The Union in Peril - Plain Local Schools
... ignored the issue of slavery and concentrated on internal improvements. Franklin Pierce (Democrat-NH): acceptable to the South because he supported the Fugitive Slave Law The Democrats won all but 4 states. ...
... ignored the issue of slavery and concentrated on internal improvements. Franklin Pierce (Democrat-NH): acceptable to the South because he supported the Fugitive Slave Law The Democrats won all but 4 states. ...
The Civil War 1861-1865
... on the issues that divided them. The Missouri The Kansas Compromise of Nebraska Act of 1820 established the 1854 changed that mason dixion line. an established that Above the line the citizens of these would be free below states would vote on would be slave. the slavery issues. ...
... on the issues that divided them. The Missouri The Kansas Compromise of Nebraska Act of 1820 established the 1854 changed that mason dixion line. an established that Above the line the citizens of these would be free below states would vote on would be slave. the slavery issues. ...
SOL 9b: States` Rights and Slavery
... Union as a FREE state. 2) Compromise of 1850: California entered the Union as a FREE state. Southwest territories would DECIDE about slavery (popular sovereignty). 3) Kansas-Nebraska Act: People in each state would decided the SLAVERY issue (popular sovereignty) ...
... Union as a FREE state. 2) Compromise of 1850: California entered the Union as a FREE state. Southwest territories would DECIDE about slavery (popular sovereignty). 3) Kansas-Nebraska Act: People in each state would decided the SLAVERY issue (popular sovereignty) ...
A Divided Nation
... gained fame from his debates against Stephen Douglas. His most famous being the charge, “A house divided upon itself can not stand.” ...
... gained fame from his debates against Stephen Douglas. His most famous being the charge, “A house divided upon itself can not stand.” ...
Road to the Civil War
... territories (Texas, New Mexico, and California) brought the issue back up ...
... territories (Texas, New Mexico, and California) brought the issue back up ...
The Union in Peril - Plain Local Schools
... ignored the issue of slavery and concentrated on internal improvements. Franklin Pierce (Democrat-NH): acceptable to the South because he supported the Fugitive Slave Law The Democrats won all but 4 states. ...
... ignored the issue of slavery and concentrated on internal improvements. Franklin Pierce (Democrat-NH): acceptable to the South because he supported the Fugitive Slave Law The Democrats won all but 4 states. ...
Chapter 10
... -Lincoln send troops into Baltimore- makes Maryland safe -Kentucky stays neutral, eventually joins Union -Missouri stays in the Union ...
... -Lincoln send troops into Baltimore- makes Maryland safe -Kentucky stays neutral, eventually joins Union -Missouri stays in the Union ...
Uncle Tom`s Cabin
... this group opposed annexation because they feared the admission of new slave states ...
... this group opposed annexation because they feared the admission of new slave states ...
Chapter 19
... expansionists. Controversies over Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Gadsden Purchase showed that expansionism was closely linked to the slavery issue. The desire for a northern railroad route led Stephen Douglas to ram the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress in 1854. By repealing the Missouri Compromise and ...
... expansionists. Controversies over Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Gadsden Purchase showed that expansionism was closely linked to the slavery issue. The desire for a northern railroad route led Stephen Douglas to ram the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress in 1854. By repealing the Missouri Compromise and ...
Timeline Events
... Due to the passing of tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 Southern states like South Carolina felt that the tariffs were unfair and only supported the North. Vice President John C. Calhoun said any state could nullify (make void) a federal law it considers unconstitutional. When the federal government deni ...
... Due to the passing of tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 Southern states like South Carolina felt that the tariffs were unfair and only supported the North. Vice President John C. Calhoun said any state could nullify (make void) a federal law it considers unconstitutional. When the federal government deni ...
Civil War Vocabulary
... • Allowed new western states to decide by popular sovereignty if slavery would be allowed in that state ...
... • Allowed new western states to decide by popular sovereignty if slavery would be allowed in that state ...
Timeline of Slavery in America
... slavery. California entered the union as a free state, but the territories of New Mexico, Utah, and Texas were allowed to decide, as individual states, the choice of being a slave state or a free state. 1850 also saw the passage of another much stricter Fugitive Slave Law being put into effect. ...
... slavery. California entered the union as a free state, but the territories of New Mexico, Utah, and Texas were allowed to decide, as individual states, the choice of being a slave state or a free state. 1850 also saw the passage of another much stricter Fugitive Slave Law being put into effect. ...
Back in the U.S.A….
... **tariff – tax on goods brought into a country • Northern businesspeople want to protect their industries from foreign competition • Southerners traded mainly with Europe: cotton, tobacco, and other agricultural products for manufactured goods ...
... **tariff – tax on goods brought into a country • Northern businesspeople want to protect their industries from foreign competition • Southerners traded mainly with Europe: cotton, tobacco, and other agricultural products for manufactured goods ...
