Opening March 11th

1. Copy Down Homework

2. Get out Harriet Beecher Stowe HW

3. Copy Table of Contents

Current Events

TOC: Road to the Civil Road 1.History Investigation2.The first cracks3.HW Summary

Questions4.Abolitionists Notes 5.Compromise of 1850

History Alive Reading 6. Comp of 1850 HW

reading 7.5 point Compromise8.Fugitive Slave Act

Notes9.Straws Timeline (Big

Sheet of Paper)10.Final Straw #3: Uncle

Tom’s Cabin11.Notes on Straws #4

and #5

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Effect in the North and South

Sells 300,000 in the first yr; 2 million in the the 1850s (In the North and the South)

South: Moral Outrage : fiction, made up…. Someone send’s

Stowe a slave ear Write their own

literature to respond

“Foul imagination which could invent such scenes”

- Louisa McCord (famous Southern Writer)

“...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Empathy• The ability to

understand and share the feelings of another

• Melodrama- • A dramatic piece

with exaggerated characters and exciting events• EX. The

Notebook

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Impact Continued… "So you are the

little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!”

1862: Lincoln meets Harriet Stowe in the White House

Opening March 12th

1. Copy Down Homework

2. Get out Straw notes from yesterday

3. Copy Table of Contents

Current Events

TOC: Road to the Civil Road 1.History Investigation2.The first cracks3.HW Summary

Questions4.Abolitionists Notes 5.Compromise of 1850

History Alive Reading 6. Comp of 1850 HW

reading 7.5 point Compromise8.Fugitive Slave Act

Notes9.Straws Timeline (Big

Sheet of Paper)10.Final Straw #3: Uncle

Tom’s Cabin11.Notes on Straws #4

and #5

Kansas Nebraska Act: 1854Proposal and Bill

Stephen Douglas needs a railroad in the North Western Territory (Kansas)

Makes a deal with Southern Democrats Popular Sovereignty-

people decide the free/slave state

Agreement NULLIFIES (cancels) the Missouri Comp

Kansas-Nebraska Act: Effects

Pro-slavery settlers (FROM MISSOURI) vote in Kansas elections Voter fraud -illegal

interference with the process of an election

Pro-Slavery government set up in TOPEKA (not recognized by the US )

Abolitionist set up EMIGRANT AID COMPANY and set up headquarters in LAWRENCE

Two opposing groups set up 30 miles From each other!

The Offenses Against Slave Property Act "Decoying" any slave away from his owner punishable by death.

Aiding or assisting decoying a slave punishable by death.

Bringing decoyed slaves into Kansas Territory from any other state or territory punishable by death.

Raising a rebellion or insurrection among slaves, free negroes or mulattoes punishable by death.

Aiding or assisting in any such rebellion or insurrection punishable by death.

Resisting any officer attempting to arrest a slave punishable by two years at hard labor.

Printing or publishing any book, pamphlet, etc. calculated to produce "dangerous disaffection" among slaves punishable by five years at hard labor.

Speaking or writing that "persons have not the right to hold slaves in this Territory" punishable by two years at hard labor. [1855 Statutes, Chapter 151]

In other statutes, the Bogus

Legislature: Required an oath from every officer, elected or appointed, to support the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law. [1855 Statutes, 438]

Disqualified any person opposed to slavery as a juror. [1855 Statutes, 377, 378]

Required an oath from every attorney to support the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law. [1855 Statutes, 118]

Made homicide excusable when correcting a slave Made petit larceny and misdemeanors committed by slaves

punishable by whipping. [1855 Statutes, 252 ff] Disallowed the writ of habeas corpus to slaves charged with

crimes. [1855 Statutes, 345] Made wearing ball and chain mandatory for all prisoners serving

hard labor sentences. [1855 Statutes, 146]

Reaction from the Lawrence

Lawrence Kansas TribuneSeptember 15, 1855Editor John Speer defied the Bogus Legislature by directly violating the "Gag Law" in its exact words.

Bleeding Kansas Free-soilers (anti-blacks) –

request weapons to defend themselves Beecher’s Bibles

Sack of Lawrence 800 Pro-Slavery activist burn

and plunder Destroy the printing press

Pottawatomie Massacre John Brown & 4 sons and 3

others Broad sword and murder of 5

Pro Slavery Men

The Lawrence, Kansas Raid as illustrated in Harper's Weekly, September, 1863.

Violence in the Senate: May 22 1856

Senator Charles Sumner delivers speech “Crimes Against Kansas” Insults SC senator

Andrew Pickens Butler

Nephew Rep. Preston Brooks has to avenge is Uncle Canes Sen. Sumner till

he becomes unconscious

Sen. Charles Sumner

Sen. Andrew Pickens Butler

RepresentativePreston Brooks

Reaction to the Caning

End of an era of compromise and

Southerners send more canes!

Northerners Outraged:

“illustration of southern spirit