events leading to the civil war

Events Leading to Events Leading to the Civil Warthe Civil War

Between 1800 and 1850, what Between 1800 and 1850, what region developed an industrial region developed an industrial

economy based on economy based on manufacturing?manufacturing?

•The North

Which region favored Which region favored highhigh protective tariffs? protective tariffs?

•The NorthThe North

Define protective Define protective tariffs.tariffs.

• Taxes on imports which are so high that Americans cannot afford to buy foreign goods

What was the basis of the South’s economy?

•Agriculture (Farming)

•Plantations that used slave labor

Did the South support Did the South support or oppose high tariffs?or oppose high tariffs?

•OpposedOpposed

Why did the South Why did the South oppose high tariffs?oppose high tariffs?•Made manufactured Made manufactured goods more goods more expensiveexpensive

As the U.S. expanded As the U.S. expanded westward, what conflict westward, what conflict

threatened to tear the threatened to tear the country apart?country apart?

•SlaverySlavery

Define Define abolitionists.abolitionists.

• People who wanted to People who wanted to abolish (end) slavery abolish (end) slavery immediatelyimmediately

Who was one of the Who was one of the most important most important

abolitionistabolitionist leaders? leaders?

•William Lloyd William Lloyd GarrisonGarrison

What was the name of What was the name of the antislavery the antislavery

newspaper in Boston?newspaper in Boston?

•The Liberator

Who published The Liberator?

•William Lloyd William Lloyd GarrisonGarrison

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

•Harriet Beecher Harriet Beecher StoweStowe

Describe Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

•An antislavery novel

•Told the cruelties of slavery

How did UncleUncle Tom’s Cabin affect the North?

• Made Northern abolitionists mad

• Caused many more Northerners to support the Abolitionist movement

How did the Abolitionist movement

affect Southerners?

•Frightened them

What kind of rebellions did

Southerners fear?

•Slave Rebellions

Who was Gabriel Prosser?

• African-American slave

• Planned a slave revolt in Richmond, Va.

• Revolt crushed by Va. militia

• Prosser and 35 slaves were executed

Who was Nat Turner?

• An African-American slave

• Led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Va.

• Killed 55 whites

• 100+ blacks were killed

• Turner was captured and executed

What were two effects of Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

• Increased Southern fears of Slave Rebellions

• Southern states passed stricter slave codes

Who proposed the Missouri

Compromise?

•Henry Clay

What were the 3 parts of the Missouri

Compromise?

• Missouri became a slave state• Maine became a free state• Louisiana Territory was

divided at the 36 degree, 30 minute parallel; north of the line must be free territory; south of the line could be slave territory

How many U.S. senators does each

state have?

•Two

What balance did the What balance did the Missouri Compromise Missouri Compromise

maintain?maintain?

• Balance of power in Balance of power in SenateSenate between the between the NorthNorth and the and the SouthSouth

Who proposed the Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?Compromise of 1850?

•Henry ClayHenry Clay

Who have historians called the “Great Compromiser”?

•Henry Clay

What were the key points of the Compromise of

1850?

• California became a free state

• Stronger fugitive slave law

• Abolished the slave trade, but not slavery itself, in the District of Columbia

• Created the Utah and New Mexico territories; decide slavery by popular sovereignty

What did the new What did the new Fugitive Slave Fugitive Slave

Act do?Act do?

• Made it easier for slave Made it easier for slave catchers to capture and catchers to capture and return runaway slaves return runaway slaves

• Required escaped slaves Required escaped slaves to be forcibly returned to to be forcibly returned to their owners in the Souththeir owners in the South

Who hated the Who hated the Fugitive Slave Act?Fugitive Slave Act?

•NorthernersNortherners

What was popular sovereignty?

• The people of a territory would decide whether they wanted slavery

Who proposed the Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Kansas-Nebraska

Act?Act?

•Stephen Douglas, Stephen Douglas, Democrat (Illinois)Democrat (Illinois)

What is a bill?What is a bill?

•A proposed lawA proposed law

What is an act?What is an act?

•A Law

Identify the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

• Said popular sovereignty would decide slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

• Since both Kansas and Nebraska were north of the Missouri Compromise line, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise

What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Missouri Compromise?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.

What broke out in the Kansas Territory?

• Civil war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers

What adjective was used to describe Kansas in the

mid-1850s?

•Bleeding Kansas

What political party was formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska

Act?

• The Republican Party

What were the two major results of the

Kansas-Nebraska Act?

•Bleeding KansasBleeding Kansas

•Republican PartyRepublican Party

What was the Supreme Court’s

decision in the Dred Scott case?

• Since Dred Scott was a slave, he could not sue in federal court

• African-Americans were not citizens of the United States

• Since Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

What did the Dred Scott decision say about the

Missouri Compromise?

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What power did the Supreme Court use in Dred

Scott v. Sandford?

•The power of judicial review

In Dred Scott v. Sandford did the Supreme Court rule that Scott should

remain a slave or gain his freedom?

•Remain a slave

Which section liked the Dred Scott decision, the

North or the South?

•The South

Which group(s) liked the Dred Scott decision?

• Abolitionists?

• Republicans?

• Slaves?

• Slaveholders?

Slaveholders

Who ran for the U.S. Who ran for the U.S. Senate against Stephen Senate against Stephen

Douglas in 1858?Douglas in 1858?

•Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln

In the Lincoln-Douglas In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who supported debates who supported popular sovereignty?popular sovereignty?

•Stephen Douglas

In the Lincoln-Douglas In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who said, “A debates who said, “A

house divided against itself house divided against itself cannot stand”?cannot stand”?

•Abraham Lincoln

In the Lincoln-Douglas In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who said the U.S. debates who said the U.S.

could could notnot continue continue half-free and half-slave?half-free and half-slave?

•Abraham Lincoln

Who won the 1858 Senate election in

Illinois?

•Stephen Douglas

In the 1850s what was In the 1850s what was the North increasingly the North increasingly

against?against?

•The Spread of Slavery to the West

By the end of the 1850s, what By the end of the 1850s, what did Southerners argue states did Southerners argue states

could do?could do?

• States could nullify laws passed by Congress

• States could secede from the Union

What did it mean for a What did it mean for a state to state to nullifynullify a law? a law?

•Void it

•Do Away with it

What did it mean for a state to secede?

•Leave the UnionLeave the Union

Who gave the “House Divided” speech in the

1858 Illinois Senate election campaign?

•Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln