People
John Brown
Attacked a slave owning family near him
Led the attack on Harpers Ferry and planned to give the weapons to slaves in Virginia
What is the difference between Free-Soilers and other Abolitionists?
Free-Soilers were opposed to slavery on economic grounds instead of morality.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allows popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska
What was odd about the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln won with 40% of the popular vote because the Democratic party was split between the North and the South.
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
(Robert E. Lee was the General)
Dred Scott
A slave who was taken into a free state and sued his master on the grounds that he should have been free in that state
What was the Missouri Compromise?
When Missouri applied to join the Union as a slave state, it would have disrupted the balance of slave/free states so Maine joined as a free state.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
North - California comes in as a free state and DC slave trade is abolished
South - New Fugitive Slave Act and Popular Sovereignty in NM and UT
What was the Northern fear of a "slave power"?
Northerners were worried that the government was under the control of Southern politicians who would pass legislation to protect slavery.
What happened to Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee after the Civil War?
Nothing
John C. Calhoun
Jackson's VP who opposed the Tariff of Abominations and suggested nullifying it.
What was the Tariff of Abominations?
Tariff on goods imported from Europe -especially cloth- to encourage the purchase of American goods.
Bleeding Kansas
The infighting in Kansas between people who wanted it to have slavery and people who didn't.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln freed slaves in the Confederacy (not the Border States) in order to try to destabilize the Southern economy
What was the difference between how Southern leaders talked about the war at the beginning and after they lost?
Southern leaders talked openly about the role of slavery in the war before it started, but after they lost they said it was about state's rights
Anthony Burns
A slave who escaped to Boston, was arrested, and brought back to Virginia. Abolitionists protested and eventually raised the money to buy his freedom.
What was the Nullification Crisis and how did it come from the Tariff of Abominations?
South Carolina nullified the Tariff because it was harmful to the Southern economy.
Eventually SC threatened to secede and the Tariff was lowered.
Sumner-Brooks affair
Brooks (from SC) attacked Sumner (MA) after Sumner critiqued a senator from SC and his protection of slavery
How did Lincoln's stance on slavery change from the beginning to the end of the Civil War?
At the beginning he did not feel obligated to do anything about slavery and was more focused on keeping the Union together.
How did groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans affect people's views on the Civil War?
They advocated for history books to teach states' rights, they kept the myth of the lost cause alive, etc.
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
Outlawed slavery, gave citizenship to former slaves, and gave black men the right to vote