From Compromise to Conflict:The Crisis Unfolds

TCI’s History Alive!

COMPROMISE OF 1850• California admitted as a free state (NORTH)• New Mexico & Utah territories opened to slavery

(SOUTH)• slave trade banned in Washington, D.C. (NORTH)• strict Fugitive Slave Act adopted (SOUTH)

DRED SCOTT v. SANDFORD (1857) DECISION

• African-Americans are not citizens, but property protected by the 5th Amendment

• Dred Scott remains a slave under Missouri law• Congress cannot ban slavery in any territory• the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional

the election of Abraham Lincoln↓

Southern Secession

Abraham Lincoln’s refusal toaccept Southern Secession

↓the Civil War

“preserve the Union”