Key Dates
April 12, 1861
Battle of Ft. Sumter
Ft. Sumter attacked a month after...
Abraham Lincoln became president
A house divided against itself _______________.
"cannot stand."
(Lincoln, 1858 Nomination)
Compromise of 1850
South Carolina
First to secede
Abe Lincoln's Inauguration
He signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Franklin Pierce
The chorus of Union will swell if touched by...
"the better angels of our nature"
(Lincoln, 1861 Inauguration)
Status of slave (or free) decided based on "summary manner" (no due process)
Fugitive Slave Law
GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX
Seceded from Union BEFORE Lincoln's inauguration
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
He signed the Compromise of 1850
Millard Fillmore
The crimes of this country will be purged away with ________.
"blood"
(John Brown, Last Words)
Dred Scott Case
VA, NC, TN, AK
Seceded from Union after Ft. Sumter battle
1858
Lincoln runs for senator
Dred Scott Case decided 5 days later after...
James Buchanan became president
Our government cannot endure half _________________.
"half slave and half free"
(Lincoln, 1858 Nomination)
Slave or free state based on popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slave states that did NOT secede
1857
Dred Scott Case
He objected to the Compromise of 1850
Zachary Taylor
... that government ________________ shall not perish from the earth
"of the people, by the people, for the people"
(Lincoln, 1863 Gettysburg Address)
Protected slavery where it already existed
Corwin Amendment
What state seceded from Virginia?
West Virginia