TIMELINE of EVENTS Mexican War to the Civil War Causes of the Civil War.
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Transcript of TIMELINE of EVENTS Mexican War to the Civil War Causes of the Civil War.
TIMELINE of
EVENTSMexican War to the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War
Starter 9/17Study for your test!
Pearl TestTake out vocabulary so that I can come by
and check it
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
Starter 9/19Find your test and correct it
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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