Some Causes
He escaped from slavery and became a famous abolitionist, advisor to President Lincoln, writer and diplomat. He urged Lincoln to enlist African-American troops. Eventually, around 200,000 would serve.
Frederick Douglass
Which region generally thought the raid on Harper's Ferry was a conspiracy to hurt their economy and kill their people?
The South
Name the congressmen who successfully arranged two compromises he hoped would avoid conflict between the North and the South
Henry Clay
A political party was formed in Wisconsin in 1854. Many of its members were former Whigs who wanted to limit or abolish slavery and give free land to settlers. Name the party.
The Republican Party
"Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, helped cause war by showing what slavery was like in the South. Who wrote it?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a Union spy and scout and an organizer of jobs and housing for freed slaves. She even led a Union raid and was granted a military pension.
Harriet Tubman
Name the election whose result was a signal for the South to secede.
The Election of 1860
Gold was discovered in this state in 1848. It led to the state having a population of over 300,000 in two years and led to a request for statehood.
California
Pro and anti-slavery forces clashed in Kansas in 1856 over whether the state would come in as free or slave. Over 200 people were killed. Name the conflict.
Bleeding Kansas
A loyalty to one's own region or area of the country above the country itself.
sectionalism
In one of the worst Supreme Court cases ever, a slave sued for his freedom claiming he had lived in a free state and was therefor free. The Court rejected his argument. This pleased many in the South and angered many in the North. What was the name of the slave?
Dred Scott
The 1858 senatorial campaign in Illinois gained national attention for a series of debates between the two candidates. What was the name of the debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates
A rather large territory wanted to be a state. It wanted to come in as a free state. Name the compromise that allowed this to happen in 1850.
The Compromise of (wait for it...) 1850!
After the Mexican War, the U.S. gained millions of acres of land. This caused a conflict over what issue?
slavery
South Carolina hated tariffs imposed by congress on imported goods in 1832 and refused to enforce them. This was called:
Nullification
Which southern state was the first to secede from the union? (December 20, 1860)
South Carolina
Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed a change to the Missouri Compromise. In order to gain support for a railroad he offered the possibility of slavery in territories west of Missouri if voted for. The act passed was:
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
In the Compromise of 1850, the North got two items they wished to have in the compromise. What were they?
1. California would enter as a free state
2. There would be no more slave trading in Washington D.C.
One result of the Mexican War directly impacted the military leadership of the American Civil War.
Many of the generals in the Civil War served as junior officers in the Mexican War.
The importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was banned by congress in this year.
1808
He slipped into Harper's Ferry, Virginia on October 16, 1859. He intended to capture the federal arsenal there and give guns to slaves. The raid failed and he was hanged. Many in the South hated him. Many in the North thought he was right.
John Brown
Under the Compromise of 1850, the South got two things they were looking for:
1. an enforced Fugitive Slave Law
2. Popular Sovereignty to decide slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories
It was believed that the southern states would always have fewer citizens and therefore fewer members in the House of Representatives. Therefore it was decided to count slaves as a fraction of a person to boost the population. What was the fraction?
3/5
A bill to limit slavery in the territories gained from Mexico failed in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1848. The thought that it would even be introduced angered many southern congressmen.
The Wilmot Proviso
Many people worked to abolish slavery. These people were called:
Abolitionists