From Compromise to Secession, 1850-1861

Chapter 14

Sectionalism The Compromise of 1850

Popular Sovereignty

Zachary Taylor

Henry Clay

The Fugitive Slave Act

Sectionalism Winfield Scott

Franklin Pierce

The Second Party System

New issues

The extension of slavery

Sectionalism The Kansas-Nebraska

Act

Stephen Douglas

Repealing the Missouri Compromise

Popular sovereignty

Kansas

Sectionalism The reaction to

the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Free Soil

The extension of slavery into the west

Sectional Conflicts Manifest Destiny

Cuba

1854

The Ostend Manifesto

Sectional Conflict Southern Whigs

Northern Whigs

The Know Nothings

The Order of the Star Spangled Banner

Slave Power

Sectional Conflict

The Republican Party

Who were the Republicans?

Free Soil

Sectional Conflict “Bleeding Kansas”

Popular Sovereignty

Pro-slavery Missourians

The Lecompton Legislature

Topeka

President Pierce’s reaction

Sectionalism Charles Sumner

Andrew Butler

Accusations

Preston Brooks

“a new southern hero”

Sectional Conflict The Election of

1856

John C. Fremont

James Buchanan

Millard Fillmore

Results of the election

Sectionalism Dred Scott V

Sanford

The ruling the Supreme Court

The Missouri Compromise

The reaction of Republicans

Sectionalism The Lecompton

Constitution

Buchanan

Stephen Douglas

Splitting the Democrats

Sectionalism The Lincoln-

Douglas Debates

Free Soil

The Freeport Doctrine

The Dred Scott Decision

Sectional Divide John Brown

Harper’s Ferry, VA

New Fears

The Abolitionist View

The Southern View

Secession Secession

The Election of 1860

The Republican Platform

Splitting the Democrats

The Results

Secession The Deep South

December 1860

The Confederate States of America

The Upper South

Secession John Crittenden

The Crittenden Plan

Lincoln’s response to Crittenden

Fort Sumter

Lincoln’s reaction to Fort Sumter

The Upper south secedes