“Boiling Point”
Lighting the Fire
Uncle Tom’s Cabin -Harriet Beecher Stowe -Portrayed evils of slavery.
Kansas –Nebraska Act -Popular Sovereignty -”Bleeding Kansas” -Preston Brooks v. Charles Sumner
Dred Scot vs. Sanford
Scot is a slave moved to a free state Once in a free state, he sues for his freedom Supreme Court
Blacks are not citizens Cannot ban slavery
Lincoln Douglas Debates
1858 Senate Race
Stephen Douglas (Dem.) Abraham Lincoln (Rep.)
Debate over slavery
Freeport Doctrine
Douglas’ idea Slavery could be prevented from any territory by the refusal of the people to pass laws favorable to slavery
Douglas Wins
John Brown’s Raid
Extreme Abolitionist Raid Harper’s Ferry to gain arms for slave revolt Surrounded and captured Executed for his act Respected by abolitionists Source of distrust in the South
Election of 1860
Slavery key issue
4 party race -Lincoln (Rep) -Breckenridge (S. Dem) -Douglas (N. Dem) -Bell (Constitutional Union)
Lincoln Wins
No Southern Votes Confederacy forms before he takes office.