Antebellum Flashcards
What are the two economies of the antebellum and where are they located?
North) relied on free labor manufacturing
South) Reliant on slavery
What is the free soil movement?
Containment of slave statehood.
Why did the north believe slavery was incompatible with free labor?
Slaves took away jobs from white men.
Name 3 attics abolitionists used
1) Underground Railroad
2) Violence (John Brown’s Raid)
3) Natural/Moral rights argument
Name 3 tactics to defend slavery
1) Racial doctrines (blacks are savages)
2) Slavery is a “positive good” (Calhoun)
3) Constitution and property rights (As ruled by Dread Scott)
Wilmot Proviso
An attempt to ban slavery in the Mexican cession.
Did not pass the senate
Dread Scott v Sanford
Blacks cannot sue because they are not citizens.
Blacks are protected property nation wide.
Congress could not regulate slavery in territories.
Explain 4 things the compromise of 1850 did
1) California is a free state
2) Slave trade is abolished in DC
3) Popular sovereignty in Mexican session
4) Stricter fugitive slave enforcement
Kansas and Nebraska Act
Allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
Why did the Whigs party die?
Lack of uniformity over slavery and immigration.
What was Lincoln’s platform in 1860?
Nonextension of slavery.
What is the relevance of the Election of 1860?
Lincoln wins, but without a SINGLE vote from the south or slave owning states.
Immediate cause of civil war.
South felt they had no power in the union.
How does South Carolina in the Antebellum Era reflect the domino theory?
Much like the domino theory towards communism, if the Mexican cession becomes a slave or free state then all the dominos fall in that direction. The state of the union would collapse, much like if the spread of communism in different countries around the world
