Rebellions & Court Cases
Who led the uprising at Harpers Ferry? (He was a known white abolitionist that was willing to resort to violence)
John Brown
This agreement settled the Election of 1876, pulled the last troops out of the South, and ended Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
Which side had a larger population overall? How might that help during the war?
The North - it gave them more men who could fight in the war
This was one of the first compromises made in an attempt to stop slavery from becoming a bigger issue in the United States. It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, it also drew a line across the US and any state above would be a free state and any state below would be a slave state.
Missouri Compromise
Explain the importance of Abraham Lincoln and the election of 1860.
The southern states were fearful of Lincoln becoming president because they thought he might try to end slavery.
In the end, did Nat Turner's Rebellion hurt or help slaves in the South?
In a lot of ways, the rebellion hurt slaves as slave owners became very scared of other rebellions forming. Slave owners began to crack down on slaves and restrict their rights even more.
Explain the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment.
13th - Freed slaves
14th - Gave African Americans citizenship and equal protections under the law
15th - Gave African Americans the right to vote
As the number of slaves in the south increased from 1800 to 1860, what important non-food crop saw an increase in production?
Cotton
Under the new Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, what became a felony?
Helping runaway slaves
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend” it.
-President Lincoln in his First Inaugural Address
According to this excerpt, what is Lincoln's primary job / goal?
Preserve, protect, and defend the Union.
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not considered citizens, which only further divided the North and the South on the issue of slavery.
Dred Scott Case
While African Americans struggled to maintain their right to vote in the South during Reconstruction, there were some improvements. What is one positive thing we see happen during this time in relation to African Americans and government?
A few African American men are elected to Congress (such as Hiram Revels)
How did the North's industrialization impact them going into the war?
More railroad tracks were in the North, which would make it easier for them to transport soldiers, supplies, and weapons
Who first came up with the term "Bleeding Kansas" and why did he do so?
*Hint: Lincoln wrote this person a letter to address how he felt about slavery
Horace Greely - he used the term to show how deadly the argument of slavery was becoming
If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." -President Lincoln
According to this quote from Lincoln, how does he feel about slavery in the United States?
He cares more about saving the Union than he does slavery.
Which Supreme Court case set up racial segregation as okay as long as the facilities were "separate but equal"?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The 14th Amendment states:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Which group in Congress advocated most for this amendment to be ratified?
Radical Republicans
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin gave the American people an honest and horrifying look at the institution of slavery. What was a major effect of the publication of this novel?
The Abolitionist movement began across the United States
What Act officially repealed the Missouri Compromise?
Hint: two states had the chance to vote on whether or not they would be slave or free states
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."
What document is the excerpt above from? What was the major effect this document had?
Emancipation Proclamation - freed all the slaves in states that were in the Confederacy.
Ruling on the 1896 Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court stated that, "Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation (White and African Americans) in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power."
This ruling upheld the constitutionality of what?
Jim Crow Laws (Black Codes)
After the war ended, the 15th amendment was passed to give African American's the right to vote. How did Southern States react to this?
They enacted black codes / Jim Crow laws that made it very difficult to vote. Poll taxes and literacy tests were both used to make voting nearly impossible for African Americans.
Name and explain ONE economic difference between the North and the South
Answers may vary. Possible answers include: number of railroad tracks in the North, Industry vs. agriculture, population sizes, etc.
List the correct order of the following events from earliest to latest:
1. Compromise of 1850
2. Missouri Compromise
3. Kansas Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise (1820), Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow— this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Name what speech the above quote comes from. What is the greatest task remains for the living?
Support a new birth of freedom across the U.S.