Sectionalism
1. Slaves are property & not citizens
2. Slaves could not file lawsuits
3. Slaves could not be prohibited in the territories
Dred Scott VS Sandford
Southerners attacked this fort; these were the 1st shots of the Civil War (Beginning of Civil War)
Firing at Fort Sumter
Laws passed after the Civil War that restricted the way of life for blacks as if they were slaves.
Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws)
What is sectionalism?
-- Tensions between the North & South
-- When "sections" of the country place their own interests above the nation as a whole
1st African American man elected to Congress (Senate)
Hiram Rhodes Revels
-- Led by abolitionist John Brown
-- Goal was to start a slave rebellion but he was captured and executed
-- 1 cause of the Civil War
Raid on Harpers Ferry
-- Final battle of the Civil War
--Location where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Court House
Helped ex-slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, helping families reunify, and setting up black schools.
Freedman's Bureau
This law would have banned slavery in the land gained from Mexico
-- Angered Southerners
Wilmot Proviso
1. Who was President over the Union?
2. Who was President over the Confederacy?
1. Union President: Abraham Lincoln
2. Confederacy President: Jefferson Davis
Required all people to help catch and return runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
Union victory and turning point of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS !!!
Made all former slaves American citizens
14th Amendment
-- Happened as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
-- Pro & anti slavery forces fought for Kansas' vote.
-- A lot of casualties suffered and this split Kansas territory into 2 govts.
"Bleeding Kansas"
-- 1st battle in the Union territory
-- bloodiest day of the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
1. This maintained the balance slave states and free states
2. Admitted ME as a free state & MO as a slave state
Missouri (MO) Compromise
Freed slaves only in Confederate-controlled land
Emancipation Proclamation
Abolitionists particularly fought hard for the introduction of this amendment
13th Amendment
Belief that states had the right to nullify (declare null/void) federal laws and had the right to secede (withdraw)
Nullification Crisis
This granted blacks full citizenship and civil rights (voting rights)
Civil Rights Act
1. This allowed settlers to choose if they would allow slavery (Popular sovereignty)
2. Replaced Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1. Grant forced Confederates to surrender Vicksburg
2. Gained Mississippi River
3. Split the Confederacy in two
Battle/ Siege of Vicksburg
Guaranteed the right to vote to all citizens, regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (enslavement)
15th Amendment
1. Critics like Abraham Lincoln who opposed the Kansas Nebraska act formed this political party
2. They opposed any further extension of slavery into new territories
Republican Party
Homestead Act