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EVENTSMexican War to the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

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Vocabulary Homework1. Personal liberty laws

2. Underground Railroad

3. Harriet Tubman4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin5. Kansas-Nebraska Act6. John Brown7. “Bleeding Kansas”8. Nativism9. Know Nothing Party

10.Free-Soil Party11.Republican

Party12.Dred Scott13.Roger B.

Taney14.Abraham

Lincoln15.Freeport

Doctrine16.Harpers Ferry17.Confederacy18.Jefferson Davis

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My Answer Why I put that Correct Answer Why it is correct

Compromise of 1850

Bleeding Kansas1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act1854

Dred Scott v Sanford1857

Lincoln-Douglas Debates1858

Lincoln Elected

1860

Fort Sumter Attacked1861

John Brown raids Harper’s Ferry

1859

Underground Railroad

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s

Uncle Tom’s Cabin1852 Brooks

BeatsSumner

1854

Timeline of Events Mexican War to Civil War

Compromise of 1850

Created by Henry Clay to solve the controversy between free states and slave states

The terms of the Compromise of 1850:1. North got California admitted to the

Union as a free state2. South got a strict fugitive slave law3. Popular sovereignty (allowing

residents of the new territories to vote for or against slavery) would determine the status of states in the future

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• In 1852, abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe published the world-wide best seller, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• The book created major sectional friction

• The South criticized the book as an attack on the Southern way of life

• The North increased its protests against the Fugitive Slave Act

• When Lincoln met Stowe during the Civil War, he said, “So this is the little lady who made the big war.”

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Underground Railroad• In reaction to the

Fugitive Slave Act, the Underground Railroad was established

• It was a network to aid fugitives slaves to freedom from the South to the North

• The most famous “conductor” was Harriet Tubman

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Kansas-Nebraska Act• Stephen Douglas pushed the Kansas-

Nebraska Act through Congress which called for popular sovereignty to be tested in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

• People from Missouri (slave state) moved to Kansas to vote illegally and they won a majority.

• A proslavery government was established in Lecompton, Kansas

• An anti-slavery government was established in Lawrence, Kansas

• In the months to come, Kansas was plagued with an outbreak of violence between the two opposing sides

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Bleeding Kansas•The rift in Kansas led

to violence and murders

•Abolitionist John Brown led the “Pottawatomie Massacre” by kidnapping five proslavery men & killing them

•Over 200 people were killed

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Brooks beats Sumner• Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner

was verbally attacking supporters of slavery, especially Andre P. Butler of South Carolina

• Butler’s nephew (Preston Brooks) entered the Senate floor and attacked Sumner with his cane

• Sumner suffers shock and brain damage• Southerners applauded Brooks!• Northerners saw this as another

example of Southern brutality

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Dred Scott v. Sandford• Dred Scott was a slave from

Missouri (slave state) who lived with his owner for four years in free territory

• When they returned to Missouri, his owner died

• Scott sued for his freedom, stating that since he lived in free territory, he should be free

• Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that slaves did not have the rights of citizens and could not even sue

• He also ruled the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• The 1858 Illinois Senate race produced an important debate on the issue of the extension of slavery in the territories

•Douglas: did not believe slavery was immoral; believed popular sovereignty would kill slavery in time

•Lincoln: believed slavery was immoral; believed legislation was required to end slavery; slavery should not be allowed to spread

•Key to Lincoln: “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”

•Douglas won the Senate seat, but Lincoln and his beliefs were introduced to the nation.

Lincoln Elected (1860)• No Southern states voted for

Lincoln• South Carolina was the first

state to secede • The Southern states formed

The Confederate States of America (Confederacy) in 1861

• Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy

Question: Do states have the right to secede from the Union?

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Raid on Harpers Ferry•On October 16,

1859, abolitionist John Brown led a band of 21 men, black and white, to seize a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA.

•His goal was to arm the men and start a general slave insurrection

•Plan failed and Brown was captured and hanged

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Fort Sumter Attacked (1861)

• The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina

• Confederates took over federal installations in their states• Lincoln considers this an act of rebellion and treason

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Consequences

• Unites the South

• Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months

• Virginia secedes-great loss for North

• West Virginia is formed in 1863

• Eleven states make up the Confederacy

• Four slave states remain in the Union

Civil War Begins• Everyone expected a short war

• Lincoln’s goal and purpose for going to war: Preserve the Union

Freeport Doctrine

• S. Douglas

• Part of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• After the Dred Scott decision

• He said that slavery could be prevented in any territory if the people who lived there did not pass laws that favored it

Know-Nothing Party• The Know-Nothing

Party was established to favor native-born Americans (nativism)

• They used secret handshakes and passwords

• anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant