Antebellum South
What system dominated South Carolina politics and society in the Antebellum era?
The plantation system
What is sectionalism?
Loyalty to a particular region or section of a country instead of to the nation as a whole
What is the nickname for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee native nations?
The Five Civilized Tribes
What did Vice President John C. Calhoun support during the Nullification Crisis (Tariffs of 1828 and 1832)?
Calhoun supported the doctrine of states' rights and nullification
How did the Union military use captured Port Royal?
As a base to launch attacks on Charleston
Who worked as Drivers on plantations?
A trusted slave on a plantation who was placed in charge of other slaves.
What was the impact of the Abolitionist Movement in South Carolina?
It made slave owners even more determined to keep their slaves.
In what region of the United States do the Five Civilized Tribes live?
Southeast
Which major issue did all of these acts revolve around?
1820- Missouri Compromise
1850- Compromise of 1850
1854- Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857- Dred Scott decision
Westward expansion of slavery/slavery spreading into the territories
What was the Confederacy's main focus of their military strategy?
Defense
Who worked as Overseers on plantations?
A hired white male who ran the plantation when the master was not present.
What was the Southern viewpoint about the expansion of slavery?
They believed that if slavery did not expand into the territories then eventually the federal government would outlaw it.
Why were states taking control of native lands?
Natives lived on land that was valuable to cotton farmers
What was the name of the law being described?
-Fugitive Slave Law
-the admission of California to the Union
-outlaw the slave trade in the District of Columbia
-popular sovereignty for the admission of new states
The Compromise of 1850
What Confederate submarine was used to attempt to get past the Union blockade?
The H.L. Hunley
What impact did the invention of the cotton gin have on slavery?
It made cotton planters more dependent on slave labor/increasing the number of slaves
How were reactions to the Stono Rebellion and the Denmark Vesey Plot similar?
They passed more laws restricting all aspects of slaves' lives/created or strengthened slave codes.
What did the Supreme Court rule in Worcester v. Georgia?
That state and federal governments could not take native land because it was sovereign
Which law repealed the Missouri Compromise and called for popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What were African Americans able to do after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Freed if the Union took control of the area where they were enslaved or able to fight for the Union
How did plantation owners defend slavery as a "positive good?"
By saying their slaves were better cared for than the factory workers of the North
What is this Henry Clay quote referring to?
"I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance."
Sectionalism
The Indian Removal act earned what nickname after thousands of Native Americans died on the journey to Oklahoma from starvation, cold, and disease?
The Trail of Tears
What event led to the secession of South Carolina and other southern states?
The election of 1860
What was the purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea?
Total war was meant to bring mass destruction to the people and encourage Confederate surrender