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Abolitionism and its Effect
The Emergence of States Rights
Free States, Slave States
Aspects of the Civil War
Westward Expansion
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An ardent abolitionist, decided to fight slavery with violence and killing. In 1856, believing he was chosen by God to end slavery, Brown commanded family members and other abolitionists to attack proslavery settlers in Kansas, killing five men
What is John Brown's Raid?
100
As the 19th century approached its half-way mark, two distinct regions were developing in the United States. The social and economic disparity between the Northern and Mid-western states and the Southern states contributed to the rise of ________________.
What is sectionalism?
100
The ____________________ was four years in the making. Northern Whigs and Southern Democrats engaged in heated attacks on one another on the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession. Then the discovery of gold in California in 1848 rapidly increased the population of the territory past the 100,000 citizens’ necessary for statehood.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
100
In April 1861, Confederate forces attacked the U.S. Army fortress at Fort Sumter, South Carolina and the long-feared Civil War began.
What is The Battle of Fort Sumter?
100
After the ______________ War, settlers began to fill the Ohio Valley and moved out into western Georgia and Alabama.
What is American Revolution War?
200
In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the __________, settling a lawsuit in which a slave claimed he should be a free man because he had lived with his master in slave states and in free states. The Court rejected Scott’s claim, ruling that no African American––even if free––could be a U.S. citizen. The Court said Congress could not prohibit slavery in federal territories.
What is Dred Scott decision?
200
The ______________had a profound effect on North-South relations. Calhoun continued to vocally support the issue of states’ rights and began to build a coalition of southerners who would not back down from the threat of force in the future. Slave owners began to wonder what would happen if the Federal government decided to end slavery by law.
What is The Nullification Crisis
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As a part of their plan of statehood, ____________ drew up a state constitution that outlawed slavery in the proposed state. Southern politicians objected to California’s admission as a free state on two points. First, Southerners argued that the exclusion of slavery in the territory violated the Missouri Compromise (the compromise line split the state).
What is Californians?
200
• President of the United States from 1861-1865 • Issued Emancipation Proclamation • Promoted the Thirteenth Amendment
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The phrase originated in 1845 when __________, a newspaper editor, wrote that it was America’s "Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."
Who is John L. O’Sullivan?
300
The _______________ virtually repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. Settlers in all new territories would have the right to decide for themselves whether their new home would be a free or a slave state.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
. Andrew Jackson’s Vice President ___________ argued with President Jackson about the right of states to nullify (cancel) federal laws they opposed. Calhoun, a South Carolinian, resigned from the vice presidency to lead the efforts of the southern states in this crisis.
Who is John Calhoun?
300
_____________ was the leading voice for temperance, women’s equality and immediate emancipation. He was the founder and editor of The Liberator. Garrison’s newspaper was the leading abolitionist newspaper and was noted for graphic stories of the bad treatment received by slaves.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee marched his forces to Antietam Creek, Maryland, where he fought the war’s first major battle on northern soil. It was the deadliest one-day battle in American history, with over 26,000 casualties, but neither side won a victory.
What is The Battle of Antietam?
300
Senators linked the admission of Maine and Missouri together and added a last minute provision restricting slavery to a line south of latitude 36°, 30” (Missouri’s southern border), excepting Missouri itself. Northern Senators hoped to restrict the further expansion of slavery into the Louisiana Territory.
What is Missouri Compromise?
400
African American preacher _________ believed his mission on Earth was to free his people from slavery. Seeing an 1831 solar eclipse as a message from above, he led a slave rebellion on four Virginia plantations. About 60 whites were killed before Turner and his band were captured, tried, and executed.
What is Nat Turner Rebellion?
400
Politics were dominated by ___________________ and their commercial interests, while in the North an era of mass political involvement had begun. Southerners saw newly opening lands in the far west as an opportunity to preserve and protect the southern way of life.
What is wealthy plantation owners?
400
Sarah and Angelina, were southern women who lectured publicly throughout the northern states about the evils of slavery they had seen growing up on a plantation. Their public careers began when Garrison published a letter from Angelina in his newspaper. The sisters were considered very radical for the time because they advocated not just abolition but equality for women and African-Americans.
Who are the The Grimke sisters?
400
July 1863––Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee hoped that an invasion of Union territory would significantly weaken Northern support for the war effort. Lee’s army was met by Union troops in Pennsylvania. In the course of a three-day battle, as many as 51,000 were killed. It was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
400
During this War,the United States insisted that the U.S.-Mexican border was the Rio Grande, while Mexico insisted that the border was marked by the Nueces River (150 miles north of the Rio Grande).
What is The Mexican-American War?
500
The Second Great Awakening marked a resurgence of the abolitionist movement. By 1833 the abolitionist movement began to organize itself into a mass movement. Name the two men mainly responsible for the abolitionist movement?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglas?
500
The North and Mid-west were industrial, increasingly educated, and populated by a growing immigrant population. The Southern states continued to rely heavily on _________________ for all aspects of its economy
What is agriculture and slave labor?
500
A former slave. This person worked for Garrison and traveled widely, giving eloquent speeches on behalf of equality for African Americans, women, Native Americans, and immigrants. He later published autobiographies and his own antislavery newspaper, The North Star. He was the most influential African-American in the abolitionist movement.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
500
Lincoln used executive powers again to issue the ____________________. It emancipated (freed) all slaves held in the Confederate states. Lincoln did not expect Confederate slaveholders to free their slaves, but he thought news of the proclamation would reach southern slaves and encourage them to flee to the North.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
500
Pennsylvania Representative David Wilmot introduced legislation in the House that boldly declared "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in lands won in the Mexican-American War. What was this Bill called?
What is Wilmot Proviso?