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Sectionalism raises its head

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Assignment #11

Primary Caning of Senator Sumner 1856

Primary Southern defense of Sumner caning 1856

Primary Dred Scot decision 1857

Primary Lincoln Douglas debates 1858

Primary Lincoln's House divided speech 1858

Primary John Brown's final speech 1859

Primary Southern reaction to Lincoln's election 1860

Primary Lincoln's first inaugural address, 1861

 

Web 2nd: Irish Immigration

Web 2nd: John Brown video

Web 2nd:  The importance of Bleeding Kansas; Bleeding Kansas Background

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I.  Slavery and Expansion

A.     Wilmot Proviso

B.     Free Soil Party

C.     Emergence of sectionalism

 

II.  The Compromise of 1850

A.     CA - free state

B.     NM - popular sovereignty

C.     UT - popular sovereignty

D.     DC - slave trade abolished

E.      Fugitive Slave Act

 

Compromise of 1850

III.  Riots and Reactions

A.     Christiana, PA (1851), and other riots

B.     Anthony Burns (1854)

C.     Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852)

D.     Election of 1852 (Franklin Pierce)

 

IV.  Immigration

  1. Causes of immigration

  2. Experience of immigration

 

V.   Political Realignments

A.     Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

B.     Stephen A. Douglas

C.     Republican Party (est. 1854)

D.     American Party (Know Nothings)

E.      Bleeding Kansas (1856)

F.      John Brown

G.     Pottawatomie Massacre (1856)

 

The Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

VI.  The Triumph of Sectional Politics

A.     Dred Scott (1857)

B.     Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)

C.     Harpers Ferry (1859)

D.     Election of 1860
 

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