Lesson 16.1
... • Most of these, including Fort Sumter in South Carolina, were still manned by Union troops. • These forts would soon need to be resupplied. ...
... • Most of these, including Fort Sumter in South Carolina, were still manned by Union troops. • These forts would soon need to be resupplied. ...
Lead up to Civil War
... – Delegates to Montgomery Alabama • organized themselves as the C.S. of A. • Jefferson Davis - President ( Mississippi) ...
... – Delegates to Montgomery Alabama • organized themselves as the C.S. of A. • Jefferson Davis - President ( Mississippi) ...
Jefferson Davis - Dr. Lodge McCammon
... For economic reasons. The slaves were the manpower for growing all the Southern cash crops. Explain why the South is not equally represented in Congress: The 3/5ths Law stated that every 5 slaves = 3 people (for the purposes of representation in Congress). So, the south's power in Congress kept slip ...
... For economic reasons. The slaves were the manpower for growing all the Southern cash crops. Explain why the South is not equally represented in Congress: The 3/5ths Law stated that every 5 slaves = 3 people (for the purposes of representation in Congress). So, the south's power in Congress kept slip ...
Changing the Rules? Leaving the Game? Nullification, Secession
... conceded these territories to the newly independent Confederacy. The war would have become an “international conflict,” not a “civil war,” but it would have occurred nonetheless. Further, if the slave states could justify secession based on an inherent right of self-determination,47 then surely the ...
... conceded these territories to the newly independent Confederacy. The war would have become an “international conflict,” not a “civil war,” but it would have occurred nonetheless. Further, if the slave states could justify secession based on an inherent right of self-determination,47 then surely the ...
Causes of the WTBS - SCV California Division
... “My lovely wife. I do miss you and the life we have there on the small plot of land God has given us. More and more it seems that my thoughts are drifting back there to reside with you. Yet as badly as I desire to be back home, it is for home for which I deem it best for my presence here with the ot ...
... “My lovely wife. I do miss you and the life we have there on the small plot of land God has given us. More and more it seems that my thoughts are drifting back there to reside with you. Yet as badly as I desire to be back home, it is for home for which I deem it best for my presence here with the ot ...
H.R. No. 845 82R14841 MMS-D By: Branch H.R. No. 845
... WHEREAS, The following year, the fear that Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party might capture the presidency and threaten the institution of slavery gave further momentum to the secessionist movement in the South; Sam Houston understood that disunion would provoke a lengthy war, one the South wo ...
... WHEREAS, The following year, the fear that Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party might capture the presidency and threaten the institution of slavery gave further momentum to the secessionist movement in the South; Sam Houston understood that disunion would provoke a lengthy war, one the South wo ...
Week 14
... • Lincoln’s election would destroy this control • A secessionist from Georgia told southern nonslave holders that if Lincoln were in power • “in TEN years or less our CHILDREN will be the slaves of negroes” ...
... • Lincoln’s election would destroy this control • A secessionist from Georgia told southern nonslave holders that if Lincoln were in power • “in TEN years or less our CHILDREN will be the slaves of negroes” ...
H.C.R. No. 150 82R16094 JNC-D By: Branch H.C.R. No. 150
... 258,000, and slavery as an institution was essentially dead; and WHEREAS, In his biography of Sam Houston, one historian was reminded of an observation made by the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, who "wrote that the mark of a great man is his ability to tell the people of his era what their will ...
... 258,000, and slavery as an institution was essentially dead; and WHEREAS, In his biography of Sam Houston, one historian was reminded of an observation made by the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, who "wrote that the mark of a great man is his ability to tell the people of his era what their will ...
the Age of Jackson Notes
... - They could not have their own govt. within the nation’s borders - Georgia and other Southern states passed laws that gave them the right to take over NA, land, after the discovery of gold. - Indian Removal Act (1830) – act called for the govt. to negotiate treaties that would require Americans to ...
... - They could not have their own govt. within the nation’s borders - Georgia and other Southern states passed laws that gave them the right to take over NA, land, after the discovery of gold. - Indian Removal Act (1830) – act called for the govt. to negotiate treaties that would require Americans to ...
Secession in North Carolina—A Lesson Plan
... sufficient cause for secession. The debate continued until April 15, 1861. On that date, following the April 12 firing on Fort Sumter, Gov. John W. Ellis received a telegram from Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s secretary of war. The telegram, which was sent to all states still in the Union, asked for two r ...
... sufficient cause for secession. The debate continued until April 15, 1861. On that date, following the April 12 firing on Fort Sumter, Gov. John W. Ellis received a telegram from Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s secretary of war. The telegram, which was sent to all states still in the Union, asked for two r ...
Hancock International College
... The American Civil War The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds ...
... The American Civil War The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds ...
Events Leading to Civil War
... and did not have the __________________________________ in the first place. • This made Northern __________________________________ because it meant that slave owners could keep their slaves in any state, while Southern __________________________________ with the decision. Election of 1860 • In 1854 ...
... and did not have the __________________________________ in the first place. • This made Northern __________________________________ because it meant that slave owners could keep their slaves in any state, while Southern __________________________________ with the decision. Election of 1860 • In 1854 ...
THEIR MEMORY WILL NOT PERISH
... For the Confederacy, the number of African Americans donning a uniform under the rebel flag is unknown. In March 1865, the Confederate congress authorized the enlistment of up to 300,000 slaves for military service but mentioned nothing about offering freedom for their service. The following month, ...
... For the Confederacy, the number of African Americans donning a uniform under the rebel flag is unknown. In March 1865, the Confederate congress authorized the enlistment of up to 300,000 slaves for military service but mentioned nothing about offering freedom for their service. The following month, ...
Mississippi History Chapter 5 Powerpoint
... This meant that controlling the Mississippi River was paramount By controlling the Mississippi River, the North could cut off western supply routes and stop shipping to and from the South Vicksburg was the key To take Vicksburg the Union had to first drive forces out of north Ms General Ulysses S. G ...
... This meant that controlling the Mississippi River was paramount By controlling the Mississippi River, the North could cut off western supply routes and stop shipping to and from the South Vicksburg was the key To take Vicksburg the Union had to first drive forces out of north Ms General Ulysses S. G ...
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... possessed unlimited sovereignty over slavery seemed calculated to abet slavery’s transgression of its traditional bounds. Many Northerners realized that these arguments negated the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which to them was a sacred cow. Given slaveholders’ mania for state sovereignty, Represent ...
... possessed unlimited sovereignty over slavery seemed calculated to abet slavery’s transgression of its traditional bounds. Many Northerners realized that these arguments negated the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which to them was a sacred cow. Given slaveholders’ mania for state sovereignty, Represent ...
Jacksonian Democracy
... said “John Marshall has made his ruling, now let him enforce it” Trail of tears Most Cherokees ignore the resettlement order and were left alone until 1838 (after Jackson left office) Then US Army forcibly removed 15,000 Cherokees from Georgia and forced them to march from Georgia to Oklahoma/ ...
... said “John Marshall has made his ruling, now let him enforce it” Trail of tears Most Cherokees ignore the resettlement order and were left alone until 1838 (after Jackson left office) Then US Army forcibly removed 15,000 Cherokees from Georgia and forced them to march from Georgia to Oklahoma/ ...
Unit 4: The Young Republic
... 6. “March to the Sea”: Sherman’s “total war that cuts the south in half (Burned down Atlanta) 7. Fall of Richmond (Burned) 8. Appomattox: Site of Lee’s surrender to Grant Key Civil War leaders and their roles 1. Abraham Lincoln: President of the United States during the Civil War, who insisted that ...
... 6. “March to the Sea”: Sherman’s “total war that cuts the south in half (Burned down Atlanta) 7. Fall of Richmond (Burned) 8. Appomattox: Site of Lee’s surrender to Grant Key Civil War leaders and their roles 1. Abraham Lincoln: President of the United States during the Civil War, who insisted that ...
The Hartford Convention - morganhighhistoryacademy.org
... the delegates in Hartford as “Marats, Dantons and Robespierres,” referring to influential French revolutionaries, his old rival John Adams managed to find something more or less favorable to say about them. They were “intelligent and honest men who had lost touch with reality,” Adams replied, while ...
... the delegates in Hartford as “Marats, Dantons and Robespierres,” referring to influential French revolutionaries, his old rival John Adams managed to find something more or less favorable to say about them. They were “intelligent and honest men who had lost touch with reality,” Adams replied, while ...
Chapter 10 - Section 5
... Arguments against Nullification *Daniel Webster gave the clearest argument against nullification. He argued the United States had not been formed by the states, but by the entire American people. *Both Webster and Jackson defended the Union over the states for this reason - that the power of the U.S ...
... Arguments against Nullification *Daniel Webster gave the clearest argument against nullification. He argued the United States had not been formed by the states, but by the entire American people. *Both Webster and Jackson defended the Union over the states for this reason - that the power of the U.S ...
The Dred Scott Decision Outrages the North
... Carolina seceded from the Union. Over the next several weeks, six more Southern states pulled out. Together they formed the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis as president. In his inaugural address, Lincoln declared that secession was both wrong and unconstitutional. He added that h ...
... Carolina seceded from the Union. Over the next several weeks, six more Southern states pulled out. Together they formed the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis as president. In his inaugural address, Lincoln declared that secession was both wrong and unconstitutional. He added that h ...
I. Introduction - Villa Walsh Academy
... a) Came from MA Senator Daniel Webster 1. Argued that the United States was not formed by the states, but by the entire ____________________________________________. 2. 1830 – on the floor of the Senate, Webster said, “We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.” ...
... a) Came from MA Senator Daniel Webster 1. Argued that the United States was not formed by the states, but by the entire ____________________________________________. 2. 1830 – on the floor of the Senate, Webster said, “We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.” ...
Causes of the Civil War
... had been admitted as a slave state, Missouri would have tipped the balance in the Senate toward slave states. Opponents of slavery wanted Missouri to eliminate the institution prior to being admitted as a state; proponents thought that was a matter for Missouri alone to decide. On March 3, 1820, the ...
... had been admitted as a slave state, Missouri would have tipped the balance in the Senate toward slave states. Opponents of slavery wanted Missouri to eliminate the institution prior to being admitted as a state; proponents thought that was a matter for Missouri alone to decide. On March 3, 1820, the ...
The Crucible of War 1861-1865
... firmness and conciliation toward the South - it also expressed his will to oppose secession and maintain unity of the Union • Lincoln’s strategy focused on (1) avoiding acts that might push the ‘Upper South’ [N. Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas] into seceding, and (2) reassuring the ...
... firmness and conciliation toward the South - it also expressed his will to oppose secession and maintain unity of the Union • Lincoln’s strategy focused on (1) avoiding acts that might push the ‘Upper South’ [N. Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas] into seceding, and (2) reassuring the ...
May 2014 Hutto Camp Newsletter - Major John C. Hutto, Camp #443
... passing, he remarked, “I can scarcely think about him without weeping.” Stuart would be remembered not only for his flamboyant uniform (which included a red-lined cape, golden spurs, and a plumed hat), but also for his skill as a cavalry commander and his ability to provide Lee with up-to-date intel ...
... passing, he remarked, “I can scarcely think about him without weeping.” Stuart would be remembered not only for his flamboyant uniform (which included a red-lined cape, golden spurs, and a plumed hat), but also for his skill as a cavalry commander and his ability to provide Lee with up-to-date intel ...
Abrahamson, James L. The Men of Secession and Civil War 1859
... significant internal struggles among the Border States and the secession of four additional Upper South states. This act of aggression by the Confederacy also led Lincoln to request 75,000 90-day militiamen for what he thought would be a threemonth war. Abrahamson did an excellent job presenting the ...
... significant internal struggles among the Border States and the secession of four additional Upper South states. This act of aggression by the Confederacy also led Lincoln to request 75,000 90-day militiamen for what he thought would be a threemonth war. Abrahamson did an excellent job presenting the ...