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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 A Dividing Nation: A Dividing Nation: Conflict Compromise 1861 1850 The Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act Uncle Tom's Cabin Bleeding Kansas John Brown's raid Election of 1860 South Carolina Secedes 1853 1854 1857 1859 1860 The Compromise of 1850 settled and abolished slave trade betweenthe North and South but allowed existing slaveholders in Washington, D.C to keep their slaves. The Compromise admitted California into Union as a free state,which pleased the North.It divided the rest of the Southwestinto two territories-New Mexico and Utah and opened both to slavery, which pleased the South. The Compromise made both the North and South happy. The Uncle Tom's Cabin became a conflict between the sections.The novel explained the truth behind slavery and described the pain and suffering slaves experienced.The book increased violence and hostility between slaves and slave-owners and of many Northernerstowards the South inspired by the book, Southerners hoped to bring slavery to peace but the North took the book to be insulting. The Bleeding Kansas became a conflict between the sections. The novel explained the truth behind slaveryand described the pain and suffering slaves experienced.The book increased violence and hostility between slaves and slave-owners and of many Northerners towards the South inspired by the book, Southerners hoped to bring slavery to peace but the North took thebook to be insulting. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlement in the territories of Kansasand Nebraska. The act didn’t exclude slavery nor expand it into any Territory or State. White settlers decided whether or not to allow slavery in their borders. The act allowed white settlers whether from the South or North to decide their own way living with or without slaves. Dred Scott Decision Dred Scott Decision brought conflict between the rights of slaves and the Supreme Court. The court denied Dred Scott asa citizen but the property of a man. Boththe North and South thought differently. The North believed that all men were created equal but the South saw slaves as property and not men. The Courtsdecision to open all territories to slavery when the North didn’t agree caused a conflict. John Brown planned the raid to start an armed slave riot to end slavery. By leading a small group on a raid to Harpers Ferry it started up a battle of treason. John Brown group attacked a federal army arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The Southerners feared that James Brown raid would start a slave rebellion and Northerners saw Brown as a hero and a representative of the antislavery movement. The raid led to the Civil War, a fight between proslavery and antislavery protestors. The South Carolina secede is a conflict between the Southern States and a Republican president in the White House.After Abraham Lincoln won presidency,Southerners feared Congress would end slavery. South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union and after the next several weeks, six more Southern states pulled out. Together they formed the Confederation States of America, with Jefferson Davis as president. By pulling out from the nation and forming a Union, it separated the South from the North. The United States wasn’tunited but separated as different Unions between antislavery and proslavery due to the fear of ending slavery in the South. The Election of 1860 split the Nation and drove a separation between the North and South. The Democratic Party split into northern and southernfactions, competing for their opinion on slavery. The Southern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas who lacked popular sovereignty. Abraham Lincoln was nominee against Stephen Douglas by the Northerners, who refused the extension of slavery to the western territories. Southern Democrats also picked John C. Breckwho wanted slavery allowed in all territories. This was a divisive issueof slavery because the South nominated a person who agreed with slavery and the North nominated a person who was antislavery.
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