Chapter 1 Notes - Upper Iowa University
... Missouri Compromise line as the price for their support, which led Northern Whigs to leave the party en mass and form the new Republican Party, committed to the principle of free soil ...
... Missouri Compromise line as the price for their support, which led Northern Whigs to leave the party en mass and form the new Republican Party, committed to the principle of free soil ...
Causes of the Cival War
... Half the owners had one to four slaves. A total of 8000 planters owned 50 or more and 1800 planters owned 100 or more; of the latter, 85% lived in the lower South. 393,975 individuals, representing 8 percent of all US families, owned 3,950,528 slaves. 95% of African-Americans lived in the South, com ...
... Half the owners had one to four slaves. A total of 8000 planters owned 50 or more and 1800 planters owned 100 or more; of the latter, 85% lived in the lower South. 393,975 individuals, representing 8 percent of all US families, owned 3,950,528 slaves. 95% of African-Americans lived in the South, com ...
Lincoln, Secession and War
... End slavery in the territories. Each state can control its own decisions. No interference in states where slavery already existed . ...
... End slavery in the territories. Each state can control its own decisions. No interference in states where slavery already existed . ...
Politics of Slavery
... Democrats founded the Free Soil Party, making slavery the central issue of the campaign Neither the Whigs nor Democrats took an official stand on slavery in the election of 1848 ...
... Democrats founded the Free Soil Party, making slavery the central issue of the campaign Neither the Whigs nor Democrats took an official stand on slavery in the election of 1848 ...
Civil War - TeacherWeb
... - Southern states were quickly losing political power at the federal level to the anti-slavery North because their booming population gave them more representation in the House of Representatives and the electoral college. - This leads to problems over issues like the tariff issue. In 1828, the nort ...
... - Southern states were quickly losing political power at the federal level to the anti-slavery North because their booming population gave them more representation in the House of Representatives and the electoral college. - This leads to problems over issues like the tariff issue. In 1828, the nort ...
From Sectionalism to Secession
... the sides: the Union vs The Confederacy Anaconda Strategy Peace Democrats aka Copperheads President Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greely, editor of the New York Tribune, on August 22, 1862: o “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slav ...
... the sides: the Union vs The Confederacy Anaconda Strategy Peace Democrats aka Copperheads President Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greely, editor of the New York Tribune, on August 22, 1862: o “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slav ...
The 1850s: A Decade of Crisis
... They ceased to be a factor in national politics after the election of 1856. • The Republicans emerged in 1854. It was formed mostly by Northern Whigs and Democrats who called for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave law and for the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. ...
... They ceased to be a factor in national politics after the election of 1856. • The Republicans emerged in 1854. It was formed mostly by Northern Whigs and Democrats who called for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave law and for the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. ...
Top Five Causes of the Civil War
... This resulted in the idea of nullification, whereby the states would have the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional. The federal government denied states this right. However, proponents such as John C. Calhoun fought vehemently for nullification. When nullification would not work and states fe ...
... This resulted in the idea of nullification, whereby the states would have the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional. The federal government denied states this right. However, proponents such as John C. Calhoun fought vehemently for nullification. When nullification would not work and states fe ...
Origins of the American Civil War
Historians debating the origins of the American Civil War focus on the reasons why seven Southern states declared their secession from the United States (the Union), why they united to form the Confederate States of America (the ""Confederacy""), and why the North refused to let them go. The primary catalyst for secession was slavery, especially Southern anger at the attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Another explanation for secession, and the subsequent formation of the Confederacy, was Southern nationalism. The primary reason for the North to reject secession was to preserve the Union, a cause based on American nationalism. Most of the debate is about the first question, as to why the Southern states decided to secede.Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election without being on the ballot in ten of the Southern states. His victory triggered declarations of secession by seven slave states of the Deep South, whose economies were all based on cotton cultivated using slave labor. They formed the Confederate States of America before Lincoln took office. Nationalists (in the North and ""Unionists"" in the South) refused to recognize the declarations of secession. No foreign country's government ever recognized the Confederacy. The U.S. government under President James Buchanan refused to relinquish its forts that were in territory claimed by the Confederacy. The war itself began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, a major U.S. fortress in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.As a panel of historians emphasized in 2011, ""while slavery and its various and multifaceted discontents were the primary cause of disunion, it was disunion itself that sparked the war."" Pulitzer Prize winning author David Potter wrote, ""The problem for Americans who, in the age of Lincoln, wanted slaves to be free was not simply that southerners wanted the opposite, but that they themselves cherished a conflicting value: they wanted the Constitution, which protected slavery, to be honored, and the Union, which had fellowship with slaveholders, to be preserved. Thus they were committed to values that could not logically be reconciled."" Other important factors were partisan politics, abolitionism, Southern nationalism, Northern nationalism, expansionism, economics and modernization in the Antebellum period.