Places
This state was "Bleeding" as popular sovereignty turned to violence.
Kansas
This machine
Quickly made cotton so clean
Cotton Gin
The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act both "allowed" popular sovereignty to decide whether or not new Western land would allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Voting, Democracy
(People have the power)
The Latin term meaning "before the war."
Antebellum
The United States conquered vast lands in the East during the Antebellum Era.
The United States grew West during the Antebellum Era.
In 1820, _____ became a state allowing slavery, and ______ became a state that did not allow slavery. This kept a balance of power in the Senate.
Missouri (allowed) and Maine (did not allow)
All day long,
Courageous people sang these meaningful songs.
Coded spiritual songs
Which House of Congress stayed balanced thanks to the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri Compromise keep a balance in of power in the Senate by admitting 1 state that did allow slavery (MO) and 1 state that did not allow slavery (ME).
The term meaning "to break away from." South Carolina's government threatened to do this in 1832, 30 years before the actual Civil War.
Secede (secession)
South Carolina threatened to secede from the United States over a tax that hurt the North, but helped the South.
South Carolina threatened to secede from the United States over a tax that hurt the South, but helped the North.
We studied the population charts of Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Which county is in the South?
Augusta County, Virginia is in the South
In 1857, the Supreme Court decision
Ruled that people of African descent were not _____
Citizens
(Dred Scott case)
Compromise of 1850:
In this city one powerful symbol of Antebellum division was how the slave trade was abolished, but the legal protection of slavery was NOT.
Washington, D.C.
The term meaning you value your local/regional identity more than your loyalty to the whole group.
Sectionalism
Dred Scott's case ruled that people of African descent had full rights as citizens and were should be free if they were in a free state.
Dred Scott's case ruled that people of African descent were not citizens and were not free even in a free state.
One big antebellum division among regions was different types of economic activity. This region was home to the majority of industrial cities.
The North (i.e. textile mills)
Compared to Augusta County's two towns,
Franklin County had ____ and dominated, hands down.
21 towns
This federal law was part of the compromise package in 1850. As a result, a person of African heritage could be claimed as property in any state, no matter if that state had outlawed slavery.
Fugitive Slave Law
The term meaning the dominant economic activity in the Southern states during the Antebellum years.
aka farming
Agriculture
As he ran for President in 1860, Lincoln said he would abolish slavery everywhere.
Lincoln said he would not allow slavery in new states, but that he would not abolish it where it already existed.
When the Erie Canal was completed in 1825, this Northern city quickly became the #1 largest city in the country.
New York City (passed New Orleans, Louisiana)
In 1850,
This important western state joined the USA as a free state, and it was very nifty.
California
South Carolina took center stage in 1832 because the state REFUSED to compromise. The state argued that if its people voted to NOT follow a law passed by _______, they should not have to.
Congress
This is the Nullification Crisis.
The term meaning "unavoidable" or "certain to happen."
Given all these Antebellum tensions, was the Civil War _____?
Inevitable
Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Angelina Grimke, David Drake, and John C. Calhoun all agreed about how the United States should grow.
Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Angelina Grimke, and David "Dave" Drake were all courageous abolitionists. John C. Calhoun was NOT - he said slavery was a "positive good."