger Taney

  13. 2) Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858 (Senate)

  14. 3) John Brown – Harpers Ferry, 1859 • Led a 21 man raid of the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. • He planned to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized

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