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Ch.5 Secession and Resistance
• By Matthew Pippin
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Important facts about North and South
• South• Farming economy based
on cotton.• Cotton production based
around slavery• Manufactured very little
and imported much so opposed high tariffs.
• No need for strong Gov. and feared it would interfere with slavery.
• North.• Industrial economy • Factories needed labor
but not slave labor• Wanted high tariffs to
protect products from competition
• Needed central Gov. to build roads and railways to protect trading interest.
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Law passed in 1820 stating that Missouri would enter union as slave state and Maine
as a free state• Missouri Compromise• Stated that southern
boundary of Missouri would be the dividing line for new states entering the Union
• Line known as 36,30’N
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Agreement where California would enter as free state and Utah and New Mexico
Territories would be open to slavery.
• Compromise of 1850
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Stephen Douglas’s idea that people living in an area could decide whether or not to allow
slavery.• Popular Sovereignty
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Attached to the Compromise of 1850,it mandated that northern states return
escaped slaves to their owners in south.• Fugitive Slave Law
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Act that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to determine
if slavery would be allowed.
• Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854
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Armed clashes between proslavery and abolitionist settlers in Kansas
• Bleeding Kansas• Each side est. a
government and Kansas existed as a state in Civil War.
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Political Party that believed slavery must not be permitted in new
territory.
• Free-Soilers• Martin Van Buren was
part of this party
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New Political party that formed around the opposition of slavery
• Republican
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Supreme court case that said slaves were not citizens and said the Missouri
Compromise was unconstitutional.
• Dred Scott Case
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Argument by Stephen Douglas that slavery could not be instituted
without laws to govern it
• Freeport Doctrine• Caused Douglas to
loose support in the South but kept support in the North.
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Fierce abolitionist who hoped to arm the slaves and lead a attempt to seize a weapons depot at
Harpers Ferry Virginia
• John Brown• Was hung for treason• His death helped
unite the abolitionist movement.
• Southerners realized their security was at risk.
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First President of the Confederate states of America
• Jefferson Davis• Took office in
Montgomery Alabama
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Elected as the First Republican president of U.S.
• Abraham Lincoln• Believed that slavery
should not be allowed in the new territories
• His election caused the southern states to begin sucession
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Site where civil war began on April 12, 1861
• Ft. Sumter• As result Lincoln
called for 75,000 troops
• Border states have to decide which side to take.
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County in Alabama that remained neutral during the Civil War
• Winston County• Men meet at Looney’s
Tavern to decide to remain neutral.
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Result of conflict between southern planters in east Virginia and small farmers in the mountains of
west Virginia
• Formation of state of West Virginia
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Strategies at beginning of war
• Union or North• Get southern states to
rejoin the Union
• South• Force the Union to
recognize the rights of southern states to secede
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Military strategy of the north to squeeze the south by naval blockade around the southern coast and
seize control of Mississippi river.• Anaconda Plan
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First land battle of the Civil war
• Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Manassas
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Battle that marked the turning point of the civil war
• Battle of Gettysburg
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Site where Robert E Lee surrendered to General Grant
ending the civil war
• Appomattox courthouse