| A. | The relationship between economic conditions and realities with ideologies, or world views, in each region by the 1850s | ||
| B. | Northern idea of "free labor" and its relationship to the antislavery position | ||
| 1. | Belief in capitalism, industry, individual initiative | ||
| 2. | Slavery as a threat to free, white laborers, as well as dehumanizing to blacks | ||
| 3. | Expansive northern economy depends on free labor | ||
| 4. | Slavery must be kept out of territories to allow free labor to expand | ||
| C. | Southern proslavery argument (or slavery as a positive commodity) | ||
| 1. | Description of paternalistic aspects of slavery | ||
| 2. | Comparison of slavery to free labor | ||
| 3. | Criticism of irregularities of northern economy | ||
| D. | How these two world views (free labor versus proslavery) were related to the politics of the 1850s, and became motivating factors for behavior and argumentation between the two regions | ||
| 1. | Southern attack on northern institutions: | ||
| a. | George Fitzhugh | ||
| b. | James Henry Hammond | ||
| 2. | Northern attack on slaveholding South | ||
| a. | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| b. | William Seward | ||
| 3. | Instances of conflict | ||
| a. | "Bleeding Kansas" | ||
| b. | Dred Scott decision | ||
| c. | Harpers Ferry | ||
| A. | Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) | |
| 1. | Southern fear of being surrounded by free states | |
| 2. | Role of Stephen Douglas | |
| 3. | Repeal of Missouri Compromise | |
| 4. | Breakdown of Whig Party and national politics | |
| B. | Rise of alternative political parties | |
| 1. | Know-Nothing Party | |
| 2. | Republican Party and Free Soilers | |
| C. | Political breakdown in the mid- 1850s | |
| 1. | "Bleeding Kansas" | |
| 2. | Lecompton Constitution | |
| 3. | Dred Scott decision | |
| 4. | Harpers Ferry | |
| D. | Repercussions | |
| 1. | Development of sectional parties | |
| 2. | Regional mistrust and threats of secession (1856) | |
| A. | Setting for the debates | |
| 1. | Illinois senatorial election of 1858 | |
| 2. | Backgrounds of Lincoln and Douglas | |
| B. | Issues debated | |
| 1. | Douglas's views on slavery¾morally neutral | |
| 2. | Douglas as defender of the Constitution and popular sovereignty | |
| 3. | Lincoln on "free soil" and inhumanity of slavery | |
| 4. | Lincoln's "house divided" speech | |
| C. | Outcome | |
| 1. | National attention on debates | |
| 2. | Douglas wins election, but alienates southern wing of Democratic Party | |
| 3. | Lincoln emerges as major political figure | |
| A. | Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| 1. | Provisions | ||
| a. | Organization of the territories | ||
| b. | Repeal of Missouri Compromise | ||
| c. | Popular sovereignty | ||
| 2. | Douglas's motives | ||
| a. | Southern support for presidency | ||
| b. | Real estate holdings | ||
| c. | Belief in expansion | ||
| 3. | Political consequences | ||
| a. | Destruction of Whig Party | ||
| b. | Creation of Republican Party | ||
| B. | "Bleeding Kansas" | ||
| 1. | Migration to Kansas | ||
| a. | Proslavery settlers | ||
| b. | Antislavery settlers | ||
| 2. | Territorial elections | ||
| a. | Fraudulent proslavery election | ||
| b. | Free-soil election | ||
| 3. | Violence | ||
| a. | Caning of Sumner | ||
| b. | Sacking of Lawrence | ||
| c. | John Brown' s raid on Pottawatomie | ||
| d. | Military rule | ||
| C. | Lecompton Constitution | ||
| 1. | Proslavery constitutional convention | ||
| a. | Rigged elections | ||
| b. | "Fair" referendum | ||
| 2. | Free-Soil Constitution | ||
| a. | Fair election | ||
| b. | Voters reject both constitutions | ||
| 3. | Congressional debate | ||
| a. | Senate votes yes | ||
| b. | House votes no | ||
| c. | Southerners and Douglas at odds | ||