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

North