Homework 39: The Road to War
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- Mass Emigrant Aid Society
- founded to recruit free-soil settles for kansas
- David Atchison
- missori senator who pledged to extend the institutions of missouri over territor at by whatever sacrifice in blood and treasure
- Beecher's bibles
- Yale minister hands out 24 bibles and 25 rifles to young men to fight in kansas
- John Brown
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1859- crazy guy goes down to virginia with 22 men to start insurrection of slaves
lost
executed
seen as a marty, "angel of light"
implication: pissed of southerners- inspired northerners - Preston Brooks
- beat abolishionist Sumner with his cane, avenging the offensie sumner did to brook's uncle, Butler, and friend, Atchinson
- Bleeding Kansas
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minor civil war; the sack of Lawrence, massacre at Pottawatomie Creek, canning of Sumner
crops burned, homes destroyed, public fights, night raiders - Northern values(after/around Bleeding Kansas)
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-induvidualism
-democracy
-economic growth
-morality (calvinist protestanism
-education
-republican gov. guarntees rights
-strong union
-freedom - Southern Values (after/around Bleeding Kansas)
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-social values: English gentry; courteous, chivalrous, honorable
-millitaristic (as a result of fear of slave revolt)
-planters genteel code
-beleived in local political units
-preferred loose confederacy - Dred Scott
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(1857)
Dred and Harriet Scott argued that their master had taken them north, into Minnesota etc., where miss comp outlawed slavery
7-2 desicion (southern majority) said
1. slaves dont have same rights
2.miss comp unconstitutional- congress has no power to ban slavery in territory
3. takin them in and out did not affect status
implications: infuriated northerners- hinted that slavery might be legal in north - Lecompton Constition
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(1857) constitution written up for kansass by slave-holders, clearly corrupt
pres Buchanan supports (dem), wanting southern support
douglas does not support it
is sent back for referendum
is rejected- kansas does not become state - Illinois debates
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Lincoln (rep) v. Douglas (dem)
Douglas thought of as northern dem hero- undermined republicans
Lincoln- challened Seward for republican control
debates a preview to presidential elections
lincoln undermines douglas morally- remains contemporary and racist
defineted dems as supporting slavery- made douglas look wishywashy - dems in 1860
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dems in eleciton of 1860:
-spent 10 days in SC- couldnt pick candidate
-chose two candidates:
douglas for norther dems
Breckinridge for southern dems - constitutional union party
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election of 1860
border state people former southern whigs/nativits, elected Bell (slave holder from tennesse) as compromise - republican platform of 1860
- moderate platform, won
- December 20, 1860
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South Carolina secedes
by Feb 1st- so had mississippi, florida, alabama, georgia, louisiana, and texas - three options of north
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1. make concessions
2. let them go
3. bring em back - the border states desicion
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northerners hope southern unionism will win over border states
buchanan did nothing - fort sumter
- lincoln sends relief to fed fort in SC
- beauregard
- general of confederate army at sumpter