Slavery
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be considered citizens and that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford?
Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South, and West). This can lead to conflict.
What is Sectionalism?
The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
What is States Rights?
16th president of the United States
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
A series of violent conflicts in the Kansas territory between anti-slavery and pro-slavery factions over the status of slavery
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This region favored a high tariffs (taxes applied to imports)
What is the North?
Which state the first to leave the union?
What is South Carolina?
Led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, hoping to induce a slave rebellion
Who is John Brown?
What is secession?
1858 Senate Debate, a series of debates between 2 candidates over the issue of slavery happening in Illinois.
What is the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
How was the North impacted by slavery in the the decades before The Civil War?
What is they bought Southern cotton for their textiles mills?
This 1854 act allowed settlers in new territories like Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery, embodying the idea of states' rights but leading to violent conflict.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This 1787 agreement counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation and taxation, benefiting Southern states in the House of Representatives.
What is the 3/5th compromise?
This law required that Northern States forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This 1820 agreement allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while admitting Maine as a free state and drew a line across the Louisiana Territory, north of which slavery was banned.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1832-1833 confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government centered around South Carolina's attempt to nullify federal tariffs, arguing that states had the right to reject federal laws.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Wrote the book that changed the hearts of millions, called Uncle Toms Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This 1787 agreement combined elements of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan, creating a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in the House and equal representation in the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
A political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into the U.S. territories
What is the Free Soil Party?
This 1850 series of laws aimed to settle tensions between free and slave states by admitting California as a free state, allowing popular sovereignty in some territories, and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The constitutional controversy that led directly to the start of The Civil War concerned the right of states to...
What is secede from the Union?
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Founded in 1632 by Cecilius Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore, as a refuge for Catholics facing persecution in England.
What is Maryland?