Definition
Taxes placed on goods imported from other countries.
What is tariffs?
Four candidates ran for POTUS in 1860. Abraham Lincoln runs on a platform to stop the expansion of slavery.
What is the Election of 1860?
Liked: Fugitive Slave Act passed in North.
Not liked: Now there are more Free States than there are Slave States.
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What is Compromise of 1850?
Not Liked: Anti-Slavery candidate Abraham Lincoln wins with less than 50% of the popular vote.
Not Liked: The South fears he will end slavery so they secede from the Union.
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What is the Election of 1860?
True or False? Abraham Lincoln did NOT receive votes in the South when he ran for president.
What is true?
A condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.
What is slavery?
Granted California admission as a free state, upsetting the balance. But to keep the Southern states happy, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed as well.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Liked: South thinks this will stop the Underground Railroad from being effective.
Not Liked: Upset when they see many Northerners not following the Fugitive Slave law.
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What is Fugitive Slave Act?
Liked: The South's economy was dependent on cotton and slave labor.
Not Liked: Did not see anything morally wrong with enslaving other human beings.
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What is slavery?
What is the meaning of nullification?
The Constitution says that while the federal laws are supreme, each state has the right to make some of its own laws and have some power & independence.
What is States' Rights?
As part of the deal in the Compromise of 1850, Northerners were now legally required to arrest and return any person they knew or suspected was a runaway slave.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
Liked: Helped prevent/delay the secession of Southern states and the Civil War for 11 years.
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What is Georgia Platform?
Not Liked: Southerners had to purchase more expensive products made in the North.
Not Liked: Britain put their own tax on cotton imports in retaliation so it hurt profits.
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What is tariffs?
What does the word "secede" mean?
What is to separate from a nation or state and become independent?
After Lincoln's election, Georgia leaders got together to decide if they should secede from the Union.
What is Debate Over Secession?
Supreme Court decision - ruled that African-Americans were legally property, were not citizens, and had no rights. Also legalized slavery everywhere in the US. (Just not in the South)
What is Dred Scott Case?
Liked: MAJOR victory for the South - decision said that slavery could not be prohibited anywhere in the US according to the decision.
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What is Dred Scott Case?
Liked: Believe that states should have power to make own laws & that slavery laws are decision of residents of state.
Not Liked: They got very upset when federal government tries to tell them what to do.
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What is States' Rights?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What is the first major compromise dealing with the expansion of slavery into the Western territories, slavery is now limited and only legal in areas below Missouri's southern border?
A result of southern states resistance to imposed, protective tariffs on foreign goods to guard emerging industries. Southern states viewed these tariffs as “unconstitutional”.
What is Nullification Crisis?
With the nation facing the potential threat of disunion over the passage of the Compromise of 1850, Georgia, in a special state convention, adopted a proclamation called...
What is Georgia Platform?
Not liked: Many Georgians did not want to secede and voted against it.
Liked: However, in the end, most voted to secede and become part of "new country" the Confederate States of America.
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What is Debate Over Secession?
Liked: Tariff "discriminated against" & hurt the South's economy. They tried to "nullify" the law, refused to pay tariffs, and threatened to secede from the Union. Argued how it based on "State's Right" to ignore a federal law.
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What is Nullification Crisis?
What does "confederation" mean in the Civil War?
What is when a group of people or nations form an alliance, it is called a confederation, allowing each member to govern itself but agreeing to work together for common causes?