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Fellow Citizens...


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We Cannot Escape...


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...History

-Abraham Lincoln


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Every Event has a Cause and Consequence


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Do you Remember this Compromise?


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The Compromise of 1850

Maintains the Balance of Power

SlaveFree


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Kansas Nebraska Act

Tips the Scales toward Slave States

Via Popular Sovereignty

Cause


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Angers NorthernPoliticians...


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...And Citizens Alike

Consequence

Massacre at Pottawatomie Creek


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Because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Kansas Becomes a Slave Territory

Consequence

Lecompton Constitution


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ConsequenceNecessitates

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Realignment

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Pro Slavery Voters Rig Election

Kansas Becomes a Slave Territory

Cause

Lecompton Constitution


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Cause

Dred Scott

A Slave Sued for His FreedomA Slave Sued for His Freedom


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Chief Justice RogerTaney

Rules AgainstHim Stating...


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[Slaves] are beings of an inferior order


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So far inferior that they had norights which the white man wasbound to respect


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Determines that the Missouri

Compromise is Unconstitutional

Barring Slavery Deprives Citizens of their

Property

Without Due Process

In violation of the 5th Amendment


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The Rise of Abraham Lincoln

Cause


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Senate Election of 1858

Lincoln Challenges Stephen Douglas

To a Series ofDebates...


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The Debates

Put Slavery in Sharp Focus

As a Moral Issue

Cause


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DemocratRepublican

Slavery is Political

Slavery is Moral

Long Time Politician

New To Politics

1858

Lincoln Loses Senate Race....

But is in the Political Spotlight


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A Vigilante Abolitionist Named

John Brown

Creates a PlanT

o Attack HarpersFerry


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His Goal...

Was To Create a Slave Uprising


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He Captures Harpers Ferry...

But the Slaves Never Come


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John Brown is Captured

And Sentenced to Die

To Some, as a Martyr


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It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by whitemen to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves

refused to participate.

It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by whitemen to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves

refused to participate.

Harpers FerryReadies the

South for a Fight

Consequence


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The Democratic

Party Meets in

Charleston

SomeD

elegatesW

alk Out...


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They Meet Againlater in Baltimore

There is a Rift between North and

South Delegates


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Northern Democrats Southern Democrats

Stephen Douglas John C. Breckinridge

Nominees


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Republican Party Candidates

Vs.

Lincoln Seward


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LincolnWins

Republican

Nomination...


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Because the Nation is Torn...

Lincoln Wins the Presidency

with only 40% of the Vote


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ecessioConsequence


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December20,

1860South Carolina Meets to ConsiderSecession

They Vote Unanimously in Favor


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February 1,1861MississippiFlorida

Alabama

Georgia

Louisiana

Texas

Also Secede


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Together they Form the

The Confederate States of America

[Slavery] was the immediate cause of the late

rupture and present revolution. Our newgovernments foundations are laid...upon the greattruth that the negro is not equal to the white man


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Jefferson Davis is Sworn in as

President of the CSA

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