Antebellum South
During the early 1800's where did the majority of South Carolinians lived on
Subsistence farms
What does the term sectionalism mean?
Loyalty to a particular region instead of the nation as a whole.
How did the "Trail of Tears" get its name?
Thousands of Native Americans died on the journey to Oklahoma from starvation, cold, and disease
How did John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry further increase sectionalism in the southern states?
Southerners feared that abolitionists and freed slaves were a danger to them.
Confederates wanted to seize this fort after northern attempts to resupply it.
Fort Sumter
What did Southerners use to defend slavery as a "positive good"?
Slaves were better cared for than factory workers in the North.
Why were Southern slaveholders worried about the Northern states' control of the House of Representatives?
They were worried because the North could try to outlaw slavery.
What was the motivation behind the Indian Removal Act?
Move Native Americans out of land that was valuable to cotton growers
Why did Abraham Lincoln win the election of 1860?
He campaigned on “free soil” and the border states and the South split their votes between several candidates.
Remembered for leading the charge on Fort Wagner in the Charleston harbor
54th Massachusetts- an all African American regiment
What was the impact of the invention of the cotton gin on the number of slaves in the South?
The number of slaves increased
What impact did the abolitionist movement have in South Carolina?
It made slave owners more determined to keep their slaves
Union or Confederate Strategy:
Blockade ports to cut off supplies from Europe
Union
According to John C. Calhoun, what could a state do to nullify a federal law?
A state could call a special convention to declare a law unconstitutional.
Who was responsible for delivering a Confederate ship to the blockade and gave valuable information about Charleston's defenses in the Union?
Robert Smalls
What dominated South Carolinian society and politics during the Antebellum Era?
Plantation system
What was the Southern point of view about the expansion of slavery?
They feared that if slavery could not expand then eventually the federal government would outlaw slavery
Union or Confederate Strategy:
To fight a defensive war
Confederate Strategy
Repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed citizens choice on the issue of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Battle of Gettysburg was a departure from which part of the Confederate military strategy?
Fighting a defensive war.
In what way was the reaction to the Stono Rebellion similar to the reaction to the Denmark Vesey plot?
South Carolina passed more laws and restrictions to control slaves.
"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." Henry Clay is speaking out against what development in the USA?
Sectionalism
Union or Confederate Strategy:
Destroy the transportation and communication systems
Union strategy
Allowed African-Americans to join the Union Army
Emancipation Proclamation
The Union controlled the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two at this battle
Battle of Vicksburg