Long Term Causes
Term used to describe political, economic, and social divisions within a country.
What is Sectionalism?
Act enacted as a part of Compromise of 1850 that resulted in formerly enslaved and free Black Americans being captured and taken to Southern plantations.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What are factories?
Lincoln was speaking against this in his House Divided speech: "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free."
What are Slavery and the Slavery Compromises?
Restrictive laws that limited freedoms of Black Americans during Reconstruction in the South.
What are Black Codes
The "peculiar institution" that abolitionists wanted to abolish.
slavery
Compromise to balance slave/non-slave holding states that allowed popular sovereignty (states get to vote).
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
This benefitted the Northern states by allowing them to have a: stable currency, safe place for wealthy investors to deposit money, and provide loans.
What is the Bank of the United States?
Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Amendment that gave voting rights to African American men.
What is the Fifteenth (15th) Amendment?
Region of the United States that benefitted most from the American System.
What is the North?
Supreme Court case which stated that “enslaved individuals were considered property under the 5th Amendment" and overturned the Missouri Compromise.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sandford?
Form of transportation that gave a distinct advantage to the North (Union) in the Civil War.
What are railroads?
Document that allowed:
- Enslaved individuals in rebelling states were free
- African Americans could join the army (54th Massachusetts regiment)
- by shifting the focus of war to slavery, Confederacy was unable to get support from Britain
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This occurred as a result of tensions between the Republican held Congress and President Johnson's leniency toward Southern states, his numerous vetoes of Congressional actions (overridden) and ultimately his firing of Secretary of War (Stanton).
What is the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868)
Event that led to the Nullification Crisis since South Carolina viewed it as unfair to the South.
What was the Protective Tariff/Tariff of Abominations?
How John Brown's actions differed from other abolitionists (ex. raid on Harper's Ferry)
What is the controversial use of increased violence?
The new political party established to stop the expansion of slavery into western territories after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854).
What is the Republican Party?
Union "Scorched Earth" strategy where William T. Sherman burned all cities and resources to keep the Confederacy from being able to regroup and organize a retaliation.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
These were created in the former Confederacy as a result of the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
This invention caused an increase in cotton production leading to increase in enslaved populations in South/West.
Cotton Gin
Event that caused Southern states to secede from the Union after realizing their political voice was "silenced."
What is the Election of 1860 (Abraham Lincoln)?
The name of the Northern (Union) military strategy.
Anaconda Plan
This organization helped to assist formerly enslaved individuals in the South by providing education, food, and legal assistance.
Freedman's Bureau
Organization that was created by white supremacist groups to intimidate Black voters by using violence.
Ku Klux Klan