Events and Trends Leading to Civil War: Perceptions and RealitiesReminders:
Symbols:
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ANTI Slavery
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PRO Slavery
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Date |
Event or Trend |
Perceptions and Realities¾View
from the North and South and from PRO Slavery and ANTI Slavery Factions (Notice
they are not the same thing.) |
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1832 |
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Election: Andrew Jackson,
Democrat |
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1836-05 |
Texas Independence |
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1836 |
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Election: Martin Van Buren,
Democrat |
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1840s |
“Manifest destiny” |
What
is it? Where
are the targets: |
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1840 |
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Election: William Henry
Harrison, Whig, dies; John Tyler |
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1844-12 |
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Election: James K. Polk,
Democrat |
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1845-02 28 |
Texas, a state |
Tyler as lame duck |
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1845-03 04 |
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Polk
inaugural |
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1846-05 |
Mexican War starts |
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1846-06 |
Oregon dispute resolved |
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1846-08 |
Wilmot Proviso |
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<F |
1848-02 |
Mexican War ends |
US paid: $15M + $3M in
claims by US citizens. US got: AZ, CA, NV, and
UT from Mexico. US got: US-Mexico border
at Rio Grande. <F =
If _____________________________________________ and If______________________________________________ |
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1848-12 |
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Election: Zachary
Taylor, Whig died; Millard Fillmore |
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1849 |
California |
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1850-02 to 09 |
Compromise of 1850 |
Major player: Legislation in this package: |
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1852 |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Author? Why matter? |
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1852-12 |
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Election: Franklin Pierce,
Democrat |
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<F |
1853 |
Gadsden Purchase |
US paid: $10M. US gets: |
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<P |
1854-01 – 05 |
Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Major player: Why? Legislation: |
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1854-01 |
Revolt of factions starts Revolt results |
Northern Democrats Players:
Foundation of Republican Party = __________________________________________________ + __________________________________________________ + __________________________________________________ + |
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1854-04 |
Funding Free Soilers to
Kansas |
What’s the New England
Emigrant Aid Co.? |
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1854-10 |
Ostend Manifesto |
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1855-1856 |
“Bleeding Kansas” |
What are the unintended
consequences of the principle of popular sovereignty? Multiple attacks from both
directions:
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1856 |
Events in Senate chamber |
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1856-12 |
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Election: James Buchanan , Democrat |
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1857-03 |
Dred Scott case |
Ruling by Supreme Court (Roger Taney Court): |
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1857-10 -12 |
Fraud in another Kansas
election |
What does Douglas do? (Kansas not admitted until 1861, after secession) |
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1858 |
7 Lincoln-Douglas debates |
Senate contest in Illinois:
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P> |
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1859 |
Raid at Harpers Ferry, VA |
Who? Why? |
P> |
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1860-12 |
Election |
Election: Abraham Lincoln , Republican |
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1860-11 12 |
Secession crisis |
Secession - South Carolina
1st |
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1861-02 |
Another election |
Who is elected? What’s their Constitution? +6 more secede |
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1861-04 |
Fort Sumter |
What happened? Where? How does it appear? Post Fort Sumter:
11 total (VA, AR, TN, NC) Western Virginia—Refused
to secede; was separate state in 1863. |
Copyright C. J. Bibus,
Ed.D. 2003-2010 |
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