Part B Flashcards
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
David Potter
“Northerner’s attitudes toward slavery was never quite the same after Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Lincoln
So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war
Lincoln Douglas debates
Harold Holzer
The seven debates…are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the civil war”
Lincoln Douglas debates
Lincoln
If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong
John Brown’s Raid
Frederick Douglass
John Brown began the war that ended American slavery
John Brown’s Raid
Richmond Newspaper
The Harper’s Ferry invasion has advanced the cause of disunion more than any other event that has happened since the formation of its government
1860 Election of Lincoln
James Mcpherson
Abraham Lincoln’s election convinced them they had lost control of the national government and, therefore, of slavery’s fate within the union
Southern Secession
David Potter
To a much greater degree than the slaveholders desired, secession had become a slave owners movement
Southern Secession
South Carolina reason
A geographical line has been drawn across the union, and all the states North of that line have been united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the U.S. Whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery
Attempts at Compromise
Lincoln
The question of extending slavery under the national auspices- I am inflexible
Attempts at Compromise
David Potter
Given the momentum of secession and the fundamental set of Republicanism it is probably safe to say that compromise was impossible from the start
Attempts at Compromise
Sanderson Beck
Lincoln rejected the option of letting the Southern states withdraw peacefully…blocking any attempt to resolve the conflict by peaceful means
Lincoln and Fort Sumter
Sanderson Beck
Lincoln had provoked it by insisting on keeping control over federal forts in their territory
North and South Economic Differences
Charles Beard
Economic issues such as the tariff and government subsidies to transportation and manufacturing were what really divided the power brokers, Northern manufacturers and Southern planters
North and South Economic Differences
Sanderson Beck
The South also felt exploited by the North because of the high tariffs that resulted in Southern taxes being used in other parts of the country
The North’s passionate attachment to the Union
Lincoln
If I could save the union without freeing any Slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that
The North’s passionate attachment to the Union
Maldwyn Jones
Northerners… Had learned to identify the union with liberty and democracy and to feel that it’s continuance was crucial
Secession challenged the idea of American nationalism
Slavery
William W Freehling
The most charged [word] in the antebellum political vocabulary: slavepower
Slavery
Frederick Douglass
Slavery is the primal cause of that war
Slavery
Lincoln
Slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Slavery
Sanderson Beck
The horrible institution of slavery was obviously the issue that provoked the conflict between the southern slave States and the northern states
General Sectional Tension
James McPherson
North and South might speak the same language but by the mid-19th century they were increasingly using this language to revile each other
