Advanced Placement
United States
History
Chapter 19
Kennedy/Cohen/Bailey
The American Pageant
Lecture Outline
1
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - 1852
2
Stowe-Helper
Hinton R. Helper
The Impending Crisis
of the South - 1857
Domestic Impact of Stowe/Helper
Foreign Impact of Stowe/Helper
3
Bleeding Kansas
 New England Emigrant Aid Company
 1855 Territorial Elections in Kansas
 Border Ruffians (Missouri pro-slave)
Shawnee Mission Government
(pro-slave)
 Topeka Government
(free-soilers)
 John Brown - Pottawamie Creek, 1856
4
Brooks-Sumner Incident
B.
S.
Preston Brooks – Charles Sumner
May 22, 1856
5
Election of 1856
James
Buchanan
John C.
Fremont
Millard
Fillmore
Democrat
Republican
American
6
LeCompton Constitution - 1857
Dred Scott Decision - 1857
Stephen
Douglas
Dred
Scott
7
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
8
Raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859
“I am worth inconceivably more
to hang than for any other purpose.”
John Brown, December 2, 1859 9
John Sherman Incident
Republican
Candidate for
Speaker of the
House of
Representatives,
December 1859
Hinton Helper’s
The Impending Crisis
of the South
10
Election of 1860
Stephen A. Douglas
Northern Democrats
(Illinois)
John C. Breckinridge
Southern Democrats
(Kentucky)
11
Election of 1860
John Bell
Constitutional Union
(Tennessee)
Abraham Lincoln
Republicans
(Illinois)
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Cited:
Harriet Beecher Stowe 3 - http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/stowe.jpg
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/images/pic_uncletom_ad.jpg
Hinton Helper 1 - http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/prm/blhintonhelper1.htm
1857 - The Impending Crisis of the South
Brooks-Sumner Incident - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsumner2.jpg
Preston Brooks - http://www.jquinton.com/archives/000157.html
Charles Sumner - http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/images/sumner.jpg
James Buchanan 3 - http://www.memoriallibrary.com/CO/1898DenverPB/pics/pbrd0074.jpg
John C. Fremont 1 - http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/fremontoval.gif
Millard Fillmore 2 - http://www.memoriallibrary.com/CO/1898DenverPB/pics/pbrd0066.jpg
Stephen Douglas - http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/tindall/tinimage/bgstdoug.gif
Dred Scott - http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/gal/dred1.jpg
John Brown 2 - http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/7/brown1.jpg
Harpers Ferry 2 - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/hf-0115.jpg
Young Lincoln 1 - http://www.nps.gov/abli/hrs/images/fig5.jpg
Douglas 6 - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASdouglassS.jpg
John C. Breckinridge 2 - http://www.centre.edu/web/news/presdebate/breckinridge.jpg
John Bell - http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/Sw-SA/Bell.jpg
Lincoln - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a53000/3a53200/3a53289r.jpg
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