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Causes of the CW
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What were the three parts of the Missouri compromise | Missouri would enter union as a slave state, Maine would enter the union as a free state, 30 parallel line would be free territory. |
| How did the Missouri compromise lead to the civil war | By adding more states to the Union, they were adding more people to further the arguing over slavery |
| What year was the Missouri compromise passed? | 1820 |
| What state did the Compromise of 1850 allow to enter the union free? | California |
| What did the Compromise of 1850 give Utah and New Mexico | The right to choose if they wanted to be free or slave states |
| What did the compromise of 1850 establish the border between | Texas- New Mexico |
| What did the Compromise of 1850 amend | The Fugitive Slave Act |
| How did the compromise of 1850 lead to the civil war | When California entered the Union it upset the balance between free and slave states. Thus, ending the status quo of trying to keep it equal. |
| Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published | 1851, first novel to sell over a million copies |
| Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin written | To show the people in the North how bad slavery really was. |
| How did the Uncle Tom's Cabin lead to the civil war | This made a larger divide in the outlook on slavery. (sectionalism) |
| The Kansas Nebraska Act | It split the land into Kansas and Nebraska. It allowed them to choose to be free or slave states. (popular sovereignty) |
| How did the Kansas- Nebraska Act lead to the Civil War | Fighting broke out in Kansas when people went there to vote on whether they would be free or slave territories. Caused more sectionalism and tensions to rise. |
| When did the Dred Scott trial take place | 1857 |
| What was Dred Scott trying to do | Sue his master for his freedom, because he had been to a free state with his master and he wasn't considered free |
| What was the result of the Dred Scott decision | The Supreme Court said that he shouldn't have been allowed to present his case because he wasn't a citizen, he was considered property, the northern abolitionists were outraged by the ruling. Missouri compromise was unconstitutional |
| How did the Dred Scott decision lead to the civil war | The court case Dred Scott v. Sandford fueled tensions between the North and the South that eventually led to the American Civil War |
| What was the main cause of the civil war? | The secession of the south |
| John Tyler | Established that when a president dies the VP will take his place, wants to expand the country in the south, Annexation of Texas |
| James Polk | 1/4 of the country is added during his presidency, 54 forty or fight--> added oregon territory, completes all goals he sought out to do. |
| Zachary Taylor | Southerner who didn't want slavery to go to new territories added |
| Millard Fillmore | Whig party-- he supported and signed into the law the compromise of 1850, California is admitted as a free state |
| Bleeding Kansas | Violence erupted when pro-slavery and anti-slavery rushed to kansas to vote on the slave or free state issue, 55 people killed |
| The Confederate States of America | 1860- South Carolina secedes from the Union, 6 other states followed, in 1861 met in Alabama and established the Confederate States of America (the seceding of the 10 states) |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president, assassinated. Opposed the expansion of slavery, promised not to interfere with it in states in which it's legal. President during Civil War. Emancipation Proclamation |
| Republican Party | Opposed the expansion of slavery, they wouldn't interfere in states where it's legal, appealed to northern businessmen because they would protect tariffs. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Lincoln gave land grants and cash loans to get this done. Wanted to connect West to East coast. To make transport of goods easier. |
| Homestead Act | Provided for the settlement of western lands, to encourage people to move to the west. |
| Second Great Awakening | Protestant religious revival during 1800s. Spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching. |
| Reform Movement | Lead by mostly women, reforms began as a way to change societal issues at the time (educational reform, temperance, abolition, women's rights, prison reform) |
| How was James Polk able to complete Manifest Destiny? | War with Mexico (Acquisition of the Oregon Territory, California, and the Territory of New Mexico), settled the border with Canada 54-40 or fight. Settled border between Mexico and Texas(Rio Grande river is the dividing point) |
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