Transcript of The Civil War Taught by : Alison Garaspe Alicia Alameda Sarah Ann Valentini The Civil War By: Sarah...
The Civil War
Taught by : Alison Garaspe Alicia Alameda
Sarah Ann Valentini
The Civil War
By: Sarah Ann Valentni Alison Gorospe Alicia Alameda
Sectionalism :
The greater loyalty that many Americans felt toward their own section than to the county as a whole.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin : book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showing the evils of slavery.
Missouri Compromise:
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state; prohibited slavery in the lands of Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border (36 30')
Compromise of 1850:
Clay's plan to keep the balance between free and slave states.
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Fugitive Slave Law:required northers to return runaway slaves
Kansas-Nebraska Act: allowed
settlers to decide by popular sovereignty whether they wanted
slavery.
Dred-Scott v. Sandford:African Americans are not citizens and have no rights; Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
John Brown's Raid:slave revolt at Harper's Ferry
Republican Party:formed in opposition of spreading slavery to
new territories
Abraham Lincoln :elected in 1860( 16th President)
There was Secession for the Southto leave the
Union
Fort Sumterstarted the Civil War
*Confederate*favored slavery*felt they were fighting a second *war of independence*made living from small farms and plantations*wanted to lower taxes on goods*believed in states' rights
SOUTH
*Union*Opposed slavery*Felt they were fighting a war to free the slaves*Made living from factories and trade*Wanted to higher taxes on Europeans
goods so Southerners would buy Northern
products*Believed that the Union must be saved above all else