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Civil War

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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MORE DECKS TO EXPLORE

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1.

COMPROMISE OF 1850

  • 1850
  • Trying to find a way to get new states into the union
  • Who would get more powerful by having California
2.

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

  • 1850
  • Required northerners to help catch runaway slaves
  • Made northerners mad because they didn't want to have to support slavery
3.

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

  • 1852
  • Book humanized slaves
  • North got more feeling for slaves
4.

KANSAS-NEBRASKA

  • 1854
  • Vote to decide if states would be slave or free
  • Fights between north and south
5.

BLEEDING KANSAS

  • 1856
  • North wants Kansas to vote
  • No good solution to handle new states
6.

DRED SCOTT DECISION

  • 1857
  • African-Americans can't be American citizens
  • Angers abolitionists even more
7.

HARPER'S FERRY

  • 1859
  • Attempt at slave uprising fails John Brown is executed
  • North makes him a hero, south is angry and scared
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ELECTION OF 1860

  • 1860
  • States secede before Lincoln even officially takes office
  • Civil war close to ending

Blake Gaskins