By Fabiola Rivera

An outline of American History

1854

Senior Senator from Illinois.He proposed the policy of «popular

sovereignity»

He was influential in the passage of the Compromise of 1850

Stephen A. Douglas

Political doctrine that allowed settlers of the U.S. federal

territories to decide whether to enter the Union as free or slave

states.

Series of measures passed by the U.S. Congress to settle slavery issues and

avert secession.

In 1854…Douglas’s bill proyected the organization of Kansas and Nebraska, and permited settlers to carried slaves into them.

- It was not accepted by northeners.- There were series of debates

about it.

The bill passed the Senate.

The Whig Party sank into its death.A powerful new organization arose:

«Bleeding Kansas»

The results…

The Republican

Party

Its primary demand was that slavery

should be excluded from all the territories

The figure of Abraham Lincoln

arose

A Missouri slave who was taken to Illinois and Missouri territory.

When he came back, Scott began suit for liberation.

The case of Dred Scott

The southern- dominated court decided that by voluntarily returning to a slave state, Scott had lost whatever tittle he

possessed to liberty and ruled that any attempt to Congress to prohibit slavery in the territory was invalid.

He had long regarded slavery as an evil.

According to him, al national legalization should be framed on the principle that slavery was an institution to be restricted and ultimately abolished.

«Popular sovereignty» principle was false. Slavery was a concern for the whole U.S.

He became a strong rival of S. Douglas for the Senate of Illinois.

Abraham Lincoln

In 1860 Presidential election

The Republican

Party

Abraham Lincoln

Proposals:• No more slavery.• Free homestead to

settlers.

WON THE ELECTION

The Confederate States of America

Government of 11 southern states that seceded from the Union.

- Lincoln refused to recognize the secession, considering “legally void.”

- He made a plea for restoration, but the south didn’t listen.

The Civil War

1861 - 1865

North

South

- 23 states- Pop. = 22 000 000- Facilitation of arms

and ammunition

- 11 states- 9 000 000- Well watered territory

The main theaters of action:- Mississippi Valley- The sea- Seaboard states.

«Gone with the wind»

In 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves and invited them to join the armed forces of the nation.

In 1865, end of the war. The North defeated the South.

Important Points

620, 000 deaths.

The south was devastated.

The Union was preserved.

Slavery as abolished.

The results