Causes Of Civil War Assessment Flashcards
Missouri Compromise (1820)
-Missouri entered as a slave state
-Maine entered as a free state
-Drew a line; anything above the line would be free and anything below would be slave
-Attempted to create a balance between northern and southern states on the issue
Compromise of 1850
-California was admitted as a free state
-Henry Clay (Great Compromiser) came up with the plan
-Popular Sovereignty: people decide/rule; people vote; states’ determine their status by voting
-Fugitive Slave Act - northerners were expected to help return runaway slaves; northerners were outraged
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851)
-anti-slavery novel by author Harriet Beacher Stowe
-widened the differences between the North and South
-increased abolitionism in the North
-disrupted British sympathy for the Southern cause
-Abolitionist- people who wanted to abolish slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
-repealed the Missouri compromise
-popular sovereignty - people would vote
-Violence broke out over the slave issue
-“Bleeding Kansas”, first sign of bloodshed over slave issue
-Established Kansas and Nebraska
Dred Scott Decision (1857)
-Dred Scott’s master moved him from a slave state to a free state
-Scott sued for his freedom
-slaves cannot sue for legal rights
-Slaves= property and property can be moved throughout the U.S.
-Supreme Court turned them back to slavery
-Ruled Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
John Brown and Harper’s Ferry (1857)
-raids a federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, VA
-Planned to arm slaves to rebel against their masters
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
(1858-1859)
-senator race in Illinois
-issues- slavery; preserving the Union
-“house divided” speech
Election of Lincoln (1860)
-4 candidates
-won 40% of popular votes but lincoln won the electoral votes
South Carolina Secedes (1860)
-Southerners felt they did not have a voice with Lincoln in office
-formed the confederate states of america
