This state was admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850
California
Who said in a speech in 1858 "A house divided against itself cannot stand, this country cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free"
Abraham Lincoln while running for Senate in 1858.
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
This tract of land was acquired by the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War
the Mexican Cession
The strategy that effectively stifled Southern resources by blocking ports and controlling the Mississippi River
the Anaconda Plan
As a result of the gained territory at the end of the Mexican American War, what issue was thrust into the spotlight of political debates?
The expansion of slavery
Supreme Court case that said that African Americans could not be citizens
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Leading up to the Civil War, it was clear that the North (Union) had many advantages including population, money, industry, railroads, a navy etc.
What was the biggest advantage that the South had at the beginning?
For Example: Robert E. Lee
This is an economic system that assisted southern society in circumventing the new realities brought about by the 13th Amendment.
Sharecropping
The annexation of this eventual state and a dispute over its southern border is one of the causes of the Mexican American War
Texas
This was a book that was written in 1852 about the horrors of slavery and helped to spark recruitment toward the abolitionist movement
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?
To encourage the continued war effort. "These honored dead shall not have died in vain"
These were laws passed by southern local and state governments to limit the new found freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
Explain how ideas of Manifest Destiny can be linked to causing the Civil War
Reinsel will Judge
Manifest Destiny---> Gaining new territory---> debates over the expansion of slavery----> rising tension between state governments and federal government
This act was passed to establish a building of a railroad but also was passed to regulate a western territory and established that popular sovereignty would be used to determine if slavery would be permitted there. This had negative effects.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This was a direct effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that could be described as a "mini Civil War"
Bleeding Kansas
Name one of the three main purposes of the Emancipation Proclamation
1.discourage foreign assistance
2. cause unrest in the South, runaway slaves
3.change the focus of the war
Compromise of 1877