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History
Unit 3 Notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economy of the North: | (Industrial)---developed a system of factories that depended on trade with other countries |
| Labor force of the North: | depended on cheap immigrant labor |
| Economy of the South: | (Agricultural)---was made up of plantations and small farms that produced a cash crop |
| Labor force of the South: | depended on slave labor |
| Eli Whitney | (1796) invented the cotton gin |
| Antebellum Times: planter | someone who owned 20 or more slaves engaged in the production of a cash crop |
| Antebellum Times: Yeoman farmer | small farmers who mostly grew subsistance crops and had no slaves or just a few |
| Antebellum Times: overseer | someone hired to supervise the work of the slaves |
| Antebellum Times: slave codes | laws that regulated every aspect of a slave's life |
| Compromise of 1820 | worked out by the Great Compromiser Henry Clay |
| Compromise of 1820 | 1) Missouri was admitted as a slave state 2) Maine was admitted as a free state 3) slavery would be prohibited north of the 36-30 parallel line |
| Harriot Tubman | the most famous conductor of the underground railroad; she personally led over 300 people to freedom |
| underground railroad | 1) stations---safe places for runaway slaves to hide/rest 2) they are trying to escape as far north as possible |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay |
| Compromise of 1850 | 1) CA entered as a free state (North) 2) the remaining territories out west could choose for themselves on issue of slavery (South) 3) a stronger fugitive slave law was passed (South) 4) slave trade in Washington DC would end (North) |
| States Rights | Senator John C. Calhoun---wrote the South Carolina Exposition & Protest-----it protested tariffs |
| nullification | an individual state can declare a law passed by the federal gov't null & void; not binding (not used) on their state |
| succeed | to voluntarily withdraw from the Union |
| Abolitionist Movement | early 1800s-Civil War the anti-slavery movement that wanted to end slavery everywhere in the US |
| William Lloyd Garrison | he published the anti-slavery newspaper called the Liverator |
| Fredrick Douglas | the most famous speaker of the Abolitionist Movement |
| Harriot Beecher Stowe | she published the controversial Uncle Tom's Cabin (evils of slavery) |
| Republican Party (1854) | stop the expansion of slavery into the territories |
| Election of 1856 | Democratic Candidate----James Buchanan (won) Republican Candidate----John C. Fremont |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) | established that these 2 territories would be allowed to decide on the issue of slavery themselves |
| Dred Scott | Supreme Court said that slaves were property and couldn't sue someone in court |
| John Brown's Raid (1859) | he led a group of abolitionists & attacked the arsenal in Harpers Ferry Virginia PURPOSE: start slave rebellion |
| Election of 1860 | 1) Republican---Abraham Lincoln (won) 2) Democrat---Stephen Douglas 3) Southern Democrat---John C. Breckenridge 4) Constitutional Union Party---John Bell |
| In early 1861, 7 states left the Union and formed the Confederate Sates of America | SC, MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX |
| President of Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
| 1st capital of Confederate States of America | Montgomery, AL |
| in April 1861, the upper south left the Union | VA, TN, NC, AR |
| where was the capital of the Confederate States of America moved to? | Richmond, VA |
| Confederate Constitution | 1) guaranteed the right to own slaves 2) protected the individual rights of the states |
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