Making Extremists – Sectional Tensions and Causes of the American Civil War
The North - Abolitionists – Free Soilers		The South - Fire-Eaters – Apologists
	John C. Calhoun’s lyceum – Positive-Good Theory	Creates the Solid South
Enlightens Northerners to the abuses of slavery (propaganda)	abolitionist rhetoric/ slave power conspiracy	Offends Southern culture
conformation of the slave power conspiracy	Ostend Manifesto – call for expansion into the Caribbean	Right to expansion into Caribbean – White supremacy
awareness	The Liberator/William Lloyd Garrison	Insult to Southern culture
awareness	North Star/Frederick Douglass	Insult to Southern culture
awareness	Uncle Tom's Cabin/Harriet Beecher Stowe	Insult to Southern culture
See they are barbarians	Lovejoy murdered - First white man killed over slavery issue	See, this is what happens if you try to seal our property
	Amistead Case/slave trade in D.C.	They are stealing our property
We have a right to debate anything	Congressional gag rule	We are tired of hearing the insults
Southern conspiracy to expand slavery via an unjust war	Mexican War	It is our Manifest Destiny
The west is an opportunity for white men/free soil doctrine begins	Manifest Destiny	We have a right to take our property with us
Fear that slavery might expand west	Mexican Cession	Opportunity for expansion
First free soil statement	Wilmot Proviso	See, we must never lose the senatorial balance
Repeal the Congressional gag rule – force a debate on free soil	Taylor and free soil/Taylor's death/Fillmore no leader	Taylor betrayed us/never trust a (Cotton) Whig
Kidnapping of runaway slaves	Fugitive Slave Act (1797)	Our right under federal law
Undermining an unjust law via State law	personal liberty laws –granting citizenship to run-a-way slaves	Abolitionist are stealing our property ignoring federal law
Supreme Court should be ignored	Prigg vs. Pennsylvania	Fugitive slave law is just/constitutional
New Fugitive Slave Law unacceptable	Compromise of 1850	California statehood unacceptable
	California/senatorial balance	Lost the senatorial balance
Unacceptable law/must be nullified	New Fugitive Slave Act (1850)	Compromise for losing senatorial balance (not enough)
	Nashville Convention – Southern unity expressed	First talk of secession/voted down for now
Popular sovereignty unacceptable	transcontinental railroad/Kansas-Nebraska Act – popular sovereignty enunciated	Opportunity to expand slavery – trade northern railroad route for opportunity to expand slavery west
Beecher’s Bibles - violence	"Bleeding Kansas"	Fraud elections - violence
Southerners will murder abolitionists	Lawrence massacre	Driving off the Jayhawkers
	Pottawatomie massacre	Abolitionists will murder Southern whites
Primitive/barbarian Southern culture	Brooks attacks Sumner	Honor and justice
Supreme Court must be ignored	Dred Scott Decision	Justice/law enforced
John Brown is wrong but we understand (Northern apologists)	John Brown's Raid on Harpers' Ferry/execution	All northerners are secret abolitionists
A purely Sectional candidate (Lincoln) wins	Election of 1860	“black” Republican elected/secession talks
An act of treason	secession of South Carolina/lower South	Our right as “States”
Unacceptable/we won the election/no expansion of slavery	Crittenden compromise/Missouri Compromise revisited	Will accept limited expansion
They attacked us	Ft. Sumter/upper South secedes	War for independence is the only answer