logging in or signing up newrepublicanpartybi rth Carolina Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 86 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: February 15, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Birth of the Republican Party: Birth of the Republican Party New Party Emerges: New Party Emerges Anti-slavery cause angry over Kansas-Nebraska Act Parties divide (Dem, Whig, Free-Soil) Former Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Democrats formed the Republican PartyWhy “Republicans?”: Why “Republicans?” Name of Jefferson’s party “Spirit of the Revolution” Feared southern planter aristocracy controlling federal governmentDecline of Whigs & Know-Nothings: Decline of Whigs & Know-Nothings Kansas-Nebraska Act splits Whigs and Know-Nothings into North and South Republican party absorbed northern Know-NothingsDred Scott Decision: Dred Scott Decision Dred Scott Slave in free territory Sued to end his slaveryThe Ruling: The Ruling Chief Justice Roger B. Taney “Slaves are not citizens” No right to sue in court Kansas-Nebraska Act was unconstitutional – judicial reviewLincoln Makes His Name: Lincoln Makes His Name 1858 – Lincoln ran vs. Dem. Stephen A. Douglas (IL) Series of debates established Lincoln as man of clear, insightful thinking Not an abolitionist, but believed slavery to be morally wrong and not to be spreadLoses Election, Gains Fame: Loses Election, Gains Fame Lincoln loses election to popular sovereignty Stephen Douglas Makes a name for himself.John Brown: John Brown Passionate abolitionist, “that God raised up to break the jaws of the wicked” Planned slave revolt in West VirginiaThe Plan: The Plan Seize U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry Free and arm slaves of WV Start an insurrection against all southern slaveholdersNot to Plan: Not to Plan Brown and 18 others took the arsenal Encountered U.S. Marines outside the building, led by Robert E. Lee Arrested, tried, and executed BrownFamous Last Words: Famous Last Words “I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had as I now think vainly flattered myself what without very much bloodshed it might be done.”Execution of John Brown: Execution of John BrownNorthern/Southern Reaction: Northern/Southern Reaction N – Saw Brown as a martyr, dying for noble cause S – Saw North as trying to murder all southern slave-owners “Defend yourselves. The enemy is at your door.” – Robert Toombs (GA) You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
newrepublicanpartybi rth Carolina Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 86 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: February 15, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Birth of the Republican Party: Birth of the Republican Party New Party Emerges: New Party Emerges Anti-slavery cause angry over Kansas-Nebraska Act Parties divide (Dem, Whig, Free-Soil) Former Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Democrats formed the Republican PartyWhy “Republicans?”: Why “Republicans?” Name of Jefferson’s party “Spirit of the Revolution” Feared southern planter aristocracy controlling federal governmentDecline of Whigs & Know-Nothings: Decline of Whigs & Know-Nothings Kansas-Nebraska Act splits Whigs and Know-Nothings into North and South Republican party absorbed northern Know-NothingsDred Scott Decision: Dred Scott Decision Dred Scott Slave in free territory Sued to end his slaveryThe Ruling: The Ruling Chief Justice Roger B. Taney “Slaves are not citizens” No right to sue in court Kansas-Nebraska Act was unconstitutional – judicial reviewLincoln Makes His Name: Lincoln Makes His Name 1858 – Lincoln ran vs. Dem. Stephen A. Douglas (IL) Series of debates established Lincoln as man of clear, insightful thinking Not an abolitionist, but believed slavery to be morally wrong and not to be spreadLoses Election, Gains Fame: Loses Election, Gains Fame Lincoln loses election to popular sovereignty Stephen Douglas Makes a name for himself.John Brown: John Brown Passionate abolitionist, “that God raised up to break the jaws of the wicked” Planned slave revolt in West VirginiaThe Plan: The Plan Seize U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry Free and arm slaves of WV Start an insurrection against all southern slaveholdersNot to Plan: Not to Plan Brown and 18 others took the arsenal Encountered U.S. Marines outside the building, led by Robert E. Lee Arrested, tried, and executed BrownFamous Last Words: Famous Last Words “I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had as I now think vainly flattered myself what without very much bloodshed it might be done.”Execution of John Brown: Execution of John BrownNorthern/Southern Reaction: Northern/Southern Reaction N – Saw Brown as a martyr, dying for noble cause S – Saw North as trying to murder all southern slave-owners “Defend yourselves. The enemy is at your door.” – Robert Toombs (GA